Azure Skills

Official Azure plugin providing comprehensive Azure capabilities through skills and MCP tooling. This plugin delivers three integrated layers:

Azure Skills: Strategic Azure Expertise

Ships 25 curated Azure skills that teach agents how Azure work gets done, providing workflows, decision trees, and guardrails for:

• Build, deploy, and evolve: azure-prepare, azure-validate, azure-deploy, azure-upgrade, azure-enterprise-infra-planner, azure-hosted-copilot-sdk, azure-kubernetes, airunway-aks-setup
• Troubleshoot, monitor, and govern: azure-diagnostics, appinsights-instrumentation, azure-compliance, azure-resource-lookup, azure-quotas
• Optimize architecture and cost: azure-cost, azure-compute, azure-resource-visualizer, azure-cloud-migrate
• Work across data, AI, identity, and platform services: azure-ai, azure-aigateway, azure-storage, azure-kusto, azure-messaging, azure-rbac, entra-app-registration, microsoft-foundry

Azure MCP Server: Execution Layer

200+ structured tools across 40+ Azure services for listing resources, checking prices, querying logs, diagnosing issues, and driving real Azure workflows.

Foundry MCP: AI Specialist

Microsoft Foundry capabilities including model discovery, deployment, and agent workflows.

Authentication

Recommended authentication via Azure CLI:

az login
azd auth login  # for deployment scenarios

Alternatively, use service principal credentials via environment variables.

Sovereign Cloud Support

Supports Azure Public Cloud (default), Azure China Cloud, and Azure US Government. Configure with the --cloud argument:

• AzureChinaCloud for Azure China Cloud
• AzureUSGovernment for Azure US Government Cloud

Example Prompts

• "Prepare this app for Azure."
• "List my Azure storage accounts."
• "Find cost savings across my Azure subscription."
• "Troubleshoot why my container app is failing health probes."
• "What AI models are available in Microsoft Foundry?"

Telemetry

To disable telemetry collection:

export AZURE_MCP_COLLECT_TELEMETRY=false