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azure — Agent Skill

by microsoft · Updated

Transform Claude into an Azure expert. This plugin integrates the Azure MCP server and specialized Azure skills to move beyond generic advice. It enables Claude to perform real-world tasks: listing resources, validating deployments, diagnosing infrastructure issues, and optimizing costs across 50+ Azure services.

At a glance

azure is an Agent Skill by microsoft in the Automation & Workflow category. In Claude Code it installs with `/plugin install azure@claude-plugins-official` after adding the anthropics/claude-plugins-official marketplace; other assistants use its SKILL.md instructions as rules. Its source repository has 1,602 GitHub stars (as of Oct 28, 2026).

Source 1.6kGitHub stars

How to install azure in your AI client

Setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code — copy-paste ready.

How to install azure in Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic CLI

  1. Add the marketplace

    claude
    /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official

  2. Install the skill

    claude
    /plugin install azure@claude-plugins-official

  3. Use it

    These are slash commands for a Claude Code session, not your shell. Claude auto-invokes the skill when your request matches its description — or type its slash command if it exposes one.

Documentation

Full README

Azure Skills Plugin

Azure work is not just a code problem. It is a decision problem: which service fits this app, what needs to be validated before deployment, which tools should run, and what guardrails matter. The Azure Skills Plugin packages Azure expertise and MCP-backed execution together so compatible coding agents can do real Azure work instead of giving generic cloud advice.

[Explore the Azure Skills site](https://microsoft.github.io/azure-skills/) [Landing page maintenance guide](landing-page/README.md)

[Install the plugin](#install-in-60-seconds)

One install, three layers of capability

Azure skills: the brain

This plugin ships curated Azure skills that teach an agent how Azure work gets done. They provide workflows, decision trees, and guardrails for scenarios such as:

  • Build, deploy, and evolve with azure-prepare, azure-validate, azure-deploy, azure-upgrade, azure-enterprise-infra-planner, azure-hosted-copilot-sdk, azure-kubernetes, and airunway-aks-setup
  • Troubleshoot, monitor, and govern with azure-diagnostics, appinsights-instrumentation, azure-compliance, azure-resource-lookup, and azure-quotas
  • Optimize architecture and cost with azure-cost, azure-compute, azure-resource-visualizer, and azure-cloud-migrate
  • Work across data, AI, identity, and platform services with azure-ai, azure-aigateway, azure-storage, azure-kusto, azure-messaging, azure-rbac, entra-app-registration, and microsoft-foundry

Azure MCP Server: the hands

The plugin wires in the Azure MCP Server, which gives your agent 200+ structured tools across 40+ Azure services. That is the execution layer for listing resources, checking prices, querying logs, diagnosing issues, and driving real Azure workflows.

Foundry MCP: the AI specialist

The plugin also includes Foundry MCP for Microsoft Foundry scenarios such as model discovery, model deployment, and agent workflows.

Why this plugin is different

This is not a prompt pack. It is a packaged Azure capability layer:

Excerpt — the full document is on GitHub.

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