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.
2. 📚 How These Skills Are Created
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:
API patterns and usage guidance
Service configuration procedures
Platform best practices and constraints
Troubleshooting decision trees
Security and compliance requirements
Our approach:
Extract high-value, task-oriented capabilities from Learn content
Classify by purpose (limits, troubleshooting, configuration, architecture, etc.)
Reveal only when relevant to the user's intent
The knowledge is pre-compiled into actions, choices, and guardrails the agent can use directly — not raw text that needs interpretation.
Each skill provides:
📚 Curated documentation links organized by topic
🔗 Direct access to Microsoft Learn content
🎯 Best practices and architecture patterns
⚠️ Troubleshooting guides and common pitfalls
3. ⚡️ Quick Start
A short path to getting started — full installation details are in the 🛠️ Installation section below.
Once 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.
🔌 Compatibility & Invocation
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/yourname or /home/yourname
Windows:~ = %USERPROFILE% = C:\Users\yourname (use $HOME in PowerShell)
💡 Tip: Most modern tools support .agent/skills/ as a universal path. For GitHub Copilot, .github/skills/ is recommended per the Agent Skills specification.
📦 Features & Categories
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 ✓
🎁 Curated Collections (Bundles)
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
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
