azure-arc SKILL.md skillA

azure-arc from microsoftdocs/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-arc@git:20261026.9554420

Pins git:20261026.9554420 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
microsoftdocs/agent-skills
Path
skills/azure-arc/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
11
Latest version
git:20261026.9554420, committed Oct 26, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 3, 2026
Size
49,199 bytes
Repository stars
806
License
CC-BY-4.0

Expert knowledge for Azure Arc development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when using Arc-enabled Kubernetes, Arc SQL MI, resource bridge, Arc Agentic Retrieval, or Edge Volumes, and other Azure Arc related development tasks. Not for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (use azure-kubernetes-service), Azure Virtual Machines…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Azure Arc Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Arc. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

## How to Use This Skill

> **IMPORTANT for Agent**: Use the **Category Index** below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., `L35-L120`), use `read_file` with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., `[security.md](security.md)`), use `read_file` on the linked reference file

> **IMPORTANT for Agent**: If `metadata.generated_at` is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If `mcp_microsoftdocs` tools are not available, suggest the user install it: [Installation Guide](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp/blob/main/README.md)

This skill requires **network access** to fetch documentation content:
- **Preferred**: Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill`. Returns Markdown.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-arc@sha256:67c7fda449384334

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.9554420, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_dvz2ya7443mgb4dc.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dvz2ya7443mgb4dc)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 8 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261026.9554420 latest2026-10-26 9554420 49,199 BA view · diff
git:20261019.33e96302026-10-19 33e9630 49,377 BA view · diff
git:20261005.ba74e8f2026-10-05 ba74e8f 48,616 BA view · diff
git:20260928.326540f2026-09-28 326540f 48,444 BA view · diff
git:20260922.1e593dd2026-09-22 1e593dd 48,298 BA view · diff
git:20260914.d5ad4642026-09-14 d5ad464 48,392 BA view · diff
git:20260907.90ec55f2026-09-07 90ec55f 48,413 BA view · diff
git:20260831.9fc50b02026-08-31 9fc50b0 48,770 BA view · diff
git:20260817.c579bb42026-08-17 c579bb4 48,792 BA view · diff
git:20260810.54b4e192026-08-10 54b4e19 48,461 BA view · diff
git:20260803.baf3ca12026-08-03 baf3ca1 41,470 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (49199 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

microsoftdocs/agent-skills · 806 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dvz2ya7443mgb4dc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-arc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/67c7fda44938433447777874a1dfd9b7cd1cd2d83e28f603d3b21a43238c897b

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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