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Azure Artifact Signing

microsoftdocs/azure-artifact-signing

Expert knowledge for Azure Artifact Signing development including best practices, decision making, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when managing signing cert lifecycle, RBAC roles, DGSSv2 migration, diagnostic logs, or CI/CD signing integrations, and other Azure Artifact Signing related development tasks. Not for Azure Key Vault (use azure-key-vault), Azure Artifacts (use azure-artifacts), Azure Information Protection (use azure-information-protection).

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-artifact-signing

The instruction itself

8 sections, as written by the author

Azure Artifact Signing Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Artifact Signing. Covers best practices, decision making, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

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

| Best Practices | L33-L37 | Guidance on managing signing certificates end-to-end: rotation, renewal, expiration handling, key protection, and lifecycle policies for Azure Artifact Signing. |

| Decision Making | L38-L43 | Pricing and SKU selection for Azure Artifact Signing and guidance to migrate from DGSSv2, including plan changes and transition steps. |

| Security | L44-L51 | RBAC roles, identities, and validations for secure Artifact Signing, plus how to sign Windows code integrity policies and assign access permissions. |

| Configuration | L52-L56 | Configuring diagnostic settings for Artifact Signing, enabling and routing logs to destinations like Log Analytics, Storage, and Event Hubs for monitoring and analysis. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L57-L60 | Configuring Artifact Signing with supported tools and workflows (e.g., CI/CD systems, package managers), including setup steps and patterns for integrating signing into build and release pipelines. |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

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

| Apply certificate lifecycle practices in Artifact Signing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/concept-certificate-management |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

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

| Choose and change Artifact Signing pricing SKUs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/how-to-change-sku |

| Migrate from DGSSv2 to Azure Artifact Signing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/how-to-device-guard-signing-service-migration |

Security

| Topic | URL |

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

| Understand Artifact Signing resources and RBAC roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/concept-resources-roles |

| Manage Artifact Signing identity validations securely | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/how-to-renew-identity-validation |

| Sign Windows code integrity policies with Artifact Signing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/how-to-sign-ci-policy |

| Assign Azure RBAC roles for Artifact Signing access | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/tutorial-assign-roles |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

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

| Configure diagnostic settings and log routing for Artifact Signing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/how-to-sign-history |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

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

| Configure supported signing integrations for Artifact Signing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/artifact-signing/how-to-signing-integrations |

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoftdocs/azure-artifact-signing 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.