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-upgradegit 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-upgrade)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-upgrade"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-upgrade/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-upgrade"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-upgrade.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk warn
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 | $0.00091 | $0.01480 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00046 | $0.00740 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00296 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00148 |
Grade A, and why
azure-upgrade 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-upgrade — 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 — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Upgrade
This skill handles assessment and automated upgrades of existing Azure workloads from one Azure service, hosting plan, or SKU to another — all within Azure. This includes plan/tier upgrades (e.g. Consumption → Flex Consumption), cross-service migrations (e.g. App Service → Container Apps), and SKU changes. It also covers Azure SDK for Java source-code modernization (e.g. legacy Java
com.microsoft.azure.*→ moderncom.azure.*). This is NOT for cross-cloud migration — useazure-cloud-migratefor that.
Triggers
| User Intent | Example Prompts |
|---|---|
| Upgrade Azure Functions plan | "Upgrade my function app from Consumption to Flex Consumption" |
| Change hosting tier | "Move my function app to a better plan" |
| Assess upgrade readiness | "Is my function app ready for Flex Consumption?" |
| Automate plan migration | "Automate the steps to upgrade my Functions plan" |
| Modernize legacy Azure Java SDK | "Migrate legacy Azure SDKs for Java", "Upgrade legacy Azure Java SDK", "Migrate my Java project from com.microsoft.azure to com.azure" |
| Migrate Azure Cache for Redis (ACR/OSS) to Azure Managed Redis (AMR) | "Migrate my Redis cache to AMR", "ACR to AMR", "OSS to AMR", "Upgrade my Premium P2 cache to Managed Redis", "Pick an AMR SKU", "Convert my Redis IaC template to AMR" |
| Migrate Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise (ACRE) to Azure Managed Redis (AMR) | "Migrate my Enterprise_E10 cache to AMR", "ACRE to AMR", "Update my ACRE IaC template for AMR", "Migrate EnterpriseFlash to AMR", "Migrate my geo-replicated Enterprise Redis" |
Rules
- Follow phases sequentially — do not skip
- Generate an assessment before any upgrade operations
- Load the scenario reference and follow its rules
- Use
mcp_azure_mcp_get_azure_bestpracticesandmcp_azure_mcp_documentationMCP tools - Destructive actions require
ask_user— global-rules - Always confirm the target plan/SKU with the user before proceeding
- Never delete or stop the original app without explicit user confirmation
- All automation scripts must be idempotent and resumable
What ships with it
30 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/global-rules.md 2.0 KB
- references/languages/java/bom-migration/bom-gradle-settings.md 6.7 KB
- references/languages/java/bom-migration/bom-gradle-toml.md 2.7 KB
- references/languages/java/bom-migration/bom-gradle.md 5.1 KB
- references/languages/java/bom-migration/bom-maven.md 4.7 KB
- references/languages/java/bom-migration/bom-migration.md 4.2 KB
- references/languages/java/bom-migration/bom-validation.md 1.5 KB
- references/languages/java/INSTRUCTION.md 11 KB
- references/languages/java/package-specific/com.microsoft.azure.eventprocessorhost.md 5.5 KB
- references/languages/java/package-specific/com.microsoft.azure.management.md 9.5 KB
- references/languages/java/README.md 3.0 KB
- references/languages/java/rules/efficiency.md 265 B
- references/languages/java/rules/execution-guidelines.md 1.0 KB
- references/languages/java/rules/review-code-changes.md 541 B
- references/languages/java/rules/troubleshooting.md 2.5 KB
- references/languages/java/rules/upgrade-strategy.md 1.4 KB
- references/languages/java/rules/upgrade-success-criteria.md 686 B
- references/languages/java/scripts/upgrade_bom.py 20 KB runs code
- references/languages/java/templates/PLAN_TEMPLATE.md 9.4 KB
- references/languages/java/templates/PROGRESS_TEMPLATE.md 9.1 KB
- references/languages/java/templates/SUMMARY_TEMPLATE.md 8.6 KB
- references/languages/java/workflow/phase-1-precheck.md 2.3 KB
- references/languages/java/workflow/phase-2-plan.md 2.9 KB
- references/languages/java/workflow/phase-3-execute.md 2.4 KB
- references/languages/java/workflow/phase-4-summarize.md 1.1 KB
- references/services/functions/assessment.md 4.2 KB
- references/services/functions/automation.md 14 KB
- references/services/functions/consumption-to-flex.md 11 KB
- references/services/redis/redis-to-amr.md 7.5 KB
- references/workflow-details.md 1.9 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 · 92 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 26b538372a24
azure-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,463 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,480 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to azure-upgrade, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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