Azure Skills Plugin Claude skills

What's inside depth 4/5

94 skills averaging 7.7 KB with reference folders in many, some scripts, CI, about 40 eval files and MCP servers for execution.

Skills

94

Reference docs

1785

Scripts

274

Tests / evals

128

Templates

252

Avg SKILL.md

7.5 KB

Counted from the repository file tree. How we score depth.

This skill asks for more access than most, or sends data to another service. That is usually a design choice rather than bad intent, but you should know before you install it.

• Pre-approves broad shell commandsFrontmatter of two Foundry sub-skill docs (this and resource/private-network/private-network.md line 5) lists unrestricted 'allowed-tools: Read, Write, Bash'; they are referenced docs rather than root SKILL.md files, so hosts may or may not honour them..github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/microsoft-foundry/project/create/create-foundry-project.md:7

Microsoft's Azure skills plugin: mostly guidance plus helper scripts that run az, azd, kubectl, terraform and Foundry fine-tuning against your own subscription, including steps that create resources, grant SQL roles to managed identities, start privileged node debug sessions and deploy models. The AKS packet-capture flow is gated by a written approval checklist and the README documents Azure MCP telemetry with an opt-out. One PowerShell helper sends your Azure management token to a non-management.azure.com Front Door search host, and the MCP configuration and some hooks were not in the files we could read.

Worth knowing

• Relies on a CLI or package we could not reviewScripts depend on az, azd, kubectl, terraform, jq, sqlcmd and the Azure MCP Server, none of which are in the repository; terraform init and plan run in your infra directory..github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-validate/references/recipes/terraform/scripts/validate-terraform.sh:106
• Installs packages or toolsInstalls the az rdbms-connect extension and runs 'dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef'; check-and-setup-dependencies installs the azd microsoft.foundry extension; appinsights.ps1 adds the application-insights extension..github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-deploy/references/recipes/azd/scripts/grant-and-migrate.sh:56
• Makes network requestsPython scripts call Azure Resource Manager and the user's own Foundry or Azure OpenAI endpoints with the user's Azure token or API key (deploy and delete models, upload training files, submit and cancel fine-tuning jobs)..github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/microsoft-foundry/finetuning/scripts/deploy_model.py:120
• Needs an API key for its own serviceSends an Azure Resource Manager bearer token plus the search query to a Front Door host (PCNX-AI-etc5bra3fscchrew.b02.azurefd.net) that is not the management.azure.com audience the token was issued for; ownership of that host cannot be confirmed from the files..github/plugins/aks-skills/skills/azure-search-nav/references/Invoke-PortalSearchNav.ps1:179
• Installs with curl | shReference doc tells the agent or user to install azd with 'curl -fsSL https://aka.ms/install-azd.sh | bash' (Microsoft short link; also in azure-prepare)..github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-deploy/references/sdk/azd-deployment.md:8
• Runs remote code at an unpinned versionDoc recommends running 'npx @upstash/context7-mcp@latest', a third-party MCP server at an unpinned version, for supplemental examples..github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-prepare/references/recipes/azd/terraform.md:328
• Sends usage data by default (can be turned off)README says the bundled Azure MCP Server collects telemetry and can be switched off with AZURE_MCP_COLLECT_TELEMETRY=false.README.md:361

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