Azure Usage
PassedThis skill should be used when user asks to "query Azure resources", "list storage accounts", "manage Key Vault secrets", "work with Cosmos DB", "check AKS clusters", "use Azure MCP", or interact with any Azure service.
Skill Content
1,843 charactersAzure MCP Best Practices
Tool Selection
| Task | Tool | Example |
| -------------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| List resources | mcp__azure__*_list | Storage accounts, Key Vault secrets |
| Get resource details | mcp__azure__*_get | Container details, database info |
| Create resources | mcp__azure__*_create | New secrets, storage containers |
| Query data | mcp__azure__*_query | Log Analytics, Cosmos DB |
Common Operations
Storage
storage_accounts_list- List storage accountsstorage_blobs_list- List blobs in containerstorage_blobs_upload- Upload file to blob
Key Vault
keyvault_secrets_list- List secretskeyvault_secrets_get- Get secret valuekeyvault_secrets_set- Create/update secret
Cosmos DB
cosmosdb_databases_list- List databasescosmosdb_containers_list- List containerscosmosdb_query- Query documents
AKS
aks_clusters_list- List AKS clustersaks_nodepools_list- List node pools
Monitor
monitor_logs_query- Query Log Analytics
Authentication
Azure MCP uses Azure Identity SDK. Authenticate via:
az login(Azure CLI - recommended)- VS Code Azure extension
- Environment variables (service principal)