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Azure Search Nav

Builds an Azure portal deep link to a specific blade/menu item for supported Microsoft.ContainerService, Microsoft.Kubernetes, and Microsoft.Compute resources using the…

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Install

$ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-search-nav

$ 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.

Azure Portal Search Link Builder

Quick Reference

Item	Value
Script	`references/Invoke-PortalSearchNav.ps1` (opens in a new tab)
Resource map	`references/resource-types.json` (opens in a new tab)
Prerequisite	`Az.Accounts` PowerShell module
Auth	Interactive Microsoft sign-in (`Connect-AzAccount`), or device-code with `-UseDeviceAuthentication`

When to Use This Skill

User asks to find where in the Azure portal to perform an operation on a supported Container Service, Arc-enabled Kubernetes, or Compute resource.
User wants a portal deep link for a specific blade/menu item.
User provides a resource URL or ARM resource ID and a natural-language search query.

Workflow

Collect resource link (portal URL or bare ARM resource ID) and search query from the user.
Run references/Invoke-PortalSearchNav.ps1 -ResourceUrl '<link>' -Query '<query>'.
The script signs in (browser by default; pass -UseDeviceAuthentication in headless/CLI environments), calls the search API, and prints portal deep links always rooted at https://portal.azure.com.

See references/README.md (opens in a new tab) for full parameter reference and API details.

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Fix
Resource type not enabled	`armProvider` not in `references/resource-types.json`	Confirm the type is in the enabled-provider list
401 from API	Invalid token, or wrong tenant selected	Re-run and select the account with access to the target subscription’s tenant
Empty results	No matching navigation item for the query	Try a different search term
`Az.Accounts` not found	Module not installed	`Install-Module Az.Accounts -Scope CurrentUser`
Browser sign-in fails (no window handle)	Headless/CLI environment	Re-run with `-UseDeviceAuthentication`

About this skill

Trigger

Builds an Azure portal deep link to a specific blade/menu item for supported Microsoft.ContainerService, Microsoft.Kubernetes, and Microsoft.Compute resources using the aks-search-direct-mid semantic search API. WHEN: 'find where in the Azure portal to do something', 'search the portal for an operation', 'construct a portal link from a search query and a resource'.

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/azure-search-nav/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:

Shifted “5 headings” from h1 to h2 so the skill title is the only h1.

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.

Azure Portal Search Link Builder

Quick Reference

Item	Value
Script	`references/Invoke-PortalSearchNav.ps1` (opens in a new tab)
Resource map	`references/resource-types.json` (opens in a new tab)
Prerequisite	`Az.Accounts` PowerShell module
Auth	Interactive Microsoft sign-in (`Connect-AzAccount`), or device-code with `-UseDeviceAuthentication`

When to Use This Skill

User asks to find where in the Azure portal to perform an operation on a supported Container Service, Arc-enabled Kubernetes, or Compute resource.
User wants a portal deep link for a specific blade/menu item.
User provides a resource URL or ARM resource ID and a natural-language search query.

Workflow

Collect resource link (portal URL or bare ARM resource ID) and search query from the user.
Run references/Invoke-PortalSearchNav.ps1 -ResourceUrl '<link>' -Query '<query>'.
The script signs in (browser by default; pass -UseDeviceAuthentication in headless/CLI environments), calls the search API, and prints portal deep links always rooted at https://portal.azure.com.

See references/README.md (opens in a new tab) for full parameter reference and API details.

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Fix
Resource type not enabled	`armProvider` not in `references/resource-types.json`	Confirm the type is in the enabled-provider list
401 from API	Invalid token, or wrong tenant selected	Re-run and select the account with access to the target subscription’s tenant
Empty results	No matching navigation item for the query	Try a different search term
`Az.Accounts` not found	Module not installed	`Install-Module Az.Accounts -Scope CurrentUser`
Browser sign-in fails (no window handle)	Headless/CLI environment	Re-run with `-UseDeviceAuthentication`

Azure Search Nav

Azure Portal Search Link Builder

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When to Use This Skill

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Error Handling

About this skill

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Azure Search Nav

Azure Portal Search Link Builder

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Appendix 6.1–6.3

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Appendix 6.1–6.3

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