Azure Advisor

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Use Azure Advisor. WHEN: "show recommendations", "top Advisor actions", "prioritize recommendations", "service retirements", "update status". DO NOT USE FOR: fixes (use azure-advisor-actionability).

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Azure Advisor provides a structured way to interact with Azure cloud recommendations, including cost optimization, security, and service lifecycle management. This skill facilitates the retrieval of recommendation summaries, prioritized action lists, and metadata, while also supporting state updates for recommendations. It is designed to help users identify critical infrastructure improvements without performing the actual remediation, which is handled by a separate actionability skill.

What it does

Summarizes Azure recommendations by category or priority
Lists individual recommendations and affected resources
Retrieves metadata for recommendation types
Updates the status of recommendations (complete, dismiss, postpone, reactivate)
Filters recommendations by specific categories like Cost or Service Retirement

When to use it

When you need to see a summary of top-priority Azure recommendations
When identifying resources affected by upcoming service retirements
When you need to group or filter recommendations to prioritize cloud maintenance
When checking the status or details of specific recommendation types

Advantages

Provides structured access to Azure Advisor data
Supports prioritized views for critical infrastructure tasks
Enables lifecycle management of recommendations
Maintains clear separation between advisory insights and remediation actions

Usage examples

“Show me the top priority recommendations for cost savings.”: The agent uses the advisor_recommendation_summary tool with prioritized: true and category: Cost to display the most impactful financial optimization opportunities.
“List all service retirements happening before 2025-01-01.”: The agent queries the advisor_recommendation_summary with the appropriate sub-category and date filter to provide a list of relevant service retirement notices.

Install

Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/microsoft/azure-advisor/download

Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip azure-advisor.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Microsoft

Quick reference

Prefer Azure Advisor MCP tools. Use their current schemas for parameters and limits; discover unfamiliar parameters rather than inventing them.

Intent	Tool
Counts, totals, breakdowns, or distributions	`advisor_recommendation_summary`; non-prioritized, with the requested `group-by`
Broad priorities: top recommendations/actions, most important, critical, or fix-first advice	`advisor_recommendation_summary`; `prioritized: true` (automatically groups by recommendation type)
Individual recommendations or affected resources, including status-filtered records	`advisor_recommendation_list`; no prior summary required; for priority ordering within a known type, pass `recommendation-type-id` and `prioritized: true`
Complete, dismiss, postpone, or reactivate	`advisor_recommendation_update`
Browse recommendation types	`advisor_metadata_list`
Get one type by ID	`advisor_metadata_get`
Fix or remediate a recommendation	`azure-advisor-actionability` skill; it owns remediation tool calls and safeguards

Workflow

Reuse known scope and identifiers. Pass the requested count as top: groups for summary, records for list. "Critical" means priority, not an impact value.
For savings priorities, use category: "Cost". Top retirements use prioritized summary, not list, with sub-category: "ServiceUpgradeAndRetirement" and retirement-date: "le:<yyyy-MM-dd>" for on-or-before cutoffs.
For drill-downs, preserve scope and filters; pass the selected recommendation-type group's actual GUID key as list recommendation-type-id. Retain prioritized: true after a prioritized summary and add category: "Cost" for a Cost type. Do not copy summary top to list.
If broad priorities require status or tracking-ids, explain that cross-type ranking is unavailable. Use filtered, non-prioritized list and explicitly label results unranked, not "top". Never silently drop unsupported constraints.
Present returned data in server ranking order; disclose errors and truncation. Never count a capped list or filter capped results to simulate a server-side date query.

"Top actions" and "what should I fix first?" ask for prioritization advice, not permission to remediate.

Safety

Ask for and wait for user confirmation before recommendation-state updates. The actionability skill owns remediation safeguards.

Files

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LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer1.1 KiB
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Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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