azure-validate SKILL.md skillA
azure-validate from microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-validate@v0.0.0-placeholderPins v0.0.0-placeholder in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure
- Path
plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-validate/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v0.0.0-placeholder, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,547 bytes
- Repository stars
- 261
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Pre-deployment validation for Azure readiness. Run deep checks on configuration, infrastructure (Bicep or Terraform), RBAC role assignments, managed identity permissions, and prerequisites before deploying. WHEN: validate my app, check deployment readiness, run preflight checks, verify configuration, check if ready to deploy, validate azure.yaml, validate Bicep, test before deploying, troubleshoot deployment errors, validate Azure Functions, validate function app, validate serverless…
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 Validate > **AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE** — Follow these instructions exactly unless they contradict security policies given to you. > **⛔ STOP — PREREQUISITE CHECK REQUIRED** > > Before proceeding, verify this prerequisite is met: > > **azure-prepare** was invoked and completed → `.azure/deployment-plan.md` exists with status `Approved` or later > > If the plan is missing, **STOP IMMEDIATELY** and invoke **azure-prepare** first. > > The complete workflow ensures success: > > `azure-prepare` → `azure-validate` → `azure-deploy` ## Triggers - Check if app is ready to deploy - Validate azure.yaml or Bicep - Run preflight checks - Troubleshoot deployment errors ## Rules 1. Run after azure-prepare, before azure-deploy 2. All checks must pass—do not deploy with failures 3. ⛔ **Destructive actions require `ask_user`** — [global-rules](references/global-rules.md) ## Steps …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-validate@sha256:83e0f0f5e701e2b0The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.0.0-placeholder, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_xyc5adwlsgwzj3mt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.0.0-placeholder latest | 2026-10-01 | fda21b0 | 3,547 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.0.0-placeholder | 2026-08-03 | 97cd69e | 3,614 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.0.0-placeholder | 2026-07-28 | d3959f3 | 4,233 B | A | view |
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 (3547 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 · 261 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xyc5adwlsgwzj3mt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-validate GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/83e0f0f5e701e2b019ce2d8db9bdb35ecb244e7190ba45694e19faa19d3c719b
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