# azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet

Equips AI coding agents to write .NET code for Azure API Center using the official Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter management SDK.

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## What it does

This skill guides coding agents through managing Azure API Center via the .NET management library. It covers the hierarchy under Azure Resource Manager: initializing services, configuring workspaces, registering APIs, handling versions, and setting deployment targets.

All examples use `Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter` version 1.0.0 alongside `Azure.Identity` authentication. The instructions detail importing OpenAPI specifications inline from local files and exporting existing schemas. To run the generated C# code against live infrastructure, you must supply `AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID`, `AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP`, and `AZURE_APICENTER_SERVICE_NAME` in your environment.

## Requirements
- Works with: Azure

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet/

### Codex

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- File: `.agents/skills/azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

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### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install microsoft/skills azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/microsoft/skills --path .github/plugins/azure-sdk-dotnet/skills/azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

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**Claude.ai**
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## When to use it
- provision an Azure API Center service using C#
- import OpenAPI contracts into API definitions
- organize services across workspaces and lifecycle stages
- export API specifications from the inventory

## Example prompts
- Write C# code to import a local OpenAPI specification into Azure API Center.
- Create an Azure API Center service and workspace using Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter.
- Show how to define a new API version with production lifecycle stage in .NET.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet
description: |
  Azure API Center SDK for .NET. Centralized API inventory management with governance, versioning, and discovery. Use for creating API services, workspaces, APIs, versions, definitions, environments, deployments, and metadata schemas. Triggers: "API Center", "ApiCenterService", "ApiCenterWorkspace", "ApiCenterApi", "API inventory", "API governance", "API versioning", "API catalog", "API discovery".
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Microsoft
  version: "1.0.0"
  package: Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter
---

# Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter (.NET)

Centralized API inventory and governance SDK for managing APIs across your organization.

## Installation

```bash
dotnet add package Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter
dotnet add package Azure.Identity
```

**Current Version**: v1.0.0 (GA)  
**API Version**: 2024-03-01

## Environment Variables

```bash
AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=<your-subscription-id>  # Required: Azure subscription ID
AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP=<your-resource-group>  # Required: resource group name
AZURE_APICENTER_SERVICE_NAME=<your-apicenter-service>  # Required: API Center service name
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod  # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production
```

## Authentication

```csharp
using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter;

// Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential. Production: set AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod or AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=<specific_credential>
var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential(
    DefaultAzureCredential.DefaultEnvironmentVariableName
);
// Or use a specific credential directly in production:
// See https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-dotnet#credential-classes
// var credential = new ManagedIdentityCredential();
ArmClient client = new ArmClient(credential);
```

## Resource Hierarchy

```
Subscription
└── ResourceGroup
    └── ApiCenterService                    # API inventory service
        ├── Workspace                       # Logical grouping of APIs
        │   ├── Api                         # API definition
        │   │   └── ApiVersion              # Version of the API
        │   │       └── ApiDefinition       # OpenAPI/GraphQL/etc specification
        │   ├── Environment                 # Deployment target (dev/staging/prod)
        │   └── Deployment                  # API deployed to environment
        └── MetadataSchema                  # Custom metadata definitions
```

## Core Workflows

### 1. Create API Center Service

```csharp
using Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter;
using Azure.ResourceManager.ApiCenter.Models;

ResourceGroupResource resourceGroup = await client
    .GetDefaultSubscriptionAsync()
    .Result
    .GetResourceGroupAsync("my-resource-group");

ApiCenterServiceCollection services = resourceGroup.GetApiCenterServices();

ApiCenterServiceData data = new ApiCenterServiceData(AzureLocation.EastUS)
{
    Identity = new ManagedServiceIdentity(ManagedServiceIdentityType.SystemAssigned)
};

ArmOperation<ApiCenterServiceResource> operation = await services
    .CreateOrUpdateAsync(WaitUntil.Completed, "my-api-center", data);

ApiCenterServiceResource service = operation.Value;
```

### 2. Create Workspace
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