Discover Azure Skills

Before you touch anything Azure-related, this skill is worth running first. It walks the microsoft/azure-skills repo on GitHub, lists the plugin directories and the skills inside them, reads each candidate's SKILL.md description, and then works out the plugin name from plugin.json, since the install command uses that name and it doesn't always match the folder. The output is a shortlist of installable skills plus install steps for Copilot CLI, Claude Code, or other clients. The main thing to know is that it depends on live GitHub API calls and unauthenticated requests, so you may hit rate limits if you run it repeatedly. It also only helps when no skill you already have covers the task, which the trigger condition makes clear. For a one-off Azure question it's a quick way to find the right tooling instead of guessing.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill discover-azure-skills --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Follow these steps to discover the available azure skill matching the given task description.

List plugins

List Azure plugin directories from the GitHub Contents API: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/azure-skills/contents/.github/plugins?ref=main

In the result, each entry whose type is dir is a plugin directory. Skills are organized by plugins.

List skills

For each plugin, list their skills from the GitHub Contents API: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/azure-skills/contents/.github/plugins/{plugin-dirname}/skills?ref=main

In the result, each entry whose type is dir is a skill directory. Each skill has a SKILL.md file that explains what this skill should be used for.