About discover-azure-skills
A discovery skill for finding Azure skills that match a task and reporting how to install them. It searches plugin and skill metadata in the microsoft/azure-skills GitHub repository, then checks client-specific installation guidance.
Key features
- 01Lists Azure plugin and skill directories
- 02Filters skills by name and description
- 03Looks up plugin names from plugin.json
- 04Provides installation guidance by client
Use cases
- 01Finding an Azure skill for a described task
- 02Identifying the plugin needed to install a matching skill
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/After installing, type/discover-azure-skillsin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled files
References and scripts installed along with SKILL.md.
references/install/claude-code.mdcopilot-cli.mdother.mdDetails
From the project READMEFollow 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.
- Discover relevant skills
Eliminate 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.md
Use the descriptions to further eliminate skills that aren't relevant.
- Discover the plugin name of the relevant skills
For 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.json
This is important because a plugin's name may be different from its directory name. The installation commands depend on the plugin's name.
- Report the matched skills
Report the matched skills and offer instructions to install them. Skills can be installed by installing their plugin. Read the installation instructions matching the agent client to offer the installation instructions.