Skill official devops
Risk level
low
20/100

Azure Cost ↗

Azure Cost is an officially published skill from Microsoft. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

network:outbound credentials:access

Analysis summary

Azure Cost is an officially published skill from Microsoft. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

Manages Azure spend — forecasting, attributing cost to resources, and identifying waste such as idle capacity and oversized instances.

It reads billing APIs with cloud credentials over the network, so it declares outbound network and credential access, but performs no writes. That read-only shape makes it one of the safer cloud skills: the worst case is that billing data, which describes your architecture and scale in some detail, enters a model context. For most organisations that is an acceptable trade for finding the idle cluster nobody remembered.

Why this entry scored 20 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is officially published, trust adjusts the score by -40. Declared high-risk capabilities add +10 (capped at +30). It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 20, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

  • Published by the vendor Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -40
  • 1 high-risk capability: credentials:access High
    Contribution to score: +10

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.
  • credentials:access Credentials access
    Reads provider API keys, OAuth tokens, or other secrets from the host keychain or environment.