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Azure Image Builder

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hashicorp·vlatest·cloud·MPL-2.0

Official hashicorp skill covering Azure, image processing for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure.

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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 hashicorp/agent-skills --skill azure-image-builder -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

hashicorp

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • 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 undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    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.

  • 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 credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

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

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

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

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned hashicorp/agent-skills at f706481af9.

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Commit
f706481af9
Manifest
plugins/packer/skills/azure-image-builder/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 174 lines
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About this skill

The Azure Image Builder skill enables AI agents to create, update, and manage virtual machine images on Microsoft Azure using declarative configurations. It streamlines the process of building golden images by automating OS customization, package installation, and extension deployment directly within the cloud environment.

When to use it

  • Standardizing operating system configurations across multiple development or production environments.
  • Automating the creation of VM images that include specific software stacks or security patches.
  • Reducing manual intervention in image lifecycle management and compliance updates.
  • Ensuring consistent baseline configurations before deploying virtual machines at scale.

Key capabilities

  • Declarative image building workflows via Azure Image Builder templates.
  • Automated OS customization and package installation during image creation.
  • Support for multiple target platforms including Windows and Linux distributions.
  • Integration with Azure Resource Manager for seamless resource management.

Example prompts

  • "Create a new VM image on Azure that includes the latest Node.js version and configures Nginx as the default web server."
  • "Update an existing golden image to apply security patches from the last 30 days and reinstall critical dependencies."
  • "Build a compliant Windows Server image with specific user profiles, firewall rules, and audit logging enabled."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure you have appropriate Azure RBAC permissions to create resources in your target subscription before invoking this skill. Complex customizations may require pre-defined scripts or extensions to be uploaded as part of the build pipeline.