Azure Quantum

Azure Quantum Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Quantum. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. 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

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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 | L37-L44 | Troubleshooting Azure Quantum provider issues: diagnosing job failures and support/escalation policies and limits for IonQ, Quantinuum, and Rigetti hardware on Azure Quantum. |

| Best Practices | L45-L49 | Tools and techniques for testing, debugging, and validating quantum programs with the Azure Quantum Development Kit (QDK), including simulators, logging, and troubleshooting. |

| Decision Making | L50-L56 | Guidance on Azure Quantum costs, provider pricing and regions, workspace migration, choosing Q# dev tools, and planning quantum-safe cryptography with the resource estimator. |

| Architecture & Design Patterns | L57-L61 | Guidance on designing hybrid quantum-classical workflows in Azure Quantum, including architecture options, orchestration patterns, and when to offload tasks to quantum hardware. |

| Limits & Quotas | L62-L68 | Managing Azure Quantum quotas, job/session limits, timeouts, and Rigetti-specific hardware constraints and target capabilities. |

| Security | L69-L79 | Managing secure access to Azure Quantum workspaces: RBAC and access control, bulk user assignment, ARM locks, managed identities, service principals, and secure handling of access keys. |

| Configuration | L80-L91 | Configuring Azure Quantum workspaces, QDK tools, simulators, and hardware targets, plus setting up and customizing Quantum Resource Estimator models and outputs. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L92-L104 | Integrating quantum frameworks (Q#, OpenQASM, QIR, Qiskit, Cirq, Pulser) with Azure Quantum, configuring simulators/noise models, visualization, hybrid jobs, and resource estimation. |

| Deployment | L105-L109 | Deploying Azure Quantum workspaces with Bicep and running/submitting Q# quantum programs from VS Code to Azure Quantum backends |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

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

| Diagnose and resolve common Azure Quantum issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/azure-quantum-common-issues |

| Support and escalation policy for IonQ on Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-support-ionq |

| Support policy for Quantinuum on Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-support-quantinuum |

| Support policy for Rigetti on Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-support-rigetti |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

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

| Test and debug quantum programs with QDK tools | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/testing-debugging |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

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

| Migrate Azure Quantum workspace data between regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/migration-guide |

| Compare Azure Quantum provider pricing plans | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/pricing |

| Check regional availability of Azure Quantum providers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-global-availability |

Architecture & Design Patterns

| Topic | URL |

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

| Choose hybrid quantum computing architectures in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/hybrid-computing-overview |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

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

| Review and manage Azure Quantum usage quotas | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/azure-quantum-quotas |

| Manage Azure Quantum sessions and avoid timeouts | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-work-with-sessions |

| Rigetti provider targets and hardware limits in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-rigetti |

Security

| Topic | URL |

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

| Bulk assign Azure Quantum workspace access via CSV | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/bulk-add-users-to-a-workspace |

| Protect Azure Quantum resources with ARM locks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-set-resource-locks |

| Share Azure Quantum workspace using RBAC roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-share-access-quantum-workspace |

| Configure Azure Quantum workspace access control | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/manage-workspace-access |

| Authenticate to Azure Quantum using managed identity | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/optimization-authenticate-managed-identity |

| Authenticate to Azure Quantum using service principals | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/optimization-authenticate-service-principal |

| Manage Azure Quantum workspace access keys securely | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/security-manage-access-keys |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

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

| Configure Azure Quantum workspaces with Azure CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-manage-quantum-workspaces-with-the-azure-cli |

| Use the QDK neutral atom device visualizer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-use-neutral-atom-visualizer |

| Install and configure QDK quantum simulators | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/install-qdk-quantum-simulators |

| Configure and use IonQ targets in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-ionq |

| Configure hardware architecture models for the Quantum resource estimator | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qre-build-architecture-models |

| Define error correction and magic state models for resource estimation | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qre-build-error-correction-models |

| Build custom application models for the Quantum resource estimator | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qre-custom-applications |

| Access and customize Quantum resource estimator output | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qre-estimation-results |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

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

| Connect to Azure Quantum workspace via qdk.azure | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-connect-workspace |

| Visualize Q# and OpenQASM circuits with QDK | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-visualize-circuits |

| Run integrated hybrid quantum jobs with Adaptive RI in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/hybrid-computing-integrated |

| Configure neutral atom noise models with QDK Python APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/neutral-atom-noise-models |

| Run OpenQASM programs with Azure Quantum QDK | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qdk-openqasm-integration |

| Build and configure QDK simulator noise models in Python | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qdk-simulator-noise-models |

| Create application models from quantum frameworks for resource estimation | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qre-supported-applications |

| Submit Cirq circuits to Azure Quantum with QDK | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/quickstart-microsoft-cirq |

| Submit QIR, OpenQASM, and Pulser circuits to Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/quickstart-microsoft-provider-format |

Deployment

| Topic | URL |

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

| Deploy Azure Quantum workspaces using Bicep templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-manage-quantum-workspaces-using-bicep |

| Submit and run Q# programs on Azure Quantum from VS Code | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-submit-jobs |