azure-identity-java: Microsoft Azure Agent Skill

What the skill teaches

A Microsoft skill explaining how to sign in to Azure from Java code with com.azure:azure-identity. It describes DefaultAzureCredential and how to configure it, then managed identity, service principals with a secret or certificate, environment, Azure CLI, interactive browser and device code credentials, chained credentials, AKS workload identity, token caching and sovereign clouds, with a matrix for choosing a credential type. The required environment variables for each method are listed.

Capabilities

Configure DefaultAzureCredential in Java
Authenticate with managed identity or a service principal
Use browser, device code or Azure CLI sign-in
Chain credentials and cache tokens

Install

1
Run this to add it to Any client:
```
npx skills add microsoft/skills
```

From the project's documentation

What's inside

references/examples.md

Details

Fact	Value	Source
Type	Skill
Tool	Microsoft Azure
Publisher	Microsoft	source
Official status	Officialmicrosoft/skills is in Microsoft's own GitHub organisation; SKILL.md metadata author Microsoft	source
Status	Work in Progress	source
Needs an API key or sign-in	Not stated in its documentation
Includes scripts	No	source
Platforms	Not stated in its documentation
AI clients	Not stated in its documentation
Licence	MIT	source
Pricing	Not stated in its documentation
Activity	Last commit Nov 10, 20263,193 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI)	source
Links	Repository Website

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Sources

Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/microsoft/skills · Backs: LicenceNov 14, 2026
GitHub repositorygithub.com/microsoft/skills · Backs: Official status, Publisher, Status, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
Folder in the repository (azure-identity-java)github.com/microsoft/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 14, 2026

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