azure-vm-scalesets SKILL.md skillA

azure-vm-scalesets 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-vm-scalesets@git:20261019.33e9630

Pins git:20261019.33e9630 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-vm-scalesets/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261019.33e9630, committed Oct 19, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 2, 2026
Size
16,831 bytes
Repository stars
806
License
CC-BY-4.0

Expert knowledge for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when configuring autoscale/standby pools, zone-balancing, disk encryption with Key Vault, or rolling upgrades, and other Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets related development tasks. Not for Azure Virtual Machines (use 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 Virtual Machine Scale Sets Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. 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:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-vm-scalesets@sha256:711587db4cdf0c73

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.33e9630, 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_om5phfmbdpvyikei.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_om5phfmbdpvyikei)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 28 days.

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git:20261019.33e9630 latest2026-10-19 33e9630 16,831 BA view · diff
git:20260914.d5ad4642026-09-14 d5ad464 16,977 BA view · diff
git:20260907.90ec55f2026-09-07 90ec55f 16,654 BA view · diff
git:20260803.baf3ca12026-08-03 baf3ca1 16,678 BA view · diff
git:20260630.07c8bbe2026-06-30 07c8bbe 16,641 BA view · diff
git:20260602.aab6d782026-06-02 aab6d78 16,629 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 (16831 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_om5phfmbdpvyikei
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-vm-scalesets
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/711587db4cdf0c73381f1108cdf815dfddef70090ef6296e67f8e5752086671c

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