Cloud Operations on Top AI Skills

Check Azure Quotas Before Deploy: The CLI-First Workflow

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

Your deploy fails at the last step with QuotaExceeded, and the portal shows “No Limit” for the very resource that just rejected you. That contradiction is the whole story of Azure quota management, and Microsoft’s azure-quotas skill (v1.2.1, 427.6K installs, #94 on the skills.sh all-time board) exists to kill it. I read the full SKILL.md, the commands reference, the advanced commands file, and the bundled check-quota scripts, then pulled leaderboard numbers on 2026-09-02. This guide runs the skill’s workflow top to bottom.

azure-compute: Microsoft's Four-Workflow VM and VMSS Skill

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ask “which VM should I pick?” and most agents guess from memory. Azure’s answer is a 2,619-byte router called azure-compute that refuses to guess: it classifies your intent, opens one of four workflow files, and only then touches references. I read the current SKILL.md (v2.5.1, MIT) plus all four workflows and four reference guides, then pulled install numbers from the skills.sh leaderboard on 2026-09-01 — the file is a router, the numbers are a pack counter, and both deserve explaining.

azure-messaging: Microsoft's Event Hubs & Service Bus SDK Skill

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Debug a .NET Event Hubs consumer that lost its lock and you will not find the answer inside azure-messaging. The skill is a 3,282-byte router: it reads the SDK error, picks the right MCP tool, and sends you to eleven language-specific guides that live in its sibling skill. I read the current SKILL.md (v1.2.1, MIT) and pulled installs from skills.sh on 2026-08-31 — the routing table and the pack curve both tell a story the headline number hides.

azure-diagnostics: Microsoft's 553K-Install Debugging Skill

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft’s azure-diagnostics skill tops its own microsoft/azure-skills repo’s leaderboard right now. 553,878 installs, rank #43 on skills.sh in my 2026-08-30 scrape. The skill doesn’t fix your Azure outage. It runs the triage that decides where the fix lives, then hands you the right document and the right MCP tool. I read the current SKILL.md (v1.2.6, MIT, 6,371 bytes) and pulled every azure skill’s install curve. The curves turned out to be the more interesting half of this article.