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-compliancegit 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-compliance)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-compliance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-compliance/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-compliance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-compliance.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 | $0.00079 | $0.00874 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00437 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00175 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00087 |
Grade A, and why
azure-compliance 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to azure-compliance — 23 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 — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Compliance & Security Auditing
Quick Reference
| Property | Details |
|---|---|
| Best for | Compliance scans, security audits, Key Vault expiration checks |
| Primary capabilities | Comprehensive Resources Assessment, Key Vault Expiration Monitoring |
| MCP tools | azqr, subscription and resource group listing, Key Vault item inspection |
Prerequisites
- Authentication: user is logged in to Azure via
az login - Permissions to read resource configuration and Key Vault metadata
Assessments
| Assessment | Reference |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive Compliance (azqr) | references/azure-quick-review.md |
| Key Vault Expiration | references/azure-keyvault-expiration-audit.md |
| Resource Graph Queries | references/azure-resource-graph.md |
MCP Tools
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
mcp_azure_mcp_extension_azqr |
Run azqr compliance scans |
mcp_azure_mcp_subscription_list |
List available subscriptions |
mcp_azure_mcp_group_list |
List resource groups |
keyvault_key_list |
List all keys in vault |
keyvault_key_get |
Get key details including expiration |
keyvault_secret_list |
List all secrets in vault |
keyvault_secret_get |
Get secret details including expiration |
keyvault_certificate_list |
List all certificates in vault |
keyvault_certificate_get |
Get certificate details including expiration |
Assessment Workflow
- Select scope (subscription or resource group) for Comprehensive Resources Assessment.
- Run azqr and capture output artifacts.
- Analyze Scan Results and summarize findings and recommendations.
- Review Key Vault Expiration Monitoring output for keys, secrets, and certificates.
- Classify issues and propose remediation or fix steps for each finding.
Priority Classification
| Priority | Guidance |
|---|---|
| Critical | Immediate remediation required for high-impact exposure |
| High | Resolve within days to reduce risk |
| Medium | Plan a resolution in the next sprint |
| Low | Track and fix during regular maintenance |
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/azqr-recommendations.md 5.7 KB
- references/azqr-remediation-patterns.md 7.8 KB
- references/azure-keyvault-expiration-audit.md 5.0 KB
- references/azure-quick-review.md 5.0 KB
- references/azure-resource-graph.md 2.7 KB
- references/sdk/azure-keyvault-certificates-rust.md 1013 B
- references/sdk/azure-keyvault-keys-rust.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-keyvault-keys-ts.md 1019 B
- references/sdk/azure-keyvault-py.md 1.1 KB
- references/sdk/azure-keyvault-secrets-rust.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-keyvault-secrets-ts.md 1.0 KB
- references/sdk/azure-security-keyvault-keys-dotnet.md 1.1 KB
- references/sdk/azure-security-keyvault-keys-java.md 1.3 KB
- references/sdk/azure-security-keyvault-secrets-java.md 1.5 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.
- yesterday Changed · -21 lines fcdadd24b113
- 11d ago First seen · 109 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 7d50dc223fb0
azure-compliance is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,473 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 874 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-compliance, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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