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It works with GitHub Copilot in VS Code, Copilot