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Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): sizing and prerequisites, Arc registration, lifecycle updates, workloads (Azure Local VMs, AKS on Azure Local, images, disks, logical networks), SDN and network security, and failure triage — starting read-only and confirming before risky changes. WHEN: Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Arc resource bridge, custom location, Azure Local VM, Arc VM, AKS on Azure Local, AKS hybrid, SDN, Lifecycle Manager, Azure Local update, disconnected site.

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The canonical home for this skill is azure-local in microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure

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Quality

Content

78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-organized, concise router with concrete tooling and a safety-gated workflow, but its progressive disclosure is undermined by five missing workflow bundle files that the overview links to. Actionability and per-step validation also suffer because the detailed procedures those links promise are absent.

Suggestions

Add the five missing workflow files under workflows/ (plan-and-deploy, operate-and-update, workload-management, networking-and-security, troubleshooting) or repoint the links to files that actually exist in the bundle.

Either reference references/resource-types.md from the body or remove it from the bundle so the file listing matches what the skill advertises.

Inline a one-line validation checkpoint in each numbered workflow step (e.g., 'verify ARG result is non-empty before proceeding') so the body's workflow stands on its own when the linked files are unavailable.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is lean — tables and short routed pointers, no explanation of concepts Claude already knows (e.g., what Azure Local is), and every line adds non-obvious information such as 'Azure Local has no dedicated MCP namespace'.

5 / 5

Actionability

Gives concrete executable identifiers — 'az graph query', 'az resource show', and named MCP tools like 'mcp_azure_mcp_extension_cli_generate' — plus a numbered routing workflow, but the deeper copy-paste procedures are delegated to workflow files rather than shown inline.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear 0–5 sequence with an explicit step-0 scale-check checkpoint, a safety gate ('Ask before updates, deletes, reimages, network changes...'), and an error-handling feedback table; validation is present so the destructive-ops cap does not apply, but per-step checkpoints live in the referenced files leaving minor gaps at the body level.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The structure is well-designed with clearly signaled one-level-deep markdown links, but 5 of the 7 referenced paths (all five workflows/*.md files) do not exist in the bundle, so the navigation the disclosure relies on is largely broken; not lower because sectioning and the three existing references are sound, not higher because broken links are more than a minor gap.

3 / 5

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16

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20

Passed

Description

100%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is exemplary: third-person voice, concrete enumerated actions, a comprehensive WHEN trigger list with synonyms, and a sharply distinct niche with explicit hand-off boundaries. No vague fluff or over-claims.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot', 'sizing and prerequisites, Arc registration, lifecycle updates', plus workloads (VMs, AKS, images, disks, logical networks), SDN, network security, failure triage — giving comprehensive coverage of the domain's capabilities.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (the enumerated plan/deploy/operate/troubleshoot capabilities) and 'when' via a dedicated 'WHEN:' clause with concrete trigger phrases, matching the top anchor exactly.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

The WHEN clause covers natural terms and synonyms users would say — 'Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Arc resource bridge, custom location, Azure Local VM, Arc VM, AKS on Azure Local, AKS hybrid, SDN, Lifecycle Manager, Azure Local update, disconnected site' — including the legacy name and 'AKS hybrid'/'Arc VM' variants.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear on-prem hyperconverged niche (Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI) with distinct triggers and even notes hand-off to a separate multi-rack skill, so conflict with other Azure skills is minimal.

5 / 5

Total

20

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

relative_links

Relative link issues: 5 missing, 5 deeper-than-1-level

Warning

Total

15

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16

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