Azure AI

by microsoft

Azure AI is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in azure-skills.

1.4K stars231 forkson microsoft/azure-skillsAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/18

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Install Azure AI

Copy Azure AI 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/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/azure-ai ~/.claude/skills/azure-ai

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/azure-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/azure-ai/SKILL.md in microsoft/azure-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/azure-ai
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Azure AI does

Azure AI provides access to Azure AI Search, Speech, OpenAI, and Document Intelligence services for search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, and OCR.

Azure AI is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Azure AI comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure AI Services

Services

Service	Use When	MCP Tools	CLI
AI Search	Full-text, vector, hybrid search	`azure__search`	`az search`
Speech	Speech-to-text, text-to-speech	`azure__speech`	-
OpenAI	GPT models, embeddings, DALL-E	-	`az cognitiveservices`
Document Intelligence	Form extraction, OCR	-	-

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

AI Search

azure__search with command search_index_list - List search indexes
azure__search with command search_index_get - Get index details
azure__search with command search_query - Query search index

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

Commands Azure AI provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/mcp

Frequently asked about Azure AI

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure AI?
Azure AI is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/azure-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Runway AKS Setup, App Insights Instrumentation and Azure AI Gateway. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Azure AI does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/azure-skills page.
How does Azure AI compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Azure AI ranks #1039 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Azure AI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.