Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
discover-azure-skills
Agent skill frommicrosoft/azure-skills
Searches the Azure skills catalog and recommends installable agent skills by matching an Azure task to skill metadata and plugin installation guidance. WHEN: before starting any task that involves an Azure or Microsoft-cloud service, product, or data source, when no currently loaded skill or tool already covers it.
How to install discover-azure-skills
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/discover-azure-skills/
# into
~/.claude/skills/discover-azure-skills/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/discover-azure-skills/ (one project)
1Follow these steps to discover the available azure skill matching the given task description.231. List plugins45List Azure plugin directories from the GitHub Contents API: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/azure-skills/contents/.github/plugins?ref=main67In the result, each entry whose `type` is `dir` is a plugin directory. Skills are organized by plugins.892. List skills1011For 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=main1213In 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.14153. Discover relevant skills1617Eliminate the skills that obviously aren't relevant by their names. Then for each remaining skill, read their description from the API: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/azure-skills/main/.github/plugins/{plugin-dirname}/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md1819Use the descriptions to further eliminate skills that aren't relevant.20214. Discover the plugin name of the relevant skills2223For each relevant skill, discover their plugin name by reading the `plugin.json` from the GitHub Contents API: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/azure-skills/main/.github/plugins/{plugin-dirname}/.plugin/plugin.json2425This is important because a plugin's name may be different from its directory name. The installation commands depend on the plugin's name.26…
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