Azldev Image Agent Skill
Read this before building, booting, or configuring an azldev image. Explains the azldev image commands (list, build, boot, test, customize) and the [images.<name>] config (kiwi definition, capabilities, tests, publish); the kiwi XML format itself is upstream KIWI NG. Triggers include image build, image boot, kiwi, container image, VM image, images.toml.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux --skill azldev-imageThe instruction itself
4 sections, as written by the authorBuild and boot images
An image assembles built RPMs into a deliverable — a container or a bootable VM.
azldev drives the build from a kiwi-ng definition; the .kiwi file itself is
upstream KIWI NG (docs) and azldev does not
own its schema.
Commands
Images are selected by their name as a positional argument (not -p).
| Task | Command |
| --- | --- |
| List images | azldev image list |
| Build an image (kiwi-ng) | azldev image build <name> |
| Boot an image in a QEMU VM | azldev image boot <name> |
| Run an image's tests | azldev image test <name> |
| Customize a pre-built image | azldev image customize |
azldev image build takes --local-repo / --remote-repo to add package sources and
--arch to target an architecture. azldev image boot takes a built image name, or an
explicit --image-path / --iso. Confirm current flags with
azldev image <command> --help (there are more subcommands, e.g. inject-files).
Registering an image
Images are declared under [images.<name>] (conventionally in an images.toml):
[images.container-base]
description = "Container base image"
definition = { type = "kiwi", path = "container-base/container-base.kiwi", profile = "core" }
[images.container-base.capabilities]
container = true
systemd = false
[images.container-base.tests]
test-suites = [{ name = "smoke" }]
definition.typeiskiwi(the only type today);pathpoints at the.kiwifile;
profile selects a kiwi profile (optional).
capabilitiesare tri-state flags describing the image —machine-bootable,
container, systemd, runtime-package-management. Set only the ones that apply.
tests.test-suiteslists the test suitesazldev image testruns.publish.channelslists the channels the image publishes to.
The kiwi definition
The .kiwi file is upstream KIWI NG XML — azldev does not own its schema. It selects the
image type (container vs. VM), package lists, repositories, and boot configuration. See
the KIWI NG documentation for the format and elements.
Generated by azldev docs agent; do not hand-edit. Generated for azldev version v0.1.0.
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Take microsoft/azldev-image from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.