Add Azure OpenAI Fine-Tuning Cost Advisor prompt template

[BethanyJep]

Pull Request Checklist

• I have read and followed the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.
• My contribution adds a new instruction, prompt, agent, skill, or workflow file in the correct directory.
• The file follows the required naming convention.
• The content is clearly structured and follows the example format.
• I have tested my instructions, prompt, agent, skill, or workflow with GitHub Copilot.
• I have run npm start and verified that README.md is up to date.

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Description

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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.
• Other (please specify):

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adds an "Azure OpenAI Fine-Tuning Cost Advisor" resource to help users understand fine-tuning costs for Azure OpenAI models. The advisor provides a conversational consultation experience using progressive questioning to understand user requirements, then recommends appropriate models and pricing tiers while fetching current pricing from Microsoft documentation via MCP.

Changes:

• Adds a new consultant agent that provides Azure OpenAI fine-tuning cost advice through conversational interaction
• Updates documentation to reference the new resource

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
instructions/finetuning-cost-advisor.instructions.md	New consultant agent with conversational flow, progressive discovery questions, cost calculation formulas, and model recommendations (misclassified as instruction file)
docs/README.instructions.md	Adds entry for the new resource in the instructions documentation table

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

instructions/finetuning-cost-advisor.instructions.md:88

• Duplicate instruction: Line 88 repeats the same instruction from line 39 about referring to the Azure OpenAI pricing page. This redundancy should be removed to improve clarity and maintainability.

1. **refer to the Azure OpenAI** pricing page at - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-openai/  to get the most up-to-date information on fine-tuning costs

[Copilot]

This file appears to be misclassified as an instruction file. Based on its content and structure, it should be an agent file (.agent.md) rather than an instruction file (.instructions.md).

Instructions are coding standards/guidelines that apply to specific file patterns (e.g., Python files, TypeScript files). They use an 'applyTo' field to specify which files they affect.

Agents are specialized personas/consultants that provide domain-specific assistance through conversation. This "Azure OpenAI Fine-Tuning Cost Advisor" is clearly a consultant agent that provides advice through progressive questioning, not a set of coding standards that apply to specific file types.

Compare with similar agents in the repository like 'azure-principal-architect.agent.md' which also provides consultation services. This file should be renamed to 'finetuning-cost-advisor.agent.md' and moved to the agents/ directory, with corresponding updates to the README reference.

[Copilot]

Capitalization inconsistency: "refer" should be capitalized to "Refer" to match the formatting of other bullet points in this list where the action verb is capitalized and bolded.

This issue also appears on line 88 of the same file.

[aaronpowell]

it looks like you've branched off the main branch, not staged meaning you have all the materialised plugin files.

You can fix this with:

git fetch origin staged
git rebase --onto origin/staged origin/main <your branch name>
git push --force-with-lease

Or by using the script npm run plugin:clean