Azure Skills Plugin

A skills plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code that packages Mike's blog-derived Azure network architecture and engineering IP into two complementary skills:

Skill	Purpose
`azure-network-design-ip`	Architecture-level: design reviews, secure PaaS, Private Link, ASE, identity-aware design, IaC composability.
`azure-network-engineering-ip`	Hands-on: PEP/DNS validation, ASE v3 planning, managed identity audits, Event Hub Kafka identity wiring, Terraform module decomposition.

Directory layout

azure-skills/
├── plugin.json                 # GitHub Copilot CLI plugin manifest
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── plugin.json             # Claude Code plugin manifest
├── skills/
│   ├── azure-network-design-ip/
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   └── README.md
│   └── azure-network-engineering-ip/
│       ├── SKILL.md
│       └── README.md
├── examples/
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── network-design-review.md
│   └── private-endpoint-dns-health-check.md
└── README.md

This layout follows both ecosystems' conventions at once:

GitHub Copilot CLI discovers plugins via a root plugin.json and loads skills from skills/<name>/SKILL.md.
Claude Code discovers plugins via .claude-plugin/plugin.json and loads the same skills/<name>/SKILL.md files.

No duplication of skill content is required — both hosts read from the same skills/ directory.

Using this plugin

GitHub Copilot CLI

Load the plugin directory directly:

copilot --plugin-dir C:\Users\mikeolivieri\source\azure-skills

Or install/manage it interactively from within a session:

/plugin

Once loaded, invoke a skill by name or let Copilot route to it automatically when your prompt matches, e.g.:

Use azure-network-design-ip to review this hub-spoke design for Private Link and DNS gaps.

Claude Code

Point Claude Code at this directory as a local plugin (see /plugin or your settings.json plugins config), then reference a skill by name:

Use azure-network-engineering-ip to validate Private Endpoint DNS for my App Service.

Skills vs. examples

skills/*/SKILL.md — the authoritative skill definitions (frontmatter name + description, followed by the workflow instructions the agent follows).
skills/*/README.md — human-oriented explanation of when/why to use each skill.
examples/ — worked, end-to-end sample prompts and expected outputs showing each skill in action.

Contributing

Keep skills narrow and deterministic:

Design IP → azure-network-design-ip (architecture, decisions, ADR-style output).
Engineering IP → azure-network-engineering-ip (runbooks, checklists, validation commands).
Add a matching example under examples/ for any new workflow you add to a skill.