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Azure VM/VMSS router. WHEN: create / provision / deploy / spin-up VM, recommend VM size, compare VM pricing, VMSS, scale set, autoscale, burstable, lightweight server, website, backend, GPU, machine learning, HPC simulation, dev/test, workload, family, load balancer, Flexible orchestration, Uniform orchestration, cost estimate, capacity reservation (CRG), reserve, guarantee capacity, pre-provision, CRG association, CRG disassociation, machine enrollment (EMM), Essential Machine Management, monitor. PREFER OVER mcp__azure__get_azure_bestpractices for VM create intents — use compute_vm_list-skus

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1,581 stars +17 this week Updated 19d ago License MIT Context ≈154 tokens always loaded

71popular

Why this score

Stars

15/35

Usage (forks)

6/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 1,581 stars are split between them (about 158 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 71/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit cf79ce8778ad, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

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Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/azure-compute

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tar.gz/cf79ce8778ad063eeac19dbe8bf982d71b466ce0 | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/azure-compute --strip-components=3 "azure-skills-cf79ce8778ad063eeac19dbe8bf982d71b466ce0/skills/azure-compute"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/azure-compute

npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-compute

gemini extensions install https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --ref=cf79ce8778ad063eeac19dbe8bf982d71b466ce0

Pinned to commit cf79ce8778ad as listed by Gemini CLI extensions gallery.

Context cost: ≈154 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈653 tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Used for

Engineering › Testing & QA Engineering › Backend & APIs Engineering › DevOps & cloud Data & analytics › Machine learning

Facts

Repo: microsoft/azure-skills
Stars: 1,581
Forks: 259
Last push: 2026-10-16 (19d ago)
License: MIT
Owner: microsoft · since 2013
Language: Shell
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI, Gemini CLI