Development Skills

Azure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python. Use for ML workspaces, jobs, models, datasets, compute, and pipelines. Triggers: "azure-ai-ml", "MLClient", "workspace", "model registry", "training jobs", "datasets".

Azure OpenAI SDK for .NET. Client library for Azure OpenAI and OpenAI services. Use for chat completions, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription, and assistants. Triggers: "Azure OpenAI", "AzureOpenAIClient", "ChatClient", "chat completions .NET", "GPT-4", "embeddings", "DALL-E", "Whisper", "OpenAI .NET".

Azure AI Projects SDK for .NET. High-level client for Azure AI Foundry projects including agents, connections, datasets, deployments, evaluations, and indexes. Use for AI Foundry project management, versioned agents, and orchestration. Triggers: "AI Projects", "AIProjectClient", "Foundry project", "versioned agents", "evaluations", "datasets", "connections", "deployments .NET".

Azure AI Projects SDK for Java. High-level SDK for Azure AI Foundry project management including connections, datasets, indexes, and evaluations. Triggers: "AIProjectClient java", "azure ai projects java", "Foundry project java", "ConnectionsClient", "DatasetsClient", "IndexesClient".

Build AI applications using the Azure AI Projects Python SDK (azure-ai-projects). Use when working with Foundry project clients, creating versioned agents with PromptAgentDefinition, running evaluations, managing connections/deployments/datasets/indexes, or using OpenAI-compatible clients. This is the high-level Foundry SDK - for low-level agent operations, use azure-ai-agents-python skill.

Build AI applications using Azure AI Projects SDK for JavaScript (@azure/ai-projects). Use when working with Foundry project clients, agents, connections, deployments, datasets, indexes, evaluations, or getting OpenAI clients.

Azure AI Text Analytics SDK for sentiment analysis, entity recognition, key phrases, language detection, PII, and healthcare NLP. Use for natural language processing on text. Triggers: "text analytics", "sentiment analysis", "entity recognition", "key phrase", "PII detection", "TextAnalyticsClient".

Azure AI Transcription SDK for Python. Use for real-time and batch speech-to-text transcription with timestamps and diarization. Triggers: "transcription", "speech to text", "Azure AI Transcription", "TranscriptionClient".

Azure AI Document Translation SDK for batch translation of documents with format preservation. Use for translating Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, and other document formats at scale. Triggers: "document translation", "batch translation", "translate documents", "DocumentTranslationClient".

Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications. Triggers: "text translation", "translator", "translate text", "transliterate", "TextTranslationClient".

Build translation applications using Azure Translation SDKs for JavaScript (@azure-rest/ai-translation-text, @azure-rest/ai-translation-document). Use when implementing text translation, transliteration, language detection, or batch document translation.

Build image analysis applications with Azure AI Vision SDK for Java. Use when implementing image captioning, OCR text extraction, object detection, tagging, or smart cropping.

Azure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. Use for computer vision and image understanding tasks. Triggers: "image analysis", "computer vision", "OCR", "object detection", "ImageAnalysisClient", "image caption".

Azure AI Voice Live SDK for .NET. Build real-time voice AI applications with bidirectional WebSocket communication. Use for voice assistants, conversational AI, real-time speech-to-speech, and voice-enabled chatbots. Triggers: "voice live", "real-time voice", "VoiceLiveClient", "VoiceLiveSession", "voice assistant .NET", "bidirectional audio", "speech-to-speech".

Azure AI VoiceLive SDK for Java. Real-time bidirectional voice conversations with AI assistants using WebSocket. Triggers: "VoiceLiveClient java", "voice assistant java", "real-time voice java", "audio streaming java", "voice activity detection java".

Build real-time voice AI applications using Azure AI Voice Live SDK (azure-ai-voicelive). Use this skill when creating Python applications that need real-time bidirectional audio communication with Azure AI, including voice assistants, voice-enabled chatbots, real-time speech-to-speech translation, voice-driven avatars, or any WebSocket-based audio streaming with AI models. Supports Server VAD (Voice Activity Detection), turn-based conversation, function calling, MCP tools, avatar integration, and transcription.

Azure AI Voice Live SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript. Build real-time voice AI applications with bidirectional WebSocket communication. Use for voice assistants, conversational AI, real-time speech-to-speech, and voice-enabled chatbots in Node.js or browser environments. Triggers: "voice live", "real-time voice", "VoiceLiveClient", "VoiceLiveSession", "voice assistant TypeScript", "bidirectional audio", "speech-to-speech JavaScript".

Configure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents. WHEN: semantic caching, token limit, content safety, load balancing, AI model governance, MCP rate limiting, jailbreak detection, add Azure OpenAI backend, add AI Foundry model, test AI gateway, LLM policies, configure AI backend, token metrics, AI cost control, convert API to MCP, import OpenAPI to gateway.

