Azure Advisor

Before you start: read this whole install prompt, tell me in a few lines what this skill does and what installing it involves, and wait for my go-ahead before you do anything else. Prerequisites: Paid Azure usage, disclosed up front: using this skill requires an Azure account with access to an Azure subscription (your Azure resources and subscription are billed by Microsoft under your own Azure agreement; Azure Advisor itself works on your subscription data). It also requires an agent host that exposes the Azure Advisor MCP tools, signed in to that Azure account: those tools read recommendation data from your subscription and, only after your confirmation, send recommendation status updates (complete, dismiss, postpone or reactivate) back to Azure for your subscription. No separate API key is set up by the skill, and nothing is sent during installation itself; the only install download is the skill file from GitHub at the pinned commit. Without an Azure subscription and the MCP tools, the skill cannot retrieve anything. Install "Azure Advisor" for me. Use Azure Advisor recommendations from an agent host that exposes the Azure Advisor MCP tools. The skill prefers those tools over Resource Graph or generic ARM tools and routes each intent: summary for counts, breakdowns and rankings, list for individual recommendations and affected resources, update to complete, dismiss, postpone or reactivate a recommendation, metadata tools to browse types, and a remediation lookup that hands fixes to the companion azure-advisor-actionability skill. It works at subscription or service group scope (resource group scope needs a subscription), reuses known scope and identifiers, never counts a capped list, and presents only returned data, including truncation, access limits and errors. Status updates need confirmation first. Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills (the skill is the whole .github/plugins/azure-advisor/skills/azure-advisor/ folder at the pinned commit: SKILL.md) Pinned version: install the code at commit cf79ce8778ad063eeac19dbe8bf982d71b466ce0 exactly. Do not substitute a newer version. If this commit is unreachable, stop and tell me. 1. Clone https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills into a temporary folder, check out commit cf79ce8778ad063eeac19dbe8bf982d71b466ce0, and copy the .github/plugins/azure-advisor/skills/azure-advisor/ folder from that checkout. Then compare every file in the folder with the fingerprints recorded for this listing on 2026-10-18: [FINGERPRINTS] - SKILL.md: SHA-256 9c3a5bc090a87be502443132a174f1032efa5c6d439bf14c437657ca1128dfc3 If a file does not match, it changed since the listing was prepared: do not install it yet, tell me what you found and let me decide. 2. Read SKILL.md in full (and every other file in the folder) and tell me in plain words: what the skill does when used, which services it connects to, whether it reads or sends any personal information or keys, and anything that seems unusual. Stop on any red flag and tell me before going further. Confirm these points from the files: - The skill folder holds one file only: SKILL.md. There is no executable code, no script and no companion file: all data access goes through the host advertised Azure Advisor MCP tools named in the table. - Nothing is sent anywhere during installation itself; the only download is the skill file from GitHub at the pinned commit. - At use time the MCP tools read recommendation data from your own Azure subscription, and a status update is sent to Azure only after confirmation, as SKILL.md requires. The skill says to present only returned data, with truncation, access limitations and errors. - Fixes and remediation are out of scope here: SKILL.md routes them to the companion azure-advisor-actionability skill. 3. When I say "yes, install", install it as a skill: copy the whole folder into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "azure-advisor", keeping every file (SKILL.md). 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (for example: sign in or create an account, provide any API key, or install any local tool named in the prerequisites; using the skill is a separate step that only starts when I ask for it, and every paid or authenticated use disclosed above happens only then). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.