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-app-onboardgit 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-app-onboard)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-app-onboard"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-app-onboard/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-app-onboard"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-app-onboard.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 | $0.00208 | $0.01601 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00104 | $0.00800 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00042 | $0.00320 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00160 |
Grade A, and why
azure-app-onboard 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 11d 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-app-onboard — 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 — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure App Onboard
⛔ Every repo goes through the full pipeline (Steps 1–10). No exceptions. Do not skip steps, refuse, or short-circuit based on what you recognize. Follow the Workflow table below sequentially — read each step's references before acting.
Quick Reference
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Best for | Developers who know what to build but not which Azure services to use |
| Inputs | Business idea or existing codebase, budget/scale preferences (optional) |
| Outputs | Architecture plan, cost estimate, IaC files, deployed Azure resources |
| Phases | Discover → Architect → Scaffold → Deploy (self-contained, no external skill calls) |
When to Use This Skill
- Deploy existing code without knowing which Azure services to use
- Check if your existing code is ready to deploy to Azure
- Move an existing app to Azure without rewriting or with minimal changes
- Get cost estimates before committing to infrastructure
- Understand architecture decisions and rejected alternatives
- Get answers to Azure architecture or service selection questions (e.g., "What database should I use?")
- Get guided Azure onboarding without prior experience
When NOT to Use
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
Run azd up or execute an existing deployment |
azure-deploy |
| Optimize existing Azure spend | azure-cost |
| Generate Bicep/Terraform for a known architecture | azure-prepare |
| Validate infrastructure or run preflight checks | azure-validate |
| Troubleshoot a running Azure deployment | azure-diagnostics |
| Deploy to or manage AKS/Kubernetes directly | azure-kubernetes |
| Look up or list existing Azure resources | azure-resource-lookup |
Pipeline Rules
⛔ You MUST read
references/pipeline-rules.mdat the start of every AppOnboard session. It contains approval gates, phase lifecycle, session artifacts, deploy-as-is, and security baseline rules.
Workflow
⛔ Deploy recovery: After deploy gate approval OR before any
az deployment/az webapp deploy/az acr build— if you haven't readdeploy/SKILL.md, read.copilot-azure/sessions/{id}/deploy-checklist.mdfirst, thendeploy/SKILL.md. ⛔ NEVER invoke{"skill": "azure-deploy"}— that is a DIFFERENT skill for a DIFFERENT workflow.
What ships with it
60 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.
- deploy/references/approval-gate-template.md 2.9 KB
- deploy/references/blocked-patterns.md 5.7 KB
- deploy/references/code-deployment-appservice.md 4.6 KB
- deploy/references/code-deployment-container-apps.md 8.4 KB
- deploy/references/code-deployment-swa.md 5.7 KB
- deploy/references/database-post-deploy.md 4.5 KB
- deploy/references/deploy-checklist-template.md 10 KB
- deploy/references/deploy-safety.md 4.5 KB
- deploy/references/deploy-schemas.ts 3.5 KB runs code
- deploy/references/error-classification.md 3.6 KB
- deploy/references/health-check-patterns.md 5.5 KB
- deploy/references/mcp-tools.md 5.5 KB
- deploy/references/portal-links.md 3.1 KB
- deploy/references/preflight-checks.md 4.4 KB
- deploy/references/subagent-preflight.md 5.1 KB
- deploy/SKILL.md 7.2 KB
- prepare/references/deploy-strategy.md 6.8 KB
- prepare/references/mcp-tools.md 5.6 KB
- prepare/references/naming-patterns.md 4.6 KB
- prepare/references/prepare-schemas.ts 7.0 KB runs code
- prepare/references/pricing-guide-services.md 8.4 KB
- prepare/references/pricing-guide.md 4.0 KB
- prepare/references/service-mapping.md 8.0 KB
- prepare/references/sku-matrix.md 3.2 KB
- prepare/references/sku-quota-validation.md 9.0 KB
- prepare/references/subagent-pricing.md 2.5 KB
- prepare/references/subagent-quota.md 3.5 KB
- prepare/references/validation-rubric.md 2.3 KB
- prepare/SKILL.md 6.2 KB
- references/approval-gates.md 7.4 KB
- references/azd-template-routing.md 4.7 KB
- references/handoff-protocol.md 7.7 KB
- references/iac-resources.md 2.6 KB
- references/intent-gathering.md 2.2 KB
- references/mcp-tool-reference.md 3.7 KB
- references/pipeline-rules-runtime.md 3.5 KB
- references/pipeline-rules.md 6.3 KB
- references/session-protocol.md 8.0 KB
- references/session-schemas.ts 5.3 KB runs code
- references/subscription-resolution.md 2.1 KB
- scaffold/references/bicep-app-service.md 5.2 KB
- scaffold/references/bicep-container-apps.md 9.3 KB
- scaffold/references/bicep-patterns-data.md 4.0 KB
- scaffold/references/bicep-patterns-security.md 7.8 KB
- scaffold/references/bicep-patterns.md 6.8 KB
- scaffold/references/bicep-swa.md 757 B
- scaffold/references/cicd-pipelines.md 325 B
- scaffold/references/dockerfile-generation.md 3.8 KB
- scaffold/references/env-var-secrets.md 4.1 KB
- scaffold/references/error-handling.md 1.5 KB
- scaffold/references/iac-generation-rules.md 6.6 KB
- scaffold/references/mcp-tools.md 7.0 KB
- scaffold/references/rbac-roles.md 3.8 KB
- scaffold/references/scaffold-healing-rules.md 3.3 KB
- scaffold/references/scaffold-schemas.ts 3.5 KB runs code
- scaffold/references/self-healing.md 2.3 KB
- scaffold/references/self-review-checklist.md 9.0 KB
- scaffold/references/self-review-procedure.md 2.3 KB
- scaffold/references/subagent-iac-gen.md 9.5 KB
- scaffold/references/subagent-review.md 3.5 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.
- 11d ago First seen · 76 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A fbfac0fb1c94
azure-app-onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,473 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 208 tokens to every session and 1,601 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to azure-app-onboard, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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