Azure Skills Plugin is an agent plugin that packages Azure-specific guidance with MCP server configurations for carrying out Azure work. Coding agents use it to plan, deploy, troubleshoot, monitor, govern, and optimize Azure applications and services. The catalogue entries are the plugin's skills, instructions, and execution integrations.
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.
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-aigit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-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/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-ai)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-ai"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-ai/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/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-ai"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-ai.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
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 | $0.00076 | $0.00789 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00038 | $0.00394 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00158 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00079 |
Grade A, and why
azure-ai 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 10d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to azure-ai — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure AI Services
Services
| Service | Use When | MCP Tools | CLI |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Search | Full-text, vector, hybrid search | azure__search |
az search |
| Speech | Speech-to-text, text-to-speech | azure__speech |
- |
| OpenAI | GPT models, embeddings, DALL-E | - | az cognitiveservices |
| Document Intelligence | Form extraction, OCR | - | - |
MCP Server (Preferred)
When Azure MCP is enabled:
AI Search
azure__searchwith commandsearch_index_list- List search indexesazure__searchwith commandsearch_index_get- Get index detailsazure__searchwith commandsearch_query- Query search index
Speech
azure__speechwith commandspeech_transcribe- Speech to textazure__speechwith commandspeech_synthesize- Text to speech
If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp.
AI Search Capabilities
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Full-text search | Linguistic analysis, stemming |
| Vector search | Semantic similarity with embeddings |
| Hybrid search | Combined keyword + vector |
| AI enrichment | Entity extraction, OCR, sentiment |
Speech Capabilities
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Speech-to-text | Real-time and batch transcription |
| Text-to-speech | Neural voices, SSML support |
| Speaker diarization | Identify who spoke when |
| Custom models | Domain-specific vocabulary |
SDK Quick References
For programmatic access to these services, see the condensed SDK guides:
- AI Search: Python | TypeScript | .NET
- OpenAI: .NET
- Vision: Python | Java
- Transcription: Python
- Translation: Python | TypeScript
- Document Intelligence: .NET | TypeScript
- Content Safety: Python | TypeScript | Java
What ships with it
15 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- references/auth-best-practices.md 6.1 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-contentsafety-java.md 1.4 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-contentsafety-py.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-contentsafety-ts.md 1.4 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-document-intelligence-dotnet.md 1.4 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-document-intelligence-ts.md 1.5 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-openai-dotnet.md 1.4 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-transcription-py.md 1.2 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-translation-text-py.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-translation-ts.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-java.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-py.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-search-documents-dotnet.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-search-documents-py.md 1.5 KB
- references/sdk/azure-search-documents-ts.md 1.2 KB
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 72 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A d445410cfbeb
azure-ai is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,463 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 789 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to azure-ai, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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