Azure SDK Python

Azure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python. Use for ML workspaces, jobs, models, datasets, compute, and pipelines. Triggers: "azure-ai-ml", "MLClient", "workspace", "model registry", "training jobs", "datasets".

Microsoft 365 Agents SDK for Python. Build multichannel agents for Teams/M365/Copilot Studio with aiohttp hosting, AgentApplication routing, streaming responses, and MSAL-based auth. Triggers: "Microsoft 365 Agents SDK", "microsoft_agents", "AgentApplication", "start_agent_process", "TurnContext", "Copilot Studio client", "CloudAdapter".

Azure Identity SDK for Python authentication with Microsoft Entra ID. Use for DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, service principals, and token caching. Triggers: "azure-identity", "DefaultAzureCredential", "authentication", "managed identity", "service principal", "credential".

Azure Key Vault SDK for Python. Use for secrets, keys, and certificates management with secure storage. Triggers: "key vault", "SecretClient", "KeyClient", "CertificateClient", "secrets", "encryption keys".

Create FastAPI routers with CRUD operations, authentication dependencies, and proper response models. Use when building REST API endpoints, creating new routes, implementing CRUD operations, or adding authenticated endpoints in FastAPI applications.

Build Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL services with Python/FastAPI following production-grade patterns. Use when implementing database client setup with dual auth (DefaultAzureCredential + emulator), service layer classes with CRUD operations, partition key strategies, parameterized queries, or TDD patterns for Cosmos. Triggers on phrases like "Cosmos DB", "NoSQL database", "document store", "add persistence", "database service layer", or "Python Cosmos SDK".

Azure Event Grid SDK for Python. Use for publishing events, handling CloudEvents, and event-driven architectures. Triggers: "event grid", "EventGridPublisherClient", "CloudEvent", "EventGridEvent", "publish events".

Create Pydantic models following the multi-model pattern with Base, Create, Update, Response, and InDB variants. Use when defining API request/response schemas, database models, or data validation in Python applications using Pydantic v2.

Build AI applications using the Azure AI Projects Python SDK (azure-ai-projects). Use when working with Foundry project clients, creating versioned agents with PromptAgentDefinition, running evaluations, managing connections/deployments/datasets/indexes, or using OpenAI-compatible clients. This is the high-level Foundry SDK - for low-level agent operations, use azure-ai-agents-python skill.

Azure Tables SDK for Python (Storage and Cosmos DB). Use for NoSQL key-value storage, entity CRUD, and batch operations. Triggers: "table storage", "TableServiceClient", "TableClient", "entities", "PartitionKey", "RowKey".

Azure Fabric Management SDK for Python. Use for managing Microsoft Fabric capacities and resources. Triggers: "azure-mgmt-fabric", "FabricMgmtClient", "Fabric capacity", "Microsoft Fabric", "Power BI capacity".

Build real-time voice AI applications using Azure AI Voice Live SDK (azure-ai-voicelive). Use this skill when creating Python applications that need real-time bidirectional audio communication with Azure AI, including voice assistants, voice-enabled chatbots, real-time speech-to-speech translation, voice-driven avatars, or any WebSocket-based audio streaming with AI models. Supports Server VAD (Voice Activity Detection), turn-based conversation, function calling, MCP tools, avatar integration, and transcription.

Azure Blob Storage SDK for Python. Use for uploading, downloading, listing blobs, managing containers, and blob lifecycle. Triggers: "blob storage", "BlobServiceClient", "ContainerClient", "BlobClient", "upload blob", "download blob".

Azure Monitor Query SDK for Python. Use for querying Log Analytics workspaces and Azure Monitor metrics. Triggers: "azure-monitor-query", "LogsQueryClient", "MetricsQueryClient", "Log Analytics", "Kusto queries", "Azure metrics".

Azure Queue Storage SDK for Python. Use for reliable message queuing, task distribution, and asynchronous processing. Triggers: "queue storage", "QueueServiceClient", "QueueClient", "message queue", "dequeue".

Azure API Center Management SDK for Python. Use for managing API inventory, metadata, and governance across your organization. Triggers: "azure-mgmt-apicenter", "ApiCenterMgmtClient", "API Center", "API inventory", "API governance".

Azure Bot Service Management SDK for Python. Use for creating, managing, and configuring Azure Bot Service resources. Triggers: "azure-mgmt-botservice", "AzureBotService", "bot management", "conversational AI", "bot channels".

Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Python. Use for detecting harmful content in text and images with multi-severity classification. Triggers: "azure-ai-contentsafety", "ContentSafetyClient", "content moderation", "harmful content", "text analysis", "image analysis".

Azure AI Text Analytics SDK for sentiment analysis, entity recognition, key phrases, language detection, PII, and healthcare NLP. Use for natural language processing on text. Triggers: "text analytics", "sentiment analysis", "entity recognition", "key phrase", "PII detection", "TextAnalyticsClient".

Azure AI Transcription SDK for Python. Use for real-time and batch speech-to-text transcription with timestamps and diarization. Triggers: "transcription", "speech to text", "Azure AI Transcription", "TranscriptionClient".

Azure App Configuration SDK for Python. Use for centralized configuration management, feature flags, and dynamic settings. Triggers: "azure-appconfiguration", "AzureAppConfigurationClient", "feature flags", "configuration", "key-value settings".

Azure Container Registry SDK for Python. Use for managing container images, artifacts, and repositories. Triggers: "azure-containerregistry", "ContainerRegistryClient", "container images", "docker registry", "ACR".

Azure Monitor Ingestion SDK for Python. Use for sending custom logs to Log Analytics workspace via Logs Ingestion API. Triggers: "azure-monitor-ingestion", "LogsIngestionClient", "custom logs", "DCR", "data collection rule", "Log Analytics".

Build Azure AI Foundry agents using the Microsoft Agent Framework Python SDK (agent-framework-azure-ai). Use when creating persistent agents with AzureAIAgentsProvider, using hosted tools (code interpreter, file search, web search), integrating MCP servers, managing conversation threads, or implementing streaming responses. Covers function tools, structured outputs, and multi-tool agents.

Azure API Management SDK for Python. Use for managing APIM services, APIs, products, subscriptions, and policies. Triggers: "azure-mgmt-apimanagement", "ApiManagementClient", "APIM", "API gateway", "API Management".

Azure Storage File Share SDK for Python. Use for SMB file shares, directories, and file operations in the cloud. Triggers: "azure-storage-file-share", "ShareServiceClient", "ShareClient", "file share", "SMB".

Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications. Triggers: "text translation", "translator", "translate text", "transliterate", "TextTranslationClient".

Azure Speech to Text REST API for short audio (Python). Use for simple speech recognition of audio files up to 60 seconds without the Speech SDK. Triggers: "speech to text REST", "short audio transcription", "speech recognition REST API", "STT REST", "recognize speech REST". DO NOT USE FOR: Long audio (>60 seconds), real-time streaming, batch transcription, custom speech models, speech translation. Use Speech SDK or Batch Transcription API instead.

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for Python. Use for one-line Application Insights setup with auto-instrumentation. Triggers: "azure-monitor-opentelemetry", "configure_azure_monitor", "Application Insights", "OpenTelemetry distro", "auto-instrumentation".

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 SDK for Python. Use for hierarchical file systems, big data analytics, and file/directory operations. Triggers: "data lake", "DataLakeServiceClient", "FileSystemClient", "ADLS Gen2", "hierarchical namespace".

Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python. Use for multimodal content extraction from documents, images, audio, and video. Triggers: "azure-ai-contentunderstanding", "ContentUnderstandingClient", "multimodal analysis", "document extraction", "video analysis", "audio transcription".

Azure AI Document Translation SDK for batch translation of documents with format preservation. Use for translating Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, and other document formats at scale. Triggers: "document translation", "batch translation", "translate documents", "DocumentTranslationClient".

Azure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. Use for computer vision and image understanding tasks. Triggers: "image analysis", "computer vision", "OCR", "object detection", "ImageAnalysisClient", "image caption".

Implement Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) using the azure-ai-language-conversations Python SDK. Use when working with ConversationAnalysisClient to analyze conversation intent and entities, building NLP features, or integrating language understanding into applications.

Azure Web PubSub Service SDK for Python. Use for real-time messaging, WebSocket connections, and pub/sub patterns. Triggers: "azure-messaging-webpubsubservice", "WebPubSubServiceClient", "real-time", "WebSocket", "pub/sub".

Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter for Python. Use for low-level OpenTelemetry export to Application Insights. Triggers: "azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter", "AzureMonitorTraceExporter", "AzureMonitorMetricExporter", "AzureMonitorLogExporter".