Azure Quotas

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Deployment

Example prompts

• “check quotas”
• “service limits”
• “current usage”
• “/azure-quotas”

Requirements

• A Bash shell
• PowerShell

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1List all quotas for the resource provider
2. 2Match by localizedValue (human-readable description) to find the relevant quota
3. 3Use the name field (not ARM resource type) in subsequent commands

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ce94fce. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 2 files in scripts/ (PowerShell and Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • az

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • learn.microsoft.com
  • portal.azure.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Azure Quotas loads about 3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 917 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~90

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure at commit ce94fce, republished under its MIT licence (© microsoft). 917 words, ~3,006 tokens.

name

azure-quotas

description

Check/manage Azure quotas and usage across providers. For deployment planning, capacity validation, region selection. WHEN: "check quotas", "service limits", "current usage", "request quota increase", "quota exceeded", "validate capacity", "regional availability", "provisioning limits", "vCPU limit", "how many vCPUs available in my subscription".

license

MIT

metadata.author

Microsoft

metadata.version

0.0.0-placeholder

.\scripts\check-quota.ps1 -ResourceProvider <provider> -Region <region>

./scripts/check-quota.sh <provider> <region>

.\scripts\check-quota.ps1 -ResourceProvider <provider> -Region <region> -ResourceName <resource-name>

./scripts/check-quota.sh <provider> <region> <resource-name>

.\scripts\check-quota.ps1 -ResourceProvider Microsoft.Compute -Region eastus

# Define candidate regions
REGIONS=("eastus" "eastus2" "westus2" "centralus")
VM_FAMILY="standardDSv3Family"
SUBSCRIPTION_ID="<subscription-id>"

# Check quota availability across regions
for region in "${REGIONS[@]}"; do
  echo "=== Checking $region ==="
  
  # Get limit
  LIMIT=$(az quota show \
    --resource-name $VM_FAMILY \
    --scope "/subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTION_ID/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/$region" \
    --query "properties.limit.value" -o tsv)
  
  # Get current usage
  USAGE=$(az quota usage show \
    --resource-name $VM_FAMILY \
    --scope "/subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTION_ID/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/$region" \
    --query "properties.usages.value" -o tsv)
  
  # Calculate available
  AVAILABLE=$((LIMIT - USAGE))
  
  echo "Region: $region | Limit: $LIMIT | Usage: $USAGE | Available: $AVAILABLE"
done

# Request increase for VM quota
az quota update \
  --resource-name standardDSv3Family \
  --scope /subscriptions/<subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/eastus \
  --limit-object value=500 \
  --resource-type dedicated

# Check request status
az quota request status list \
  --scope /subscriptions/<subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/eastus

# List all compute quotas in East US (table format)
az quota list \
  --scope /subscriptions/<subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/eastus \
  --output table

# List all network quotas
az quota list \
  --scope /subscriptions/<subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.Network/locations/eastus \
  --output table

# List all Container Apps quotas
az quota list \
  --scope /subscriptions/<subscription-id>/providers/Microsoft.App/locations/eastus \
  --output table

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Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files (scripts, references) in plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-quotas of microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure.

• SKILL.md
• references/advanced-commands.md
• references/commands.md
• scripts/check-quota.ps1
• scripts/check-quota.sh
• version.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ce94fce

Used in 3 other repositories

We found 4 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• microsoft/azure-skillsskills/azure-quotas.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-quotas
• microsoft/skills.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-quotas
• aiskillstore/marketplaceskills/microsoft/azure-quotas