Cloud Solution Architect

by microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect 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 Cloud Solution Architect

Copy Cloud Solution Architect 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/skills/cloud-solution-architect ~/.claude/skills/cloud-solution-architect

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

What Cloud Solution Architect does

Cloud Solution Architect guides agents through designing production-grade Azure cloud systems using Azure Architecture Center best practices, including ten design principles, six architecture styles, 44 cloud design patterns, technology choices, and Well-Architected Framework reviews.

Cloud Solution Architect is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Cloud Solution Architect comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, azure, foundry and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cloud Solution Architect

Overview

Design well-architected, production-grade cloud systems following Azure Architecture Center best practices. This skill provides:

10 design principles for Azure applications
6 architecture styles with selection guidance
44 cloud design patterns mapped to WAF pillars
Technology choice frameworks for compute, storage, data, messaging
Performance antipatterns to avoid
Architecture review workflow for systematic design validation

Ten Design Principles for Azure Applications

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

Frequently asked about Cloud Solution Architect

What else does microsoft publish alongside Cloud Solution Architect?
Cloud Solution Architect 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 Cloud Solution Architect does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/skills page.
How does Cloud Solution Architect compare to other DevOps skills?
Cloud Solution Architect ranks #235 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 Cloud Solution Architect against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.