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Azure Storage Agent Skill

Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), when to use each tier, and tier comparison. Provides object storage, SMB file shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, and big data analytics. Includes lifecycle management. USE FOR: blob storage, file shares, queue storage, table storage, data lake, upload files, download blobs, storage accounts, access tiers, storage tiers, hot cool cold archive, storage tier comparison, when to use storage tiers, lifecycle management, Azure Storage concepts. DO NOT USE FOR: SQL databases, Cosmos DB (use azure-prepare), messaging with Event Hubs or Service Bus (use azure-messaging).

7k tokens
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the whole folder, loaded on every use
15
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how many repositories repackaged it
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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill azure-storage

What comes with it

23 862 bytes besides the instruction
references/auth-best-practices.md
references/sdk-usage.md
references/sdk/azure-data-tables-java.md
references/sdk/azure-data-tables-py.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-blob-java.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-blob-py.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-blob-rust.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-blob-ts.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-file-datalake-py.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-file-share-py.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-file-share-ts.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-queue-py.md
references/sdk/azure-storage-queue-ts.md
version.json

The instruction itself

10 sections, as written by the author

Azure Storage Services

Services

| Service | Use When | MCP Tools | CLI |

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

| Blob Storage | Objects, files, backups, static content | azure__storage | az storage blob |

| File Shares | SMB file shares, lift-and-shift | - | az storage file |

| Queue Storage | Async messaging, task queues | - | az storage queue |

| Table Storage | NoSQL key-value (consider Cosmos DB) | - | az storage table |

| Data Lake | Big data analytics, hierarchical namespace | - | az storage fs |

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

  • azure__storage with command storage_account_list - List storage accounts
  • azure__storage with command storage_container_list - List containers in account
  • azure__storage with command storage_blob_list - List blobs in container
  • azure__storage with command storage_blob_get - Download blob content
  • azure__storage with command storage_blob_put - Upload blob content

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

CLI Fallback

# List storage accounts
az storage account list --output table

# List containers
az storage container list --account-name ACCOUNT --output table

# List blobs
az storage blob list --account-name ACCOUNT --container-name CONTAINER --output table

# Download blob
az storage blob download --account-name ACCOUNT --container-name CONTAINER --name BLOB --file LOCAL_PATH

# Upload blob
az storage blob upload --account-name ACCOUNT --container-name CONTAINER --name BLOB --file LOCAL_PATH

Storage Account Tiers

| Tier | Use Case | Performance |

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

| Standard | General purpose, backup | Milliseconds |

| Premium | Databases, high IOPS | Sub-millisecond |

Blob Access Tiers

| Tier | Access Frequency | Cost |

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

| Hot | Frequent | Higher storage, lower access |

| Cool | Infrequent (30+ days) | Lower storage, higher access |

| Cold | Rare (90+ days) | Lower still |

| Archive | Rarely (180+ days) | Lowest storage, rehydration required |

Redundancy Options

| Type | Durability | Use Case |

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

| LRS | 11 nines | Dev/test, recreatable data |

| ZRS | 12 nines | Regional high availability |

| GRS | 16 nines | Disaster recovery |

| GZRS | 16 nines | Best durability |

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

SDK Quick References

For building applications with Azure Storage SDKs, see the condensed guides:

  • Blob Storage: Python | TypeScript | Java | Rust
  • Queue Storage: Python | TypeScript
  • File Shares: Python | TypeScript
  • Data Lake: Python
  • Tables: Python | Java

For full package listing across all languages, see SDK Usage Guide.

Azure SDKs

For building applications that interact with Azure Storage programmatically, Azure provides SDK packages in multiple languages (.NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust). See SDK Usage Guide for package names, installation commands, and quick start examples.

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