Cloud Migration on Top AI Skills

Azure Planner Skills: infra-planner vs cloud-migrate

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft’s azure-skills pack carries two planning skills, and people install the wrong one constantly. azure-enterprise-infra-planner architects landing zones; azure-cloud-migrate ports existing workloads from AWS, GCP, and K8s. I read both SKILL.md files in full (planner v1.4.1, migrator v1.3.2, both MIT), worked through the planner’s phase-gate workflow and the migrator’s 37-file reference tree, then scraped the skills.sh leaderboard on 2026-09-04: infra-planner sits at #121 with 398.4K installs, cloud-migrate at #68 with 495.6K.

azure-upgrade: Assess, Then Migrate Azure Plans and SKUs

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most Azure upgrades get attempted as a chain of CLI commands typed from memory. Microsoft’s azure-upgrade skill refuses that pattern: it produces an assessment report before it changes anything, and it documents rollback before it executes. I read the current SKILL.md (v1.2.1, MIT), the workflow-details and global-rules files, plus the functions, Redis, and Java scenario references, then pulled install numbers off the skills.sh leaderboard on 2026-09-04.

The Seven-Step Flow Gates Every Upgrade

The pipeline runs Identify → Assess → Pre-migrate → Upgrade → Validate → Ask User → hand off. No phase is skippable, and a failure inside any phase stops the run: log it in upgrade-status.md, do not proceed, tell the user what broke, offer retry or rollback.

azure-cloud-migrate: Microsoft's 8-Scenario Migration Skill

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Migrate a Lambda function to Azure and most agents start rewriting handler code from memory. Microsoft’s azure-cloud-migrate skill does the opposite: it demands an assessment report before any code conversion, then routes you into one of eight scenario-specific guides. I read the current SKILL.md (v1.3.2, MIT) plus the full 37-file reference tree — three service families, per-runtime migration rules, and a progress-tracking convention — then pulled install numbers from the skills.sh leaderboard on 2026-09-02.