Introducing azure-functions-skills: An AI-Era Workspace for Azure Functions (Preview)

Microsoft launched azure-functions-skills in public preview, a plugin that equips AI coding agents with the capabilities needed to build Azure Functions projects following security best practices. The tool provides a one-command way to give coding agents the skills, agent definitions, MCP servers, hooks, and instructions required to ship secure-by-default, scale-ready Azure Functions. It addresses a gap where general-purpose AI agents typically produce code with hardcoded secrets and outdated patterns instead of leveraging modern Azure best practices like managed identity and Flex Consumption.