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Recommend Azure VM sizes, scale sets, and configurations based on workload requirements and budget. Analyzes workload type, performance needs, scaling requirements, and cost to suggest 2–3 VM or VMSS options with trade-offs Verifies recommendations against live Microsoft documentation; falls back to reference files if fetch fails Queries the unauthenticated Azure Retail Prices API for current pricing without requiring an Azure subscription Guides VM vs VMSS decision through a decision tree...

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🧩 One of 7 skills in the microsoft/azure-skills package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.

Recommend Azure VM sizes, scale sets, and configurations based on workload requirements and budget. Analyzes workload type, performance needs, scaling requirements, and cost to suggest 2–3 VM or VMSS options with trade-offs Verifies recommendations against live Microsoft documentation; falls back to reference files if fetch fails Queries the unauthenticated Azure Retail Prices API for current pricing without requiring an Azure subscription Guides VM vs VMSS decision through a decision tree...

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Recommend Azure VM sizes, scale sets, and configurations based on workload requirements and budget. Analyzes workload type, performance needs, scaling requirements, and cost to suggest 2–3 VM or VMSS options with trade-offs Verifies recommendations against live Microsoft documentation; falls back to reference files if fetch fails Queries the unauthenticated Azure Retail Prices API for current pricing without requiring an Azure subscription Guides VM vs VMSS decision through a decision tree... npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-compute Download ZIPGitHub1.3k

Azure Compute Skill

Routes Azure VM and Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) requests to the right workflow.

When to Use This Skill

  • User wants to recommend, compare, or price a VM or VMSS

  • User wants to create, provision, or deploy a VM or VMSS

  • User can't connect to a VM (RDP / SSH / port refused / black screen / password reset)

  • User asks about Capacity Reservation Groups (CRG) — reserve, guarantee capacity, pre-provision

  • User asks about Essential Machine Management (EMM) — machine enrollment, monitor

Disambiguate with azure-prepare: if the user wants to deploy an application (Docker service, web app, API, serverless workload), route to azure-prepare. vm-creator is for bare VM/VMSS infrastructure only.

Routing

Copy & paste — that's it
Azure compute intent?
├── Recommend / compare / price a VM or VMSS → VM Recommender
├── Create / provision / deploy a VM or VMSS → VM Creator
├── Can't connect / RDP / SSH / port refused → VM Troubleshooter
├── Reserve / guarantee capacity (CRG) → Capacity Reservation
├── Machine enrollment / Essential Machine Management → Essential Machine Management
└── Unclear → Ask which of the above

Routing rule: read the matched workflow file before any reference file. The workflow owns the step-by-step guidance; references are looked up on demand.

Workflows

Workflow File Use when VM Recommender vm-recommender.md User asks which VM/VMSS to choose, wants pricing, or wants to compare options VM Creator vm-creator.md User wants to provision a bare VM or VMSS (not an app deployment) VM Troubleshooter vm-troubleshooter.md User can't connect, RDP/SSH refused, black screen, needs password reset Capacity Reservation capacity-reservation.md User needs to reserve / guarantee VM capacity (CRG create / associate / disassociate) Essential Machine Management essential-machine-management.md User asks about EMM / machine enrollment / monitor