Azure pricing skill

[rahulbats]

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Description

this is to add a new skill to estimate azure costs

Type of Contribution

• New instruction file.
• New prompt file.
• New agent file.
• New plugin.
• New skill file.
• New agentic workflow.
• Update to existing instruction, prompt, agent, plugin, skill, or workflow.
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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new Azure Pricing skill to the skills catalog, intended to guide agents in fetching Azure Retail Prices API data and turning it into cost estimates with supporting reference material.

Changes:

• Introduces skills/azure-pricing/SKILL.md with step-by-step instructions, filter guidance, and response parsing notes for the Azure Retail Prices API.
• Adds bundled reference docs for region names, service names, and cost estimation formulas under skills/azure-pricing/references/.
• Registers the new skill in docs/README.skills.md.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
skills/azure-pricing/SKILL.md	New skill instructions for querying Azure Retail Prices API and producing cost estimates.
skills/azure-pricing/references/SERVICE-NAMES.md	Reference mapping of common Azure services to serviceName values.
skills/azure-pricing/references/REGIONS.md	Reference mapping of display region names to armRegionName.
skills/azure-pricing/references/COST-ESTIMATOR.md	Reference formulas/templates for monthly/annual cost estimation.
docs/README.skills.md	Adds azure-pricing to the skills index with bundled assets listed.

[aaronpowell]

Can you add this to the azure-cloud-development plugin? I think that'd be a good item to include in the plugin.

And just to make sure I correctly understand - it is intended to create an API call to the pricing calculator to ensure the correct prices are available to the agent, the info in the COST-ESTIMATOR.md is more to guide the model on how to form things correct?

[rahulbats]

Can you add this to the azure-cloud-development plugin? I think that'd be a good item to include in the plugin.
Done
And just to make sure I correctly understand - it is intended to create an API call to the pricing calculator to ensure the correct prices are available to the agent, the info in the COST-ESTIMATOR.md is more to guide the model on how to form things correct?
thats right. also added skills for copilot cost estimation