microsoft/skills is a collection of skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, plugins, hooks, commands, and MCP configurations that give AI coding agents context for Azure SDK and Microsoft AI Foundry development. Developers use it to install selected domain-specific guidance into coding-agent environments. The catalogue entries are the repository’s own agent resources and supporting configurations.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/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/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-local-skills)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-local-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-local-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/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-local-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-local-skills.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
azure-local-skills 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 today.
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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- azure-local-skills — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
{
"name": "azure-local-skills",
"description": "Azure Local skills covering standard deployments (Azure Stack HCI, 1-16 node hyperconverged, rack-aware clusters) and multi-rack (rack scale) deployments built on Network Fabric Controller, Cluster Manager, and managed network fabric.",
"version": "1.0.17",
"author": {
"name": "Microsoft",
"url": "https://www.microsoft.com"
},
"homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure",
"repository": "https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure",
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"azure",
"azure-local",
"azure-stack-hci",
"hybrid",
"arc",
"multi-rack",
"network-fabric"
],
"skills": "./skills/",
"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
"hooks": "./hooks/claude-hooks.json"
}
What it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 2 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 276 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
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.
- today Changed c14532a3fa9b
- yesterday Changed 1a1d15471519
- 6d ago Changed 2cd9253268fd
- 7d ago Changed 24b52871ab1f
- 10d ago Changed 7071f63d527d
- 15d ago Changed 3b2c6d07a4df
- 16d ago Changed b299e7f7a469
- 22d ago Changed 4140b3882af7
- 1mo ago First seen · 25 lines scan A 2f4a46ae13c0
azure-local-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository microsoft/skills (3,120 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-16.
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