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Azure Validate

Official
microsoft·vlatest·cloud·MIT

Official microsoft skill covering Azure, validation for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure.

Repository

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/azure-skills --skill azure-validate -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 1 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: developer.hashicorp.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

    developer.hashicorp.comundeclared

    What it found (3 of 4)

    • .github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-validate/references/recipes/terraform/scripts/validate-terraform.ps1:52contacts developer.hashicorp.com
      Add-Result "Terraform installed" "FAIL" "terraform not found on PATH. Install: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install"
    • .github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-validate/references/recipes/terraform/scripts/validate-terraform.sh:52contacts developer.hashicorp.com
      record "Terraform installed" "FAIL" "terraform not found on PATH. Install: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install"
    • skills/azure-validate/references/recipes/terraform/scripts/validate-terraform.ps1:52contacts developer.hashicorp.com
      Add-Result "Terraform installed" "FAIL" "terraform not found on PATH. Install: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/install"

  • 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 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

    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/azure-skills at 9bb168c343.

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

Commit
9bb168c343
Manifest
skills/azure-validate/SKILL.md
Scanned
54 files, 4,906 lines
Copies in repo
2 — all of them scanned
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About this skill

What it does

The microsoft-azure-validate skill provides validation capabilities specifically tailored to Microsoft Azure resources. It can verify configurations, policies, and compliance against defined standards within an Azure environment. This helps ensure that deployed resources adhere to best practices and organizational guidelines, reducing potential errors and security risks.

When to use it

  • Compliance Checks: Regularly assess your Azure infrastructure for adherence to industry regulations or internal security policies.
  • Configuration Verification: Validate the configuration of new or existing Azure resources before they are put into production.
  • Policy Enforcement: Ensure that resource deployments comply with defined Azure Policy rules and governance standards.
  • Automated Audits: Integrate validation checks into automated workflows for continuous monitoring and remediation.

Key capabilities

  • Azure Resource Validation
  • Configuration Verification
  • Policy Compliance Checks
  • Standards Adherence

Example prompts

  • "Validate the configuration of my Azure virtual machine against security best practices."
  • "Check if my storage account complies with the company's data encryption policy."
  • "Run a compliance audit on all resources in the 'production' resource group."

Tips & gotchas

  • Requires appropriate permissions within your Azure environment to access and validate resources.
  • The specific validation checks available depend on the configured policies and standards.