Azure Skills Roundup: Spot the 4 Removed Skills
4 microsoft/azure-skills - azure-rbac, azure-hosted-copilot-sdk, cost-optimization, observability - deleted while install totals kept climbing.
Azure AI is a skills.sh skill that exposes Azure AI Search, Speech, OpenAI, and Document Intelligence as agent-callable tools through a single MCP server interface.
Azure Deploy automates Azure resource provisioning through your coding agent. Describe what you need, it handles templates and dependency ordering.
Inside Microsoft’s azure-cloud-migrate skill (491K installs, #67): an 8-scenario router that assesses and converts Lambda, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot apps.
Inside microsoft’s azure-compute skill (499K installs): four VM workflows, an unauthenticated pricing API, a banned quota MCP server, and pack-curve math.
Microsoft’s azure-diagnostics skill (553,878 installs) triages App Service, AKS, VM, and messaging outages via AppLens MCP. Pack-curve audit inside.
Microsoft’s azure-enterprise-infra-planner (399K installs) plans Azure infra via a gated 7-phase pipeline, then generates checkov-clean Bicep or Terraform.
Inside Microsoft’s azure-kubernetes skill (389K installs): the Day-0 framework that locks in AKS networking, plus spot and autoscaler hard numbers.
Microsoft azure-messaging (542,562 installs) routes Event Hubs and Service Bus SDK errors to 11 per-language guides. MCP contract and pack-curve audit inside.
Azure’s azure-rbac skill hit #62 with 485,620 installs, then got removed from its repo in July 2026. What it did, and where the RBAC guidance went.
What Microsoft’s azure-upgrade skill (424K installs) automates: Consumption to Flex, Redis to Managed Redis, Java SDK rewrites - gated by assessment first.
Part of Microsoft’s official azure-skills plugin. Gives AI agents direct access to Microsoft Foundry for model discovery, deployment, and agent workflow management via MCP.
4 microsoft/azure-skills - azure-rbac, azure-hosted-copilot-sdk, cost-optimization, observability - deleted while install totals kept climbing.
Which Azure planner fits: infra-planner architects greenfield Bicep/Terraform; cloud-migrate ports Lambda, K8s, Spring Boot. Phase gates, install data compared.
A procedural guide to Microsoft’s azure-quotas skill (427K installs): install the quota extension, discover real quota names, and file CLI increase requests.
Microsoft’s official Azure skill for AI model management — browse, deploy, and configure models through your AI assistant using MCP