Azure App Configuration SDK for Java. Centralized application configuration management with key-value settings, feature flags, and snapshots. Triggers: "ConfigurationClient java", "app configuration java", "feature flag java", "configuration setting java", "azure config java".

Azure App Configuration SDK for Python. Use for centralized configuration management, feature flags, and dynamic settings. Triggers: "azure-appconfiguration", "AzureAppConfigurationClient", "feature flags", "configuration", "key-value settings".

Build applications using Azure App Configuration SDK for JavaScript (@azure/app-configuration). Use when working with configuration settings, feature flags, Key Vault references, dynamic refresh, or centralized configuration management.

Assess and migrate cross-cloud workloads to Azure with migration reports and code conversion. Supports Lambda→Functions, Fargate→Container Apps, Kubernetes→Container Apps, Cloud Run→Container Apps. WHEN: migrate Lambda to Functions, AWS to Azure, Lambda assessment, convert serverless, readiness report, from AWS, from GCP, Cloud Run migration, Fargate to ACA, ECS to Container Apps, Kubernetes to ACA, GKE to Azure, EKS to Container Apps.

Run Azure compliance and security audits with azqr plus Key Vault expiration checks. Covers best-practice assessment, resource review, policy/compliance validation, and security posture checks. WHEN: compliance scan, security audit, BEFORE running azqr (compliance cli tool), Azure best practices, Key Vault expiration check, expired certificates, expiring secrets, orphaned resources, compliance assessment.

Recommend Azure VM sizes, scale sets, and configurations based on workload requirements and budget. Analyzes workload type, performance needs, scaling requirements, and cost to suggest 2–3 VM or VMSS options with trade-offs Verifies recommendations against live Microsoft documentation; falls back to reference files if fetch fails Queries the unauthenticated Azure Retail Prices API for current pricing without requiring an Azure subscription Guides VM vs VMSS decision through a decision tree...

Unified Azure cost management: query historical costs, forecast future spending, and optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: "Azure costs", "Azure spending", "Azure bill", "cost breakdown", "cost by service", "cost by resource", "how much am I spending", "show my bill", "monthly cost summary", "cost trends", "top cost drivers", "actual cost", "amortized cost", "forecast spending", "projected costs", "estimate bill", "future costs", "budget forecast", "end of month costs", "how much will I spend", "optimize costs", "reduce spending", "find cost savings", "orphaned resources", "rightsize VMs", "cost analysis", "reduce waste", "unused resources", "optimize Redis costs", "cost by tag", "cost by resource group", "AKS cost analysis add-on", "namespace cost", "cost spike", "anomaly", "budget alert", "AKS cost visibility". DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources, provisioning infrastructure, diagnostics, security audits, or estimating costs for new resources not yet deployed.

Execute Azure deployments for ALREADY-PREPARED applications that have existing .azure/deployment-plan.md and infrastructure files. DO NOT use this skill when the user asks to CREATE a new application — use azure-prepare instead. This skill runs azd up, azd deploy, terraform apply, and az deployment commands with built-in error recovery. Requires .azure/deployment-plan.md from azure-prepare and validated status from azure-validate. WHEN: "run azd up", "run azd deploy", "execute deployment", "push to production", "push to cloud", "go live", "ship it", "bicep deploy", "terraform apply", "publish to Azure", "launch on Azure". DO NOT USE WHEN: "create and deploy", "build and deploy", "create a new app", "set up infrastructure", "create and deploy to Azure using Terraform" — use azure-prepare for these.

Systematic diagnosis and remediation for Azure production issues using AppLens, Monitor, and resource health. Covers Container Apps, Function Apps, and AKS troubleshooting with service-specific guides for image pulls, cold starts, health probes, invocation failures, and node/pod issues Integrates AppLens (MCP) for AI-powered root cause analysis and Azure Monitor (MCP) for KQL-based log and metric queries Provides a five-step diagnostic flow: identify symptoms, check resource health, review...

Architect and provision enterprise Azure infrastructure from workload descriptions. For cloud architects and platform engineers planning networking, identity, security, compliance, and multi-resource topologies with WAF alignment. Generates Bicep or Terraform directly (no azd). WHEN: 'plan Azure infrastructure', 'architect Azure landing zone', 'design hub-spoke network', 'plan multi-region DR topology', 'set up VNets firewalls and private endpoints', 'subscription-scope Bicep deployment', 'Azure Backup for VM workloads'. PREFER azure-prepare FOR app-centric workflows.

Azure Event Grid SDK for .NET. Client library for publishing and consuming events with Azure Event Grid. Use for event-driven architectures, pub/sub messaging, CloudEvents, and EventGridEvents. Triggers: "Event Grid", "EventGridPublisherClient", "CloudEvent", "EventGridEvent", "publish events .NET", "event-driven", "pub/sub".

Build event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid SDK for Java. Use when publishing events, implementing pub/sub patterns, or integrating with Azure services via events.