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Designs cloud architectures, migration plans, cost optimization recommendations and disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Expert knowledge for Azure HPC Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations &…
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-hpc-cache --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-hpc-cache .claude/skills/azure-hpc-cache && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "azure-hpc-cache" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cache into .claude/skills/azure-hpc-cache/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-hpc-cache", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cacheType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-hpc-cache --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-hpc-cache .agents/skills/azure-hpc-cache && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "azure-hpc-cache" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cache into .agents/skills/azure-hpc-cache/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-hpc-cache", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-hpc-cache --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-hpc-cache .cursor/skills/azure-hpc-cache && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "azure-hpc-cache" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cache into .cursor/skills/azure-hpc-cache/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-hpc-cache", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git --path skills/azure-hpc-cache--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-hpc-cache --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-hpc-cache .gemini/skills/azure-hpc-cache && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "azure-hpc-cache" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cache into .gemini/skills/azure-hpc-cache/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-hpc-cache", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-hpc-cacheInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-hpc-cache .github/skills/azure-hpc-cache && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "azure-hpc-cache" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cache into .github/skills/azure-hpc-cache/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-hpc-cache", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-hpc-cache --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/azure-hpc-cache .opencode/skills/azure-hpc-cache && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "azure-hpc-cache" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-hpc-cache into .opencode/skills/azure-hpc-cache/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-hpc-cache", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
azure-hpc-cacheExpert knowledge for Azure HPC Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations &…
Azure Hpc Cache is an agent skill from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Expert knowledge for Azure HPC Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when configuring HPC Cache namespaces, NFS/Blob targets, client access, data ingest scripts, or cache failover, and other Azure HPC Cache related development tasks. Not for Azure Managed Lustre (use azure-managed-lustre), Azure NetApp Files (use azure-netapp-files), Azure Batch (use…
Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts. Compatibility notes: Requires network access. Uses mcpmicrosoftdocs:microsoftdocsfetch or fetchwebpage to retrieve documentation.
It sits in Development, covering Design patterns and Backup and disaster recovery. It works with Microsoft Azure. The repository describes itself as: Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs. The licence is CC-BY-4.0.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ba74e8f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
learn.microsoft.comgithub.comFrom URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.
From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Azure Hpc Cache loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 150 tokens; SKILL.md has 697 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
The full file from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills at commit ba74e8f, republished under its CC-BY-4.0 licence (© MicrosoftDocs). 697 words, ~2,139 tokens.
.claude/skills/azure-hpc-cache/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).This skill provides expert guidance for Azure HPC Cache. 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.
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,
L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
IMPORTANT for Agent: If
metadata.generated_atis more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. Ifmcp_microsoftdocstools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide
This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L42 | Diagnosing and resolving Azure HPC Cache issues with Blob storage firewalls and NFS storage targets, including connectivity, access, and configuration problems. |
| Best Practices | L43-L51 | Guidance on optimizing Azure HPC Cache: client load balancing, efficient data movement and manual copy to Blob targets, NFS-on-Blob considerations, and priming caches for better hit rates. |
| Decision Making | L52-L57 | Guidance on when Azure HPC Cache is appropriate, comparing usage models, workload patterns, performance needs, and deciding if/when to adopt it for your architecture. |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L58-L63 | Designing Azure HPC Cache namespaces across multiple back-end storage systems, and planning regional redundancy, high availability, and failover strategies for cached workloads. |
| Limits & Quotas | L64-L68 | How to request and manage Azure HPC Cache quota increases, including limits on cache instances, capacities, and the support process for raising quotas. |
| Security | L69-L76 | Configuring HPC Cache security: client access policies, directory/AD integration and extended groups, customer-managed encryption keys, and overall cache security settings. |
| Configuration | L77-L90 | Configuring and operating Azure HPC Cache: CLI setup, networking/DNS/NTP, storage targets and namespaces, mounting NFS clients, lifecycle management, metrics, and environment prerequisites. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L91-L98 | Scripts and patterns for ingesting data (msrsync, parallelcp), controlling write-back with flush_file.py, and integrating Azure HPC Cache with Azure NetApp Files. |
| Deployment | L99-L103 | Creating Azure HPC Cache instances via portal/CLI, and recreating or moving existing caches to a different region while preserving configuration and data paths |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Work around Blob firewall issues for HPC Cache targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-blob-firewall-fix |
| Troubleshoot NFS storage target issues in Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/troubleshoot-nas |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Load balance client connections across Azure HPC Cache IPs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/client-load-balancing |
| Optimize data movement to Azure HPC Cache Blob targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest |
| Manually copy data into Azure HPC Cache Blob targets | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-manual |
| Apply NFS Blob storage considerations with Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/nfs-blob-considerations |
| Prime Azure HPC Cache to improve cache hit rates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/prime-cache |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Choose Azure HPC Cache usage models | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/cache-usage-models |
| Decide when Azure HPC Cache fits your workload | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/usage-scenarios |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Design Azure HPC Cache aggregated namespaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-namespace |
| Design regional redundancy and failover for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-region-recovery |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Request Azure HPC Cache quota increases | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/increase-quota |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Define client access policies for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/access-policies |
| Configure customer-managed encryption keys for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/customer-keys |
| Configure directory services and extended groups for HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/directory-services |
| Understand security configuration for Azure HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-security-info |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Use flush_file.py to control HPC Cache write-back | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/custom-flush-script |
| Ingest data to HPC Cache using msrsync | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-msrsync |
| Use parallelcp script to ingest data for HPC Cache | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-ingest-parallelcp |
| Integrate Azure HPC Cache with Azure NetApp Files | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-netapp |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Create Azure HPC Cache instances via portal or CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/hpc-cache-create |
| Recreate or move Azure HPC Cache to another region | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hpc-cache/move-resource |
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Just SKILL.md in skills/azure-hpc-cache of MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit ba74e8f
Azure Hpc Cache next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Hpc Cache this skillMicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills | 775 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Cloud ArchitectJeffallan/claude-skills | 12k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Azure Resource Manager SQL Dotnetmicrosoft/skills | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Azure Resource Manager Mysql Dotnetmicrosoft/skills | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Azure Resource Manager Postgresql Dotnetmicrosoft/skills | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Presetmicrosoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure | 255 | 1 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Expert knowledge for Azure HPC Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations &…. Azure Hpc Cache is an agent skill from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Expert knowledge for Azure HPC Cache development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment.
Azure Hpc Cache fits situations like: configuring HPC Cache namespaces; NFS/Blob targets; data ingest scripts; other Azure HPC Cache related development tasks.
Run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/azure-hpc-cache in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills) into .claude/skills/azure-hpc-cache in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/azure-hpc-cache in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills) into .agents/skills/azure-hpc-cache in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-hpc-cache -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/azure-hpc-cache, .gemini/skills/azure-hpc-cache, .github/skills/azure-hpc-cache and .opencode/skills/azure-hpc-cache in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Azure Hpc Cache is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation..
SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: learn.microsoft.com and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
Azure Hpc Cache is published under the CC-BY-4.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Azure Hpc Cache: Cloud Architect (Jeffallan/claude-skills, 12k stars), Azure Resource Manager SQL Dotnet (microsoft/skills, 3.1k stars), Azure Resource Manager Mysql Dotnet (microsoft/skills, 3.1k stars) and Azure Resource Manager Postgresql Dotnet (microsoft/skills, 3.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
MicrosoftDocs (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, which has 775 GitHub stars. The repository holds 149 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.