Claude Skills

Analyze Azure resource groups and generate detailed Mermaid architecture diagrams showing the relationships between individual resources. Use this skill when the user asks for a diagram of their Azure resources or help in understanding how the resources relate to each other.

Azure Networking Services including Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Front Door, and DNS. Covers hub-spoke topology, private endpoint patterns, and network security layers.

Execute Azure deployments after preparation and validation are complete. USE FOR: azd up, azd deploy, push to Azure, publish to Azure, ship to production, launch on Azure, go live, release to Azure, deploy web app, deploy container app, deploy static site, azd provision, infrastructure deployment, bicep deploy, terraform apply. DO NOT USE FOR: preparing new apps (use azure-prepare), validating before deploy (use azure-validate), Azure Functions specifically (use azure-functions).

Identify and quantify cost savings across Azure subscriptions by analyzing actual costs, utilization metrics, and generating actionable optimization recommendations. USE FOR: optimize Azure costs, reduce Azure spending, analyze Azure costs, find cost savings, generate cost optimization report, find orphaned resources, rightsize VMs, cost analysis, reduce waste, Azure spending analysis, find unused resources, optimize Redis costs. DO NOT USE FOR: cost estimation for new resources (use azure-cost-estimation), deploying resources (use azure-deploy), general Azure diagnostics (use azure-diagnostics), security issues (use azure-security)

Estimate Azure deployment costs before provisioning by analyzing Bicep and ARM templates. Supports VMs, Storage, SQL Database, App Service, AKS, Container Apps, and more. USE FOR: cost estimation, pricing estimates, how much will deployment cost, estimate Azure costs, calculate monthly costs, compare pricing across regions, analyze template costs, budget planning, infrastructure cost breakdown. DO NOT USE FOR: deploying resources (use azure-deploy), optimizing existing resources (use azure-cost-optimization), monitoring actual spending (use azure-observability), creating templates (use azure-create-app).

Validate deployment readiness before shipping to Azure. USE THIS SKILL when users want to check if their app is ready to deploy, validate azure.yaml or Bicep configuration, run preflight checks, test deployment preview, or troubleshoot deployment errors.

Expert in Microsoft Entra app registration. Use this skill to help with understanding OAuth protocol, Entra concepts, creating the first Entra app registration and integrating OAuth flow in an example console application.

Use this skill to work with Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry): deploy AI models from catalog, build RAG applications with knowledge indexes, create and evaluate AI agents. USE FOR: Microsoft Foundry, AI Foundry, deploy model, model catalog, RAG, knowledge index, create agent, evaluate agent, agent monitoring. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure Functions (use azure-functions), App Service (use azure-create-app).

Performs Azure compliance assessments using Azure Quick Review (azqr) to identify resources that don't comply with Azure best practices. Use this skill when users ask to check compliance, assess Azure resources, run azqr, identify best practice violations, find orphaned resources, or review Azure resource configurations. Activate when users mention compliance scan, resource review, Azure assessment, or security posture evaluation.

Use when invalid data causes failures deep in execution - validates at every layer data passes through to make bugs structurally impossible rather than temporarily fixed

Use when creating specialized subagents for Claude Code plugins or the Task tool - covers description writing for auto-delegation, tool selection, prompt structure, and testing agents

Use when creating or editing skills, before deployment, to verify they work under pressure and resist rationalization - applies RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle to process documentation by running baseline without skill, writing to address failures, iterating to close loopholes

Use when writing instructions that guide Claude behavior - skills, CLAUDE.md files, agent prompts, system prompts. Covers token efficiency, compliance techniques, and discovery optimization.

Use when creating or developing anything, before writing code or implementation plans - refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured Socratic questioning, alternative exploration, and incremental validation

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session - dispatches fresh subagent for each task, reviews once per phase, loads phases just-in-time to minimize context usage

Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing, before committing or creating PRs - requires running verification commands and confirming output before making any success claims; evidence before assertions always

Use when planning features and need current API docs, library patterns, or external knowledge; when testing hypotheses about technology choices or claims; when verifying assumptions before design decisions - gathers well-sourced, current information from the internet to inform technical decisions

Use to decide what kind of generic agent you should use

Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup