Azure AI Gateway

by microsoft

Azure AI Gateway 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 Gateway

Copy Azure AI Gateway 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-aigateway ~/.claude/skills/azure-aigateway

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

What Azure AI Gateway does

Azure AI Gateway configures Azure API Management as an AI gateway for governing AI models, MCP tools, and agents. Use it for semantic caching, token limits, content safety, load balancing, and AI cost control.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure AI Gateway

Configure Azure API Management (APIM) as an AI Gateway for governing AI models, MCP tools, and agents.

To deploy APIM, use the azure-prepare skill. See APIM deployment guide.

When to Use This Skill

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

Frequently asked about Azure AI Gateway

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure AI Gateway?
Azure AI Gateway 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. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Azure AI Gateway 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 Gateway compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Azure AI Gateway ranks #1040 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 Gateway against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.