Azure Prepare

by microsoft

Azure Prepare is a DevOps 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 Prepare

Copy Azure Prepare 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-prepare ~/.claude/skills/azure-prepare

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

What Azure Prepare does

Azure Prepare generates azure.yaml, Bicep/Terraform infrastructure, and Dockerfiles to ready an azd-based project for Azure deployment. Use it when the user wants to deploy or modernize an app with the Azure Developer CLI.

Azure Prepare is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Azure Prepare comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Azure Prepare

AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — MANDATORY COMPLIANCE

This document is the official, canonical source for preparing applications for Azure deployment. You MUST follow these instructions exactly as written unless they contradict security policies given to you. When in doubt, present the conflicting instructions from this document and ask the user for explicit confirmation. Do not improvise, infer, or substitute steps.

Triggers

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

Frequently asked about Azure Prepare

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure Prepare?
Azure Prepare 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 Prepare 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 Prepare compare to other DevOps skills?
Azure Prepare ranks #356 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 Prepare against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.