Azure Vms
Manage Azure Virtual Machines: start, stop, list, and retrieve details about your VMs using natural language commands.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add azure-vms npx -- -y @trustedskills/azure-vms
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"azure-vms": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/azure-vms"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill allows AI agents to interact with and manage Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). It can retrieve information about existing VMs, start or stop them, and potentially perform other management tasks. The agent can leverage this skill for automating routine VM operations and providing insights into their status.
When to use it
- Troubleshooting: Quickly check the status of a specific Azure VM to diagnose performance issues or errors.
- Scheduled Maintenance: Automatically start and stop VMs based on predefined schedules, optimizing resource usage and costs.
- Resource Monitoring: Gather information about VM CPU utilization, memory consumption, and other metrics for reporting and analysis.
- Automated Deployment: Integrate with deployment pipelines to manage the lifecycle of VMs as part of application deployments.
Key capabilities
- Retrieve Azure VM details (status, size, location)
- Start/Stop Azure VMs
- Potentially perform other management tasks (not explicitly listed in source)
Example prompts
- "What is the status of my webserver-vm?"
- "Please stop the database-vm at 6 PM EST."
- "Show me a list of all running VMs in the 'eastus' region."
Tips & gotchas
Requires appropriate Azure credentials and permissions for the AI agent to access and manage virtual machines. The specific actions available may be limited by the configured role assignments within your Azure environment.
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