Auth

by microsoft

Auth is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

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Install Auth

Copy Auth into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/.agents/skills/auth ~/.claude/skills/auth

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/auth/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/auth
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Auth does

Auth centralizes token management and credential resolution for the APM CLI, including GitHub and Azure DevOps PATs and az CLI bearer fallback. Activate when code touches authentication, tokens, git remote access, or credential errors.

Auth is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Auth comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Auth Skill

Auth expert persona

When to activate

Any change to src/apm_cli/core/auth.py or src/apm_cli/core/token_manager.py
Code that reads GITHUB_APM_PAT, GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_TOKEN, ADO_APM_PAT
Code using git ls-remote, git clone, or GitHub/ADO API calls
Error messages mentioning tokens, authentication, or credentials
Changes to github_downloader.py auth paths
Per-host or per-org token resolution logic

Key rule

All auth flows MUST go through AuthResolver. No direct os.getenv() for token variables in application code.

Canonical reference

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Auth

What else does microsoft publish alongside Auth?
Auth is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Auth does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.
How does Auth compare to other DevOps skills?
Auth ranks #195 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Auth against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.