Agent Skills: Azure MCP Best Practices

This 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.

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Skill Metadata

Name
azure-usage
Description
This 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.

Azure 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 accounts
  • storage_blobs_list - List blobs in container
  • storage_blobs_upload - Upload file to blob

Key Vault

  • keyvault_secrets_list - List secrets
  • keyvault_secrets_get - Get secret value
  • keyvault_secrets_set - Create/update secret

Cosmos DB

  • cosmosdb_databases_list - List databases
  • cosmosdb_containers_list - List containers
  • cosmosdb_query - Query documents

AKS

  • aks_clusters_list - List AKS clusters
  • aks_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)

Reference