azure-cognitive-search

azure-cognitive-search is a skill for Claude Code from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 116 tokens per session (8,347 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

Reference guidance for Azure AI Search, a service for indexing and searching information, including meaning-based vector search and semantic search. It covers indexes, skillsets, architecture, security, private endpoints, integrations, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build indexes and skillsets, configure vector or semantic search, set up private endpoints, and integrate or deploy Azure AI Search.
Why use it?
It helps when designing or troubleshooting search systems and when choosing the right configuration for indexing, relevance, security, and deployment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 198 skills shipped together , and of azure-agent-skills

Good fit Use it to build indexes and skillsets, configure vector or semantic search, set up private endpoints, and integrate or deploy Azure AI Search.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-cognitive-search
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-cognitive-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 198 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,347 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00116 $0.08347
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.04174
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00835

Measured today against content hash fe72bf9794fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-cognitive-search 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 today.

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.

skills/azure-cognitive-search/SKILL.md · 317 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

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.

  1. today Changed · -5 tokens per session fe72bf9794fe
  2. 7d ago Changed · +14 tokens per session 6a976b167b06
  3. 8d ago First seen · 317 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 4431416c32a4

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azure-cognitive-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (735 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 8,347 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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