Azure AI

microsoft/azure-ai

Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OCR. WHEN: AI Search, query search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcribe, OCR, convert text to speech.

7k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

6 d ago

last touched

this folder, not the whole repository

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai

What comes with it

25 530 bytes besides the instruction

references/auth-best-practices.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-contentsafety-java.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-contentsafety-py.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-contentsafety-ts.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-document-intelligence-dotnet.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-document-intelligence-ts.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-openai-dotnet.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-transcription-py.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-translation-text-py.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-translation-ts.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-java.md

references/sdk/azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-py.md

references/sdk/azure-search-documents-dotnet.md

references/sdk/azure-search-documents-py.md

references/sdk/azure-search-documents-ts.md

The instruction itself

9 sections, as written by the author

Azure AI Services

Services

|---------|----------|-----------|-----|

| Document Intelligence | Form extraction, OCR | - | - |

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

AI Search

azure__search with command search_index_list - List search indexes
azure__search with command search_index_get - Get index details
azure__search with command search_query - Query search index

Speech

azure__speech with command speech_transcribe - Speech to text
azure__speech with command speech_synthesize - Text to speech

If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp.

AI Search Capabilities

| Feature | Description |

|---------|-------------|

| Full-text search | Linguistic analysis, stemming |

| Vector search | Semantic similarity with embeddings |

| Hybrid search | Combined keyword + vector |

| AI enrichment | Entity extraction, OCR, sentiment |

Speech Capabilities

| Feature | Description |

|---------|-------------|

| Speech-to-text | Real-time and batch transcription |

| Text-to-speech | Neural voices, SSML support |

| Speaker diarization | Identify who spoke when |

| Custom models | Domain-specific vocabulary |

SDK Quick References

For programmatic access to these services, see the condensed SDK guides:

AI Search: Python | TypeScript | .NET
OpenAI: .NET
Vision: Python | Java
Transcription: Python
Translation: Python | TypeScript
Document Intelligence: .NET | TypeScript
Content Safety: Python | TypeScript | Java

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

AI Search indexing and queries -> Azure AI Search documentation
Speech transcription patterns -> Azure AI Speech documentation

Repackaged in 1 other repositories

same content, different owner

microsoft/azure-skills open on GitHub →

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoft/azure-ai from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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.