Azure Identity .NET

by microsoft

Azure Identity .NET is a DevOps 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 Identity .NET

Copy Azure Identity .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-identity-dotnet ~/.claude/skills/azure-identity-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-identity-dotnet/SKILL.md in microsoft/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/azure-identity-dotnet
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Azure Identity .NET does

Azure Identity .NET provides authentication for Azure SDK clients using Microsoft Entra ID. It covers DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, service principals, and developer credentials for C# applications.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure Identity library for .NET

Authentication library for Azure SDK clients using Microsoft Entra ID.

Installation

dotnet add package Azure.Identity

# For ASP.NET Core integration
dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.Azure

# For brokered authentication and Visual Studio Code credential support
dotnet add package Azure.Identity.Broker

Environment Variables

Service Principal with Secret

AZURE_CLIENT_ID=<application-client-id>
AZURE_TENANT_ID=<directory-tenant-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret-value>

Service Principal with Certificate

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

Frequently asked about Azure Identity .NET

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure Identity .NET?
Azure Identity .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 Identity .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 Identity .NET compare to other DevOps skills?
Azure Identity .NET ranks #234 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 Azure Identity .NET against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.