discover-azure-skills skillA
discover-azure-skills is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure: 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..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
Follow these steps to discover the available azure skill matching the given task description.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Discover the plugin name of the relevant skills
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/discover-azure-skills@v0.0.0-placeholdermdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/discover-azure-skills@sha256:d9c06d02d1ac53b4Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_khddeckt7b7s5pi4)
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Versions
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2328 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
microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure · 252 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_khddeckt7b7s5pi4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/discover-azure-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d9c06d02d1ac53b49702ad5e32ba79e382886c9c9aa231f6a6d1fad9a641e045
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