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Azure Pricing Skill for GitHub Copilot Using Azure MCP

19th March 2026 by Thomas Thornton

How I built the azure-pricing skill for GitHub Copilot, using Azure MCP and the Azure Retail Prices API to bring live Azure pricing into architecture and engineering workflows.

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Categories Agentic AI, Azure, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Azure Tags Agentic AI, Azure, Azure Architecture, Azure Pricing, Cost Optimisation, DevOps, FinOps, GitHub Copilot, MCP, Platform Engineering Leave a comment

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