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Azure Portal

microsoftdocs/azure-portal

Expert knowledge for Azure Portal development including troubleshooting, security, and configuration. Use when managing portal RBAC sharing, Intune/Entra mobile access, dashboard JSON, portal policies, or HAR diagnostics, and other Azure Portal related development tasks. Not for Azure Cloud Shell (use azure-cloud-shell), Azure Resource Manager (use azure-resource-manager), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Security (use azure-security).

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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-portal

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Azure Portal Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Portal. Covers troubleshooting, security, and configuration. 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 |

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

| Troubleshooting | L31-L35 | How to collect browser network traces, console logs, HAR files, and diagnostics to investigate and report Azure portal performance or UI issues |

| Security | L36-L44 | Tenant-wide admin/security policies, RBAC-based dashboard sharing, mobile app protection and user management with Intune/Entra ID, and roles needed to manage Azure support requests. |

| Configuration | L45-L53 | Configuring Azure portal behavior: dashboard JSON/templates, keyboard shortcuts, URL allowlists, mobile app alerts, and built-in Azure Policy definitions for portal governance. |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

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

| Capture browser traces and diagnostics for Azure portal issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/capture-browser-trace |

Security

| Topic | URL |

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

| Configure tenant-wide Azure portal admin policies | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/admin-policies |

| Share Azure dashboards using Azure RBAC roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboard-share-access |

| Apply Intune MAM app protection policies to Azure mobile app | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/mobile-app/intune-management |

| Manage Microsoft Entra ID users via Azure mobile app | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/mobile-app/microsoft-entra-id |

| Manage Azure support requests and required roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/supportability/how-to-manage-azure-support-request |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

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

| Programmatically create Azure dashboards from JSON templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards-create-programmatically |

| Understand Azure dashboard JSON structure and properties | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-dashboards-structure |

| Use global keyboard shortcuts in Azure portal | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-keyboard-shortcuts |

| Allowlist Azure portal URLs on firewalls and proxies | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/azure-portal-safelist-urls |

| Configure alerts and push notifications in Azure mobile app | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/mobile-app/alerts-notifications |

| Reference built-in Azure Policy definitions for Azure portal | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/policy-reference |

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take microsoftdocs/azure-portal 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.