# azure

This plugin adds Azure skills plus Azure MCP Server and Foundry MCP. Use it to inspect resources, validate deployments, diagnose infrastructure, and work with Foundry models.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 1599
- Author: microsoft
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/azure

## What it does

The plugin gives Claude Code guided Azure workflows for preparing and validating deployments, troubleshooting, monitoring, quotas, cost checks, Kubernetes, storage, messaging, RBAC, and AI services. Its skill set includes items such as `azure-prepare`, `azure-validate`, `azure-deploy`, `azure-diagnostics`, and `azure-cost`.

Azure MCP Server supplies 200+ structured tools covering 40+ Azure services. The agent can inspect resource inventories, look up prices, query logs, and carry out live Azure operations. Foundry MCP covers model discovery, deployments, and agent workflows in Microsoft Foundry. You need an Azure account or subscription, Node.js 18+ with `npx` on `PATH`, and an authenticated `az login`; deployment workflows also use `azd auth login`. Without those credentials, the MCP tools cannot reach Azure.

## Requirements
- Works with: Azure

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install azure@claude-plugins-official
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install azure@claude-community
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
```

## When to use it
- validate an application before deploying it to Azure
- inspect Azure resources and related logs
- diagnose infrastructure failures
- review compute costs and possible savings
- deploy models and manage agents in Microsoft Foundry

## Example prompts
- Check this application for Azure deployment issues and report what must be fixed.
- List the Azure resources in this subscription and inspect their related logs.
- Review the current compute spend and suggest lower-cost Azure options.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# 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:

- **Skills** teach the agent when to use Azure workflows and what to avoid.
- **MCP tools** let the agent act on live Azure and Foundry resources.
- **The plugin** keeps the guidance layer and execution layer aligned in one install.
- **Multi-host support** lets you use the same Azure capability across environments such as GitHub Copilot in VS Code, Copilot CLI, Claude Code, and other compatible hosts.

## What you get

| Component | What it adds | Examples |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Azure skills** | Azure expertise, workflows, and guardrails | Prepare, validate, deploy, diagnostics, cost, AI, RBAC |
| **Azure MCP Server** | Live Azure tooling | Resource inventory, monitoring, pricing, storage, databases, messaging |
| **Foundry MCP** | Microsoft Foundry workflows | Model catalog, deployments, agents, evaluations |

The plugin payload lives in `.github/plugins/azure-skills/`, and the included MCP configuration shows how Azure and Foundry connectivity are wired for compatible hosts.

## Install in 60 seconds

### Prerequisites

Before you install, make sure you have:

- An Azure account or subscription
- **Node.js 18+** available on your PATH (`npx` is used to start the MCP servers)
- **Azure CLI** installed and authenticated with `az login`
- **Azure Developer CLI** installed and authenticated with `azd auth login` if you plan to use deployment workflows

### APM (one install, multiple harnesses)

The Azure Skills Plugin is multi-harness. If you use [APM](https://github.com/microsoft/apm), one command installs it across GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, and Gemini from a single `apm.yml`:

```bash
apm install microsoft/azure-skills
```

### GitHub Copilot CLI

**Add the marketplace** (first time only):

```
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills
```

**Install the plugin**:

```
/plugin install azure@azure-skills
```

**Update the plugin**:

```
/plugin update azure@azure-skills
```

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