What is azure-upgrade?
azure-upgrade is a Claude skill by microsoft that assess and upgrade Azure workloads between plans, tiers, or SKUs, or modernize Azure SDK dependencies in source code. WHEN: upgrade Consumption to Flex Consumption, upgrade Azure Functions. It is listed under Engineering practice and has 443,200 installs.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | microsoft |
| Repository | microsoft/azure-skills |
| Popularity | 443,200 installs |
| Category | Engineering practice |
| Security | Low risk (100/100) |
| Rank | #49 of 1,262 Claude skills; #13 in Engineering practice |
| SKILL.md length | 103 lines |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-16 |
| Stars this week | +16 |
Is azure-upgrade safe to install?
azure-upgrade scores 100/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 9 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Doesn't ask for keys or credentials | Pass |
| No network requests | Pass |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
How do I install azure-upgrade?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-upgrade
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills cp -r azure-skills/skills/azure-upgrade ~/.claude/skills/azure-upgrade
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the azure-upgrade skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs azure-upgrade for you:
Install the "azure-upgrade" skill from https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/azure-upgrade into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.
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