Azure OpenAI .NET

by microsoft

Azure OpenAI .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 OpenAI .NET

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

What Azure OpenAI .NET does

Azure OpenAI .NET provides .NET client libraries for Azure OpenAI and OpenAI services. Use it for chat completions, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription, and assistants.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure.AI.OpenAI (.NET)

Client library for Azure OpenAI Service providing access to OpenAI models including GPT-4, GPT-4o, embeddings, DALL-E, and Whisper.

Installation

dotnet add package Azure.AI.OpenAI

# For OpenAI (non-Azure) compatibility
dotnet add package OpenAI

Current Version: 2.1.0 (stable)

Environment Variables

AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT=https://<resource-name>.openai.azure.com  # Required: Azure OpenAI endpoint
AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY=<api-key>  # Only required for AzureKeyCredential auth
AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME=gpt-4o-mini  # Required: model deployment name
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod  # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production

Client Hierarchy

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

Frequently asked about Azure OpenAI .NET

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure OpenAI .NET?
Azure OpenAI .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 OpenAI .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 OpenAI .NET compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Azure OpenAI .NET ranks #709 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 OpenAI .NET against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.