Name: azure-functions-skills
Author: azure

Azure Functions Skills

Azure Functions context for your coding agent. One command sets up guided workflows (create, deploy, diagnose, review) for GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, and Codex. The doctor command catches configuration and code issues before you deploy.

Latest E2E status: HTML report

What & why

Azure Functions Skills equips your coding agent with Functions-specific knowledge — trigger/binding patterns, language anti-patterns, runtime versions, deployment best practices — so the agent gives accurate guidance instead of generic advice.

It is focused on Azure Functions. For deployment of any Azure resource (Functions or otherwise), it delegates to Azure Skills via the azure-functions-deploy skill. The two packages complement each other — see docs/skills-vs-azure-skills.md for the role split.

Prerequisites

Node.js 18+ is the only thing you need to install yourself. Everything else (Azure CLI, Core Tools, language runtimes) is checked and guided by the azure-functions-setup skill the first time you run chat.

Quick Start

1. Install the plugin

GitHub Copilot CLI

npx @azure/functions-skills install --agent ghcp

Claude Code

npx @azure/functions-skills install --agent claude

Codex CLI

npx @azure/functions-skills install --agent codex

Installs at user scope (available to every project on this machine). Prefer to scope the skills to the current project only? Add --local to install them under the working directory instead.

2. Open the agent

npx @azure/functions-skills chat

The first time, the agent greets you with a welcome message, shows the available skills, and suggests the next workflow based on your project state.

More options? See CLI Reference for every command, flag, and headless example.

Skills

For contributor guidance on the product boundary between Azure Skills and Azure Functions Skills, see Azure Skills and Azure Functions Skills Boundary.

Skill	Purpose
`azure-functions-setup`	Verify local prerequisites (Azure CLI, Core Tools, runtimes, Azure Skills)
`azure-functions-create`	Create new Functions projects or add functions via Azure MCP templates
`azure-functions-agents`	Build Azure Functions hosted AI agent apps, scheduled agents, connector-triggered agents, and chat/API agents
`azure-functions-deploy`	Prepare, validate, and deploy via Azure Skills with Functions-specific guidance
`azure-functions-best-practices`	Production-readiness review (config, security, reliability)
`azure-functions-diagnostics`	Investigate deployment, runtime, trigger, binding, logging issues
`azure-functions-health-status`	Collect current health, metrics, logs, Resource Health, Activity Log
`azure-functions-inventory`	Collect app specification and configuration inventory
`azure-functions-doctor`	Pre-deployment validation (used by the `doctor` CLI command)
`azure-functions-common`	Shared language, trigger, binding, extension, routing references
`azure-functions-feedback`	Turn session findings into previewed issues or pull requests

The functions-copilot agent routes user requests to the right skill and suggests the next step after each workflow.

Doctor — pre-deployment validation

Catch configuration mistakes, deprecated settings, and semantic code issues (missing error handling, blocking I/O, hardcoded secrets, durable-orchestrator non-determinism) before you deploy. The LLM semantic analysis is the value — doctor ships it as both a local CLI command and a GitHub Actions step.

Local — LLM analysis + visual HTML report