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Transform Claude into an Azure expert. This plugin integrates the Azure MCP server and specialized Azure skills to move beyond generic advice. It enables Claude to perform…

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About

azure is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by microsoft. Marketplaces we read that list it: 4 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-official, Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot, Community GitHub marketplaces). We first saw it on 2026-10-11 and have recorded no change since. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-12.

In its own words, on Claude Code: claude-plugins-official:

Transform Claude into an Azure expert. This plugin integrates the Azure MCP server and specialized Azure skills to move beyond generic advice. It enables Claude to perform real-world tasks: listing resources, validating deployments, diagnosing infrastructure issues, and optimizing costs across 50+ Azure services.

What it asks for

  • Runs on your machine

None of the marketplaces we read publishes its tools or the settings it asks for.

What it declares, asks for and runs, in full

Only install plugins from developers you trust. We list what marketplaces publish and do not test plugins.

Connect

Commands and configs built only from what its marketplaces declare. We do not run them for you and do not test plugins.

As a Claude Code plugin

Built from what Claude Code: claude-plugins-official declares.

Claude CodeInside a Claude Code session
/plugin install azure@claude-plugins-official

Claude Code adds this marketplace by itself, so one command is enough.

Where it is published

MarketplaceStatusVersionFiguresVerifiedFirst seen
Claude Code: claude-plugins-official (Open the source on GitHub) Listed 1.2.50 Forks (GitHub): 254
Stars (GitHub): 1 557
Not marked
Claude Code: claude-plugins-community (Open the source on GitHub) Listed 1.2.25 No figure published Not marked
Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot (Open the source on GitHub) Listed 1.2.86 No figure published Not marked

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

Also listed in one community marketplace
MarketplaceRepositoryStars (GitHub)
azure-skills microsoft/azure-skills 1 557

Which marketplaces we read and how we check them

What the bundle contains

As published on Claude Code: claude-plugins-official.

MCP servers: 1

  • azure

Skills: 28

  • airunway-aks-setup
  • appinsights-instrumentation
  • azure-ai
  • azure-aigateway
  • azure-app-onboard
  • azure-app-onboard-prereq
  • azure-cloud-migrate
  • azure-compliance
  • azure-compute
  • azure-cost
  • azure-deploy
  • azure-diagnostics
Show the remaining 16
  • azure-enterprise-infra-planner
  • azure-kubernetes
  • azure-kusto
  • azure-messaging
  • azure-prepare
  • azure-quotas
  • azure-reliability
  • azure-resource-lookup
  • azure-resource-visualizer
  • azure-storage
  • azure-upgrade
  • azure-validate
  • entra-agent-id
  • entra-app-registration
  • microsoft-foundry
  • python-appservice-deploy

What changed

  1. Appeared on a new marketplace: Community GitHub marketplaces
  2. Community GitHub marketplaces: appeared

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Listings that share a signal with this one but not enough for us to treat them as the same product.

  • azure-kusto-graph-skillsMicrosoft · Starts the same package with other parts around it
  • azure-local-skillsMicrosoft · Starts the same package with other parts around it
  • Azuremicrosoft · The same name from the same author on another marketplace

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