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.
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/skillsnpx agentmods add plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-skillsgit 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-skills)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/microsoft/skills/azure-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
azure 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 yesterday.
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
{
"name": "azure",
"description": "Microsoft Azure MCP and Skills integration for cloud resource management, deployments, and Azure services. Manage your Azure infrastructure, monitor applications, and deploy resources directly from Claude Code.",
"version": "1.2.40",
"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",
"cloud",
"infrastructure",
"deployment",
"microsoft",
"devops",
"foundry",
"diagnostics"
],
"skills": "./skills/",
"mcpServers": "./.mcp.json",
"hooks": "./hooks/claude-hooks.json"
}
What it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 38 skills travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 4,339 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
- Skill microsoft-foundry A 214 tokens
- Skill azure-reliability A 118 tokens
- Skill azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness A 87 tokens
- Skill entra-agent-id A 131 tokens
- Skill scaffold A 0 tokens
- Skill azure-quotas A 77 tokens
- Skill azure-kusto A 65 tokens
- Skill customize A 116 tokens
- Skill azure-diagnostics A 160 tokens
- Skill azure-enterprise-infra-planner A 119 tokens
- Skill capacity A 105 tokens
- Skill deploy-model A 129 tokens
- Skill azure-aigateway A 90 tokens
- Skill azure-resource-lookup A 159 tokens
- Skill azure-storage A 158 tokens
- Skill preset A 99 tokens
- Skill azure-validate A 117 tokens
- Skill azure-kubernetes A 144 tokens
- Skill azure-prepare A 166 tokens
- Skill azure-app-onboard-prereq A 196 tokens
- Skill azure-resource-visualizer A 59 tokens
- Skill entra-app-registration A 93 tokens
- Skill azure-app-onboard A 208 tokens
- Skill azure-deploy A 190 tokens
- Skill azure-upgrade A 91 tokens
- Skill deploy A 0 tokens
- Skill prepare A 0 tokens
- Skill azure-compliance A 79 tokens
- Skill finetuning A 132 tokens
- Skill airunway-aks-setup A 121 tokens
- Skill appinsights-instrumentation A 61 tokens
- Skill azure-cloud-migrate A 106 tokens
- Skill azure-ai A 76 tokens
- Skill azure-compute A 154 tokens
- Skill azure-messaging A 178 tokens
- Skill python-appservice-deploy A 81 tokens
- Skill azure-cost A 94 tokens
- Skill azure-kubernetes-app-deploy A 166 tokens
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.
- yesterday First seen · 26 lines scan A 39ef5e4cb5fc
azure is a plugin published in the GitHub repository microsoft/skills (2,992 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 2026-09-03.
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