Azure Developer CLI on Top AI Skills

azure-validate: The Gatekeeper Skill for Azure Deployments

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most Azure failures surface at deploy time, when they cost hours. Microsoft’s azure-validate skill (v1.2.2) exists to move that discovery earlier — it runs nine validation gates against your plan, your infrastructure code, and your role assignments before anything ships. I read the full SKILL.md, the workflow script, the role-verification reference, and the azd recipe in microsoft/azure-skills. The 2026-09-12 skills.sh scrape put it at 576,757 installs, rank 24. The deploy trio — azure-prepare 577,556, azure-deploy 577,309, azure-validate 576,757 — each grew by roughly 12,000 installs in the six days since our last scrape, gaps between them barely moving.

azure-prepare: The Plan-First Azure Deployment Skill

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The fix for most Azure deployment failures is a file on disk. Microsoft’s azure-prepare skill (v1.3.2, 565.5K installs) writes .azure/deployment-plan.md into your workspace as its very first action and refuses to generate any infrastructure until you approve it. The classic failure sequence — wrong region, exhausted quota, secrets in templates — becomes visible before it costs you anything. I read the full SKILL.md plus the plan-template, recipe-selection, specialized-routing, and security references in microsoft/azure-skills. On the 2026-09-06 skills.sh scrape, it held 565,497 installs, the second-highest count in the pack.

Deploy to Azure Without Surprises: The 10-Step azure-deploy Runbook

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your Container App revision hangs in provisioning for fifteen minutes, then fails: the image-pull permission exists on paper but had not propagated. Failures like that are why Microsoft’s azure-deploy skill (v1.2.1, 565.4K installs) refuses to run until validation has written receipts, and why its runbook puts a propagation gate between provisioning and image deployment. I read the SKILL.md, its 508-line pre-deploy checklist, and the troubleshooting reference in microsoft/azure-skills. The 2026-09-06 skills.sh scrape put it at 565,378 installs — fifty short of its prepare sibling.