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Expert knowledge for Azure Load Balancer development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration…
$ npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-load-balancer -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-load-balancer --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-load-balancer .claude/skills/azure-load-balancer && 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-load-balancer" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-load-balancer into .claude/skills/azure-load-balancer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-load-balancer", 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-load-balancerType 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-load-balancer -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-load-balancer --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-load-balancer .agents/skills/azure-load-balancer && 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-load-balancer" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-load-balancer into .agents/skills/azure-load-balancer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-load-balancer", 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-load-balancer -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-load-balancer --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-load-balancer .cursor/skills/azure-load-balancer && 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-load-balancer" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-load-balancer into .cursor/skills/azure-load-balancer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-load-balancer", 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-load-balancer--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-load-balancer -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills azure-load-balancer --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-load-balancer .gemini/skills/azure-load-balancer && 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-load-balancer" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-load-balancer into .gemini/skills/azure-load-balancer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-load-balancer", 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-load-balancerInstalls 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-load-balancer -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-load-balancer .github/skills/azure-load-balancer && 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-load-balancer" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-load-balancer into .github/skills/azure-load-balancer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-load-balancer", 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-load-balancer -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-load-balancer --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-load-balancer .opencode/skills/azure-load-balancer && 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-load-balancer" agent skill from https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/tree/main/skills/azure-load-balancer into .opencode/skills/azure-load-balancer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "azure-load-balancer", 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-load-balancerExpert knowledge for Azure Load Balancer development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration…
Azure Load Balancer is an agent skill from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Expert knowledge for Azure Load Balancer development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when configuring backend pools/rules, SNAT/outbound, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, health probes, or LB metrics/APIs, and other Azure Load Balancer related development tasks. Not for Azure Application Gateway (use azure-application-gateway), Azure Front Door (use azure-front-door)…
Its SKILL.md is about 2.5k 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 DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud networking and Design patterns. 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 Load Balancer loads about 2.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 159 tokens; SKILL.md has 739 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). 739 words, ~2,491 tokens.
.claude/skills/azure-load-balancer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Load Balancer. 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-L44 | Diagnosing and fixing Azure Load Balancer issues: health event logs, monitoring/alerts, connectivity problems, and testing public frontend reachability. |
| Best Practices | L45-L50 | Designing and deploying Azure Load Balancer and VM scale set architectures for reliability, performance, scaling, health probes, and high availability best practices. |
| Decision Making | L51-L57 | Guidance on choosing the right Load Balancer SKU, upgrading from Basic to Standard, and migrating workloads from AWS Network Load Balancer to Azure. |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L58-L62 | Design patterns for traffic distribution and session affinity, plus guidance for configuring outbound internet connectivity and SNAT behavior with Azure Load Balancer. |
| Limits & Quotas | L63-L70 | Limits, behaviors, and configuration of Load Balancer TCP idle timeouts, TCP resets, and outbound SNAT connection quotas for inbound and outbound traffic. |
| Security | L71-L76 | Security guidance for Azure Load Balancer: hardening, access controls, and using Azure DDoS Protection to defend against volumetric and network attacks. |
| Configuration | L77-L93 | Configuring Azure Load Balancer behavior: backend pools (incl. cross-subscription), rules/NAT, health probes, SNAT outbound, IPv6 DHCPv6, portal settings, and monitoring/metrics/logs. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L94-L100 | Code samples and patterns for probing health, reading load balancer/VM metadata via IMDS, and retrieving Azure Load Balancer metrics using CLI and REST APIs |
| Deployment | L101-L108 | Deploying and migrating Azure Load Balancers: dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 setups (internal/external), automating Basic→Standard upgrades, NAT rule v1→v2 migration, and cross-region config replication. |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Interpret Azure Load Balancer health event logs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-health-event-logs |
| Monitor and alert on Azure Load Balancer health events | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-monitor-alert-health-event-logs |
| Diagnose and troubleshoot Azure Load Balancer connectivity | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-standard-diagnostics |
| Test Azure Public Load Balancer frontend reachability | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-test-frontend-reachability |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Apply Azure Load Balancer deployment best practices | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-best-practices |
| Use VM scale sets with Azure Standard Load Balancer effectively | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-standard-virtual-machine-scale-sets |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Plan and execute upgrade from Basic to Standard Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance |
| Migrate AWS Network Load Balancer workloads to Azure | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/network-load-balancing-aws-to-azure-how-to |
| Choose the right Azure Load Balancer SKU | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/skus |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Choose Azure Load Balancer distribution modes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/distribution-mode-concepts |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Azure Load Balancer FAQs with limits and behaviors | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-faqs |
| Configure TCP idle timeout and reset for Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-tcp-idle-timeout |
| Understand TCP reset and idle timeout behavior in Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-tcp-reset |
| Configure outbound SNAT limits for Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/outbound-rules |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Apply security best practices to Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/secure-load-balancer |
| Protect Azure Load Balancer with Azure DDoS Protection | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/tutorial-protect-load-balancer-ddos |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Implement custom HTTP/HTTPS health probes with Python for Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/create-custom-http-health-probe-howto |
| Use IMDS to retrieve Azure Load Balancer metadata | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/howto-load-balancer-imds |
| Query Azure Load Balancer metrics via REST API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-query-metrics-rest-api |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Deploy IPv4/IPv6 dual stack app with Standard Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/deploy-ipv4-ipv6-dual-stack-standard-load-balancer |
| Deploy IPv6 dual stack app with Standard Internal Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/ipv6-dual-stack-standard-internal-load-balancer-powershell |
| Migrate inbound NAT rules v1 to v2 in Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-nat-pool-migration |
| Replicate Azure Load Balancer configuration across regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/move-across-regions-azure-load-balancer |
| Automate Basic-to-Standard Load Balancer upgrade with PowerShell | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/upgrade-basic-standard-with-powershell |
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Just SKILL.md in skills/azure-load-balancer of MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit ba74e8f
Azure Load Balancer 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 Load Balancer this skillMicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills | 775 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Dangling DNS Finderanirudhbiyani/findmytakeover | 180 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | |
| Aks Deployment Skilltimothywarner/chatgptclass | 143 | — | ~916 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Terraform Azurerm Set Diff Analyzergithub/awesome-copilot | 40k | 1 repos | ~547 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Hybrid Cloud Networkingwshobson/agents | 40k | 10 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Azure Resource Manager SQL Dotnetmicrosoft/skills | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Expert knowledge for Azure Load Balancer development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration…. Azure Load Balancer is an agent skill from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Expert knowledge for Azure Load Balancer development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment.
Azure Load Balancer fits situations like: configuring backend pools/rules; dual-stack IPv4/IPv6; LB metrics/APIs; other Azure Load Balancer related development tasks.
Run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-load-balancer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/azure-load-balancer in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills) into .claude/skills/azure-load-balancer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-load-balancer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/azure-load-balancer in MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills) into .agents/skills/azure-load-balancer 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-load-balancer -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-load-balancer, .gemini/skills/azure-load-balancer, .github/skills/azure-load-balancer and .opencode/skills/azure-load-balancer in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Azure Load Balancer is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3. 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 Load Balancer 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 2.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 10k 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 Load Balancer: Dangling DNS Finder (anirudhbiyani/findmytakeover, 180 stars), Aks Deployment Skill (timothywarner/chatgptclass, 143 stars), Terraform Azurerm Set Diff Analyzer (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars) and Hybrid Cloud Networking (wshobson/agents, 40k 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.