Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs.
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Azure Agent Skills is a curated collection of high-quality agentic skills specifically designed for Azure cloud development. These skills follow the Agent Skills open standard and work seamlessly with modern AI coding assistants to provide expert-level guidance on Azure services.
AI Agents (like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor) are smart, but they lack specific, up-to-date knowledge about Azure services. Skills are folders containing markdown instructions, scripts, and resources that teach AI agents how to work with Azure services correctly, every time.
💡 Skills are reusable, filesystem-based resources that provide AI agents with domain-specific expertise. They load on-demand and eliminate the need to repeatedly provide the same guidance across conversations.
Microsoft Learn documentation already encodes decisions, procedures, best practices, and constraints — exactly what agents need to act effectively. Rather than relying on RAG to retrieve and summarize raw text every time, we pre-compile this knowledge into structured, executable skills.
Documentation as Pre-Built Skills: Many effective agent skills are not new inventions — they are structured patterns, workflows, and decision logic that already exist in documentation. Consider what Learn content contains:
Our approach:
The knowledge is pre-compiled into actions, choices, and guardrails the agent can use directly — not raw text that needs interpretation.
Each skill provides:
A short path to getting started — full installation details are in the 🛠️ Installation section below.
Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/agent-skills.git
Copy the contents of the skills/ folder to your AI assistant's skills path (see 🛠️ Installation for the destination table and important notes).
VS Code users: enable chat.agent.skills in Settings so the editor will load skills.
Start coding — your AI assistant will automatically discover and use the installed skills.
Skills use progressive disclosure to efficiently load content only when needed:
name and description from YAML frontmatterSKILL.md contentOnce installed, just ask your AI assistant naturally:
"Help me set up Azure Functions with Durable Functions"
"What are the best practices for Azure Container Apps?"
"How do I configure Azure API Management?"
The skills will automatically provide context from official Microsoft documentation.
These skills follow the Agent Skills open standard (SKILL.md format) and work with any AI coding assistant that supports agentic skills.
| AI Coding Assistant | Type | Skills Path / Location | How to Invoke |
|-------------------------|----------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| Claude Code | Anthropic CLI | .claude/skills/ | Natural language, /skill-name |
| Gemini CLI | Google DeepMind| .gemini/skills/ | Natural language |
| Codex CLI | OpenAI | .codex/skills/ | Natural language |
| Antigravity IDE | DeepMind IDE | .agent/skills/ | Agent mode, natural language |
| GitHub Copilot | VSCode Ext | .github/skills/ | Natural language, @workspace |
| Cursor | AI-native IDE | .cursor/skills/ | @skill-name in Chat |
| OpenCode | Open-source CLI| .agent/skills/ | opencode run @skill-name |
| AdaL CLI | SylphAI Agent | .adal/skills/ | Auto-load, natural language |
💡 Path Note:
~refers to your home directory:
- macOS/Linux:
~=/Users/yournameor/home/yourname- Windows:
~=%USERPROFILE%=C:\Users\yourname(use$HOMEin PowerShell)
💡 Tip: Most modern tools support
.agent/skills/as a universal path. For GitHub Copilot,.github/skills/is recommended per the Agent Skills specification.
The repository is organized by Azure service domains:
| Category | Skills | Examples | |----------|--------|----------| | ☁️ Compute | 13 | Azure App Service, Azure Batch, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Cyclecloud, Azure Functions | | 🔗 Integration | 16 | Azure API Center, Azure API Management, Azure Business Process Tracking, Azure Communication Services, Azure Data API Builder | | 📊 Data & Analytics | 19 | Azure Analysis Services, Azure Cache Redis, Azure Cosmos Db, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory | | 🤖 AI & ML | 23 | Azure AI Services, Azure AI Vision, Azure Anomaly Detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Foundry Classic, Azure Foundry Local, Microsoft Foundry | | 🔒 Security & Identity | 19 | Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Attestation, Azure Cloud Hsm, Azure Confidential Computing, Azure Confidential Ledger | | 🌐 Networking | 23 | Azure Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Dns, Azure Expressroute | | 🏗️ Infrastructure | 52 | Azure Advisor, Azure AKS Edge Essentials, Azure API Management, Azure Arc, Azure Architecture, Azure Container Storage, Azure Elastic SAN | | 💰 Management | 39 | Azure Advisor, Azure API Management, Azure Architecture, Azure Artifacts, Azure Automation | | 🎮 Specialized | 26 | Azure AKS Edge Essentials, Azure API Management, Azure App Configuration, Azure App Service, Azure Communication Services |
Total: 193 skills across 19 categories ✓
Not sure where to start? We've created role-based skill bundles to help you get productive quickly.
| Bundle | Description | |--------|-------------| | 🚀 Quick Start | Absolute essentials for any Azure developer — master these 7 core services first | | ⭐ Popular | Popular Azure services. The services that power most workloads | | 🎯 Core | Core Azure essentials. The foundation every developer needs before specializing | | 🤖 AI/ML Developer | For AI engineers and ML practitioners. Covers AI services, machine learning, and intelligent applications | | 📊 Data Engineer | For data engineers and analytics professionals. Covers data integration, warehousing, and streaming analytics | | 🏗️ Infrastructure Pro | For infrastructure engineers and cloud architects. Covers networking, backup, recovery, and resource management | | 🔒 Security & Compliance | Secure Azure workloads with RBAC, policy, key management, and compliance | | 🌐 DevOps & Automation | Aut