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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.

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Install the plugin

 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 ac

Top issues

Latest release

- feature: add GPT-Live voice agent skill support (3485)