azure-ai

Name: azure-ai
Author: microsoft

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About azure-ai

azure-ai is a skill that guides agents in choosing and using Azure AI services such as AI Search and Speech. It summarizes each service's use cases, MCP tools, CLI commands and SDK quick references.

Key features

01Service selection table for Azure AI
02AI Search tools for indexes and queries
03Speech tools for transcription and synthesis
04Summaries of search and speech capabilities
05Links to condensed SDK guides

Use cases

01Choosing an Azure AI service for an agent task
02Querying Azure AI Search indexes through Azure MCP
03Running speech-to-text or text-to-speech with Speech

MCP support

The skill prefers calling Azure services through Azure MCP and lists the azure__search and azure__speech commands. It explains how to enable Azure MCP in Copilot CLI, Claude Code and other hosts.

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-ai

After installing, type/azure-aiin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled files

References and scripts installed along with SKILL.md.

references/

auth-best-practices.md

references/sdk/

azure-ai-contentsafety-java.md

azure-ai-contentsafety-py.md

azure-ai-contentsafety-ts.md

azure-ai-document-intelligence-dotnet.md

azure-ai-document-intelligence-ts.md

azure-ai-openai-dotnet.md

azure-ai-transcription-py.md

azure-ai-translation-text-py.md

azure-ai-translation-ts.md

azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-java.md

azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-py.md

azure-search-documents-dotnet.md

azure-search-documents-py.md

azure-search-documents-ts.md

Details

From the project README

Azure AI Services

Services

Service	Use When	MCP Tools	CLI
AI Search	Full-text, vector, hybrid search	`azure__search`	`az search`
Speech	Speech-to-text, text-to-speech	`azure__speech`	-
OpenAI	GPT models, embeddings, DALL-E	-	`az cognitiveservices`
Document Intelligence	Form extraction, OCR	-	-

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

AI Search

azure__search with command search_index_list - List search indexes
azure__search with command search_index_get - Get index details
azure__search with command search_query - Query search index

Speech

azure__speech with command speech_transcribe - Speech to text
azure__speech with command speech_synthesize - Text to speech

If Azure MCP is not enabled: In Copilot CLI or Claude Code, ask the user to run /mcp and enable Azure MCP; in other hosts, ask the user to enable Azure MCP through the host's MCP configuration.

AI Search Capabilities

Feature	Description
Full-text search	Linguistic analysis, stemming
Vector search	Semantic similarity with embeddings
Hybrid search	Combined keyword + vector
AI enrichment	Entity extraction, OCR, sentiment

Speech Capabilities

Feature	Description
Speech-to-text	Real-time and batch transcription
Text-to-speech	Neural voices, SSML support
Speaker diarization	Identify who spoke when
Custom models	Domain-specific vocabulary

SDK Quick References

For programmatic access to these services, see the condensed SDK guides:

AI Search: Python | TypeScript | .NET
OpenAI: .NET
Vision: Python | Java
Transcription: Python
Translation: Python | TypeScript
Document Intelligence: .NET | TypeScript
Content Safety: Python | TypeScript | Java

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

AI Search indexing and queries -> Azure AI Search documentation
Speech transcription patterns -> Azure AI Speech documentation

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Author: microsoft
Repository: microsoft/azure-skills
Category: Cloud & DevOps
Installs: 571,176
GitHub stars: 1,603
First seen: Feb 4, 2026

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