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Azure Compute Skill

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microsoft·vlatest·cloud

Manage Azure virtual machines, scale sets, and related compute resources programmatically through Microsoft's azure-compute skill.

Repositoryskills.sh

Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure --skill azure-compute --full-depth -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

microsoft

Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 2 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: prices.azure.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    prices.azure.comundeclared

    What it found (3 of 8)

    • plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/references/retail-prices-api.md:27contacts prices.azure.com
      curl -s "https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?\$filter=serviceName%20eq%20'Virtual%20Machines'%20and%20armRegionName%20eq%20'eastus'%20and%20armSkuName%2…
    • plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/references/retail-prices-api.md:32contacts prices.azure.com
      $response = Invoke-RestMethod "https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?`$filter=$filter"
    • plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/references/retail-prices-api.md:43contacts prices.azure.com
      curl -s "https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?\$filter=serviceName%20eq%20'Virtual%20Machines'%20and%20armRegionName%20eq%20'eastus'%20and%20contains(arm…

  • No credential access: failed

    Touches credential material in 11 places.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

    What it found (3 of 11)

    • plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/workflows/vm-creator/examples/bicep/README.md:16SSH private keys or config
      --parameters vmName={vmName} adminUsername={adminUsername} adminPublicKey="$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)"
    • plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/workflows/vm-creator/examples/bicep/README.md:21SSH private keys or config
      --parameters vmName={vmName} adminUsername={adminUsername} adminPublicKey="$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)"
    • plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/workflows/vm-creator/examples/terraform/README.md:16SSH private keys or config
      terraform plan  -var "vm_name=dev-vm" -var "admin_public_key=$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)" -var "subscription_id=$AZ_SUB" -var "resource_group_name=dev-vm-rg" -var…

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure at f2526ae581.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
f2526ae581
Manifest
plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-compute/SKILL.md
Scanned
38 files, 2,326 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

The azure-compute skill enables AI agents to manage and interact with Azure Compute resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), scale sets, and containers. It provides capabilities for provisioning, configuring, and monitoring compute instances within the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

When to use it

  • Automating the deployment of new virtual machines in Azure for development or production environments.
  • Scaling compute resources dynamically based on workload demands using Azure Scale Sets.
  • Managing containerized applications with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances.

Key capabilities

  • Provision and manage Azure Virtual Machines
  • Configure and monitor Azure Compute Scale Sets
  • Deploy and manage containers in Azure

Example prompts

  • "Create a new virtual machine in Azure with Ubuntu OS and 4GB RAM."
  • "Scale up the compute resources of my web application using Azure Scale Sets."
  • "Deploy a containerized app to Azure Container Instances."

Tips & gotchas

  • Ensure you have appropriate Azure credentials and permissions before deploying or managing resources.
  • Be mindful of costs, as provisioning and running compute instances can incur charges based on usage.