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
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/microsoft/azure-skills/scaffoldWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00000 | $0.03771 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01886 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00754 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00377 |
Grade A, and why
scaffold 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 7d 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 scaffold — 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 — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure App Onboard Scaffold — IaC Generation + Self-Review
Generate deployment-ready infrastructure code from an architecture plan, verify it with adversarial self-review, and bridge to validation — all without deploying.
Quick Reference
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Parent | azure-app-onboard |
| Best for | Turning prepare-plan.json service list into Bicep templates with secure-by-default patterns |
| Inputs | prepare-plan.json (services, naming, quotas), context.json (overrides, components, repo info) |
| Outputs | scaffold-manifest.json, generated IaC files in infra/ |
| Pipeline position | Phase 3 of 4: prereq → prepare → scaffold → deploy |
| IaC format | Bicep (v1 default). Terraform when existing .tf detected or user override. |
When to Use This Skill
Invoked by the azure-app-onboard orchestrator at Phase 3 when prepare-plan.json exists with services[]. Not directly user-routable in v1.
Return to orchestrator: When complete, return control to
azure-app-onboard. Do NOT directly invoke deploy — the orchestrator manages phase transitions.
When NOT to Use
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
User-triggered IaC (no prepare-plan.json) |
azure-prepare |
| Subscription-scope landing zones | azure-enterprise-infra-planner |
Execute deployment (azd up) |
azure-deploy (do NOT invoke from AppOnboard pipeline) |
MCP Tools
See shared tools for cross-phase tools and global parameters. See scaffold tools for full parameter tables.
| Tool | Sub-command | Purpose | Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
mcp_azure_mcp_bicepschema |
bicepschema_get |
ARM resource type schemas | resource_type (Required), api_version (Optional) |
mcp_bicep_list_avm_metadata |
(flat) | AVM module catalog | None |
mcp_bicep_get_bicep_best_practices |
(flat) | Bicep best practices | None |
mcp_bicep_get_az_resource_type_schema |
(flat) | ARM resource type JSON schema | azResourceType, apiVersion (Required) |
mcp_bicep_build_bicep |
(flat) | Validate .bicep files (self-review L3) |
filePath (Required) |
mcp_bicep_format_bicep_file |
(flat) | Format .bicep files (LF enforcement) |
filePath (Required) |
mcp_azure_mcp_deploy |
deploy_iac_rules_get |
IaC best practices and rules | deployment-tool, iac-type, resource-types |
mcp_azure_mcp_deploy |
deploy_pipeline_guidance_get |
CI/CD pipeline config | is-azd-project, pipeline-platform, deploy-option |
mcp_azure_mcp_get_azure_bestpractices |
get_azure_bestpractices_get |
SDK/Functions best practices | resource, action |
mcp_azure_mcp_azureterraformbestpractices |
(flat) | Terraform patterns (TF path only) | resource_type (Required) |
What ships with it
26 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/bicep-app-service.md 5.2 KB
- references/bicep-container-apps.md 9.3 KB
- references/bicep-patterns-data.md 4.0 KB
- references/bicep-patterns-security.md 7.8 KB
- references/bicep-patterns.md 6.8 KB
- references/bicep-swa.md 757 B
- references/cicd-pipelines.md 325 B
- references/dockerfile-generation.md 3.8 KB
- references/env-var-secrets.md 4.1 KB
- references/error-handling.md 1.5 KB
- references/iac-generation-rules.md 6.6 KB
- references/mcp-tools.md 7.0 KB
- references/rbac-roles.md 3.8 KB
- references/scaffold-healing-rules.md 3.3 KB
- references/scaffold-schemas.ts 3.5 KB runs code
- references/self-healing.md 2.3 KB
- references/self-review-checklist.md 9.0 KB
- references/self-review-procedure.md 2.3 KB
- references/subagent-iac-gen.md 9.5 KB
- references/subagent-review.md 3.5 KB
- references/subagent-validate.md 7.2 KB
- references/terraform-patterns.md 6.9 KB
- references/validation-and-manifest.md 5.1 KB
- references/waf-checklist.md 2.3 KB
- scripts/scaffold-conformance.ps1 13 KB runs code
- scripts/scaffold-conformance.sh 14 KB runs code
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 191 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 06ea2eedf46d
scaffold is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,453 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,771 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to scaffold, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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