Skills

Skill 4 of 53

AKS Network Capture

Collects bounded packet captures from AKS nodes and Azure network configuration for wire-level evidence.

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Install

$ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill aks-network-capture

$ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills

» /plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

Quick Reference

Use	Requires	Safety
AKS pcap evidence	`kubectl`; `az` for Azure evidence	Bounded, pinned, least privilege

When to Use This Skill

Use for explicit packet capture after read-only checks, not generic connectivity failures.

MCP Tools

Azure MCP’s AKS area provides cluster and node-pool metadata, not Kubernetes command execution or packet capture.

Before executing the workflow, confirm that the host permits the required Bash or PowerShell execution, kubectl access to the bound cluster, az for Azure evidence, access to the bundled scripts, and an approved artifact destination. A governed Azure CLI tool alone does not establish that shell, Kubernetes commands, or artifact operations are supported.

If a required capability is unavailable or prohibited, state that capture execution is unavailable in this host. Analyze supplied, appropriately redacted evidence or give the operator a target-bound collection/capture plan; do not claim to have run it. Never route kubectl through Azure MCP, add an unapproved execution path, or bypass host policy. Host support does not replace the mutation and sensitive-data approvals below.

Run bundled scripts from the skill root only after this gate is satisfied.

Workflow/Steps

Check host capabilities, then complete authorization and target binding (opens in a new tab). Capture intent is not mutation consent. Stop for separate approval before any debug-container fallback.
Install Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Capture nodes or pods with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Generate traffic if approved with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Retrieve the exact run with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Gather Azure evidence with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).

The ConfigMap runs run-capture.sh (opens in a new tab) inside its pinned Linux image.

Error Handling

Error	Action
Invalid input	Correct it before retrying.
Missing/stale ConfigMap	Run setup again.
Capture/retrieval failure	Inspect Job logs; missing evidence is not success.

About this skill

Trigger

Collects bounded packet captures from AKS nodes and Azure network configuration for wire-level evidence. WHEN: "capture packets on an AKS node", "take a pcap", "run tcpdump on AKS", "prove where packets drop". Use for explicit packet-capture intent after read-only diagnostics, not general AKS connectivity or ingress troubleshooting.

The verbatim description from this skill’s front matter — the string an agent matches on to decide whether to load it.

Licence: MIT
Source: .github/plugins/aks-skills/skills/aks-network-capture/SKILL.md

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/microsoft/azure-skills, branch main, last pushed 6 November 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

53 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 11 distinct layouts observed: .github/plugins/aks-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/azure-advisor/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/azure-kusto-graph-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/azure-local-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/foundry-iq-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, skills/*/SKILL.md, skills/azure-kubernetes/*/SKILL.md, skills/microsoft-foundry/*/SKILL.md, skills/microsoft-foundry/models/deploy-model/*/SKILL.md, skills/microsoft-foundry/models/*/SKILL.md.

Duplicates collapsed

35 mirror copies folded into their canonical skill — republished for GitHub. Copies match on content hash and on position once a leading per-agent prefix is stripped, because the same skill is routinely shipped under a dozen agent directories with a dozen different hashes.

Issue colours

Resolved from a curated brand profile — hue 251°, chroma 0.167. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Removed “AKS Network Capture”, a leading h1 that duplicated the skill title.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Microsoft, declaring 7 plugins. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /microsoft/azure-skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

Quick Reference

Use	Requires	Safety
AKS pcap evidence	`kubectl`; `az` for Azure evidence	Bounded, pinned, least privilege

Check host capabilities, then complete authorization and target binding (opens in a new tab). Capture intent is not mutation consent. Stop for separate approval before any debug-container fallback.
Install Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Capture nodes or pods with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Generate traffic if approved with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Retrieve the exact run with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).
Gather Azure evidence with Bash (opens in a new tab) / PowerShell (opens in a new tab).

The ConfigMap runs run-capture.sh (opens in a new tab) inside its pinned Linux image.

Error Handling

Error	Action
Invalid input	Correct it before retrying.
Missing/stale ConfigMap	Run setup again.
Capture/retrieval failure	Inspect Job logs; missing evidence is not success.

AKS Network Capture

Quick Reference

When to Use This Skill

MCP Tools

Host Capability Gate

Workflow/Steps

Error Handling

About this skill

Trigger

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AKS Network Capture

Quick Reference

When to Use This Skill

MCP Tools

Host Capability Gate

Workflow/Steps

Error Handling

Appendix 4.1–4.12

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Scripts11 files

About this skill

Trigger

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Appendix 4.1–4.12

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Scripts11 files