Azure MCP and Azure Skills

From Azure Friday by Scott Hanselman

May 8, 2026

About this episode

This episode explores the integration of Azure MCP and Azure Skills to enhance AI capabilities within Azure services.

Explore Azure MCP Server and Azure Skills working together to extend AI capabilities across Azure services. In this video, we walk through the developer experience in VS Code, showing how to configure, run, and interact with Azure Skills seamlessly. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - What's Azure MCP 01:58 - Install Azure MCP 05:43 - VS Code User Experience 08:49 - VS Code Demo 14:25 - Azure Skills 18:36 - Wrap Up / Outro Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Azure Skills Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure SDK | Blog: Azure SDK Blog Azure SDK | Twitter/X: @AzureSDK Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Topics covered

  • Azure MCP
  • Azure Skills
  • AI capabilities
  • VS Code
  • developer experience

Keywords

  • Azure MCP
  • Azure Skills
  • VS Code
  • AI capabilities
  • developer experience
  • configuration
  • demo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VS Code, Azure SDK, Azure Friday, Azure

Products: Azure MCP, Azure Skills

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