Azure AI Projects .NET

by microsoft

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

2.9K stars331 forkson microsoft/skillsAdded 2026/08/17+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/14

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Install Azure AI Projects .NET

Copy Azure AI Projects .NET 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/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-dotnet/skills/azure-ai-projects-dotnet ~/.claude/skills/azure-ai-projects-dotnet

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/skills.git

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

In this catalog

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

What Azure AI Projects .NET does

Azure AI Projects .NET provides a high-level client for Azure AI Foundry projects, including agents, connections, datasets, deployments, evaluations, and indexes. Use it for AI Foundry project management, versioned agents, and orchestration.

Azure AI Projects .NET is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Azure AI Projects .NET comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, azure, foundry and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure.AI.Projects (.NET)

High-level SDK for Azure AI Foundry project operations including agents, connections, datasets, deployments, evaluations, and indexes.

Installation

dotnet add package Azure.AI.Projects
dotnet add package Azure.Identity

# Optional: For versioned agents with OpenAI extensions
dotnet add package Azure.AI.Projects.OpenAI --prerelease

# Optional: For low-level agent operations
dotnet add package Azure.AI.Agents.Persistent --prerelease

Current Versions: GA v1.1.0, Preview v1.2.0-beta.5

Environment Variables

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

Frequently asked about Azure AI Projects .NET

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure AI Projects .NET?
Azure AI Projects .NET is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Application Insights Web, Azure AI Agents Persistent .NET and Azure AI Document Intelligence .NET. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Azure AI Projects .NET does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/skills page.
How does Azure AI Projects .NET compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Azure AI Projects .NET ranks #707 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 Projects .NET against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.