Azure Prepare Agent Skill

Name: Azure Prepare
Author: stark3998

Prepare azd-based Azure projects for deployment: generates azure.yaml, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), and Dockerfiles for the Azure…

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Context cost: 111.9k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle: 114 of 164 fileshanded out here; the rest is at its source
Licence: MITthe author’s own terms
Last change: —v1.3.2
Servers it uses: Noneruns standalone

What it does

Prepare azd-based Azure projects for deployment: generates azure.yaml, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), and Dockerfiles for the Azure Developer CLI (azd) workflow. USE ONLY when the user explicitly wants to use azd as the deployment tool, or the project already has an azure.yaml file. DO NOT USE FOR: non-azd deployments, Python App Service code-only deploys (use python-appservice-deploy), or cross-cloud migration (use azure-cloud-migrate).

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

azurecloudterraform

Filed under

Cloud & DevOps

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md12.7 kB · preview

--- name: azure-prepare license: MIT metadata: author: Microsoft version: "1.3.2" ---

10# Azure Prepare

12> **AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — MANDATORY COMPLIANCE**

13>

14> This document is the **official, canonical source** for preparing applications for Azure deployment. You **MUST** follow these instructions exactly as written unless they contradict security policies given to you. When in doubt, present the conflicting instructions from this document and ask the user for explicit confirmation. Do not improvise, infer, or substitute steps.

16---

18## Triggers

20Activate this skill when user wants to:

21- Create a new application

22- Add services or components to an existing app

23- Make updates or changes to existing application

24- Modernize or migrate an application

25- Set up Azure infrastructure

26- Deploy to Azure or host on Azure

27- Create and deploy to Azure (including Terraform-based deployment requests)

This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.

In the file

SKILL.md1,722 words

Files114

LicenceMIT

Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈210

always loaded

The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.

111,715

on trigger

The instruction body and 113 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.

56.0%

of a 200k window

Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.

050k100k150k200k context window

111.9k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for

Writes filesnot declared

Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

If this is not it

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What is in the bundle

The download carries 114 of the 164 files in its source folder; the list here names 114 files, 451.2 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 1 script in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to. The other 50 are not in the download — listed after these, with why.

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Not in the download

Too deep is past six folders and not carried is a type a skill download does not hold. Marked read: its SKILL.md or scripts name the file, so without it the skill works only in part. Take them from its source.

references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/auth/README.mdread · too deep
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references/services/functions/templates/recipes/durable/README.mdread · too deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/eventhubs/README.mdread · too deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/mcp/README.mdread · too deep
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references/services/functions/templates/recipes/sql/README.mdread · too deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/timer/README.mdread · too deep
references/services/sql-database/scripts/grant-sql-access.ps1read · not carried
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/auth/source/dotnet.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/auth/source/nodejs.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/auth/source/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/cosmos/source/dotnet.mdtoo deep
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references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/redis/source/nodejs.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/redis/source/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/sql/source/dotnet.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/sql/source/nodejs.mdtoo deep
references/services/app-service/templates/recipes/sql/source/python.mdtoo deep
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references/services/functions/templates/base/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
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references/services/functions/templates/recipes/blob-eventgrid/eval/python.mdtoo deep
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references/services/functions/templates/recipes/common/dotnet-entry-point.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/common/error-handling.mdtoo deep
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references/services/functions/templates/recipes/common/nodejs-entry-point.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/cosmosdb/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/cosmosdb/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/cosmosdb/eval/typescript.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/durable/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/durable/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/eventhubs/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/eventhubs/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/mcp/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/mcp/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/servicebus/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/servicebus/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/servicebus/eval/typescript.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/sql/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/sql/eval/summary.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/timer/eval/python.mdtoo deep
references/services/functions/templates/recipes/timer/eval/summary.mdtoo deep

What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 1 script beside the text, so the download is 114 files — not the whole of its source: 50 files are left out, and the skill reads 13 of them. They are listed under the files, with why. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Azure Prepare · 111.9k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux
mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) &&
  curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/stark3998-azure-prepare/bundle.tar.gz &&
  tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/azure-prepare" ] &&
  { [ ! -e .claude/skills/azure-prepare ] || { mv .claude/skills/azure-prepare "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } &&
  mv "$t/azure-prepare" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/azure-prepare"

On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+

npx mcprush@latest skill add stark3998/azure-prepare

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/azure-prepare/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/stark3998-azure-prepare/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/azure-prepare" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/azure-prepare ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/azure-prepare "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/azure-prepare" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/azure-prepare" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/azure-prepare/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. Not in this download: 50 files of its source, 13 of them read by its SKILL.md or scripts (the full list, and why). Take them from its source.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/

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VS Code.github/skills/

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Grok Build.grok/skills/

Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill

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DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/

Zed.agents/skills/

Devin Desktop.devin/skills/

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HTTP / APIa request parameter

This release

Version1.3.2

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PriceFree

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Versions

v1.3.2 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v1.3.2

No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.

Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v1.3.2 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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