Azure Functions Skills is a repository of agent skills, prompts, reusable definitions, MCP configuration, and telemetry hooks that give coding agents context about Azure Functions development and operations. Developers use it for guidance on triggers, bindings, runtimes, deployment, and code checks, while the catalogue contains its agent-facing add-ons.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/azure-functions-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-functions-skills/main/.github/instructions/skills.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/skills)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/skills/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/skills.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00266 | $0.00266 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00133 | $0.00133 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00053 | $0.00053 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00027 |
Grade A, and why
azure-functions-skills skills.instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Skill and Template Development Rules
Canonical Source
templates/is the single source of truth for skills, telemetry hooks, and MCP definitions.- Generated files under
.github/plugins/,.plugin/, and.claude-plugin/are derived — never hand-edit them.
Workflow
- Edit the canonical source under
templates/. - Validate:
npm run validate:skills - Regenerate:
npm run build:plugin-payload - Verify:
npm run verify:plugin-payload - Run full gate:
npm run check
Skill Content
- Skill Markdown (
SKILL.md) is loaded as LLM agent instructions. Write clearly and unambiguously. - Include
references/for checklists, examples, and supporting material. - Tag skills with proper YAML front matter (name, title, description, category).
Security
- Skill content can instruct an LLM agent with file-write and shell-execution permissions. Review every change carefully for prompt injection risks.
- Never include executable commands that could be harmful if run verbatim by an agent.
- CI runs
npm run lint:security(includinglint-skill-content.mjs) to scan for dangerous patterns.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 266 tokens per session scan A c10b841f0e8b
azure-functions-skills skills.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-functions-skills (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 266 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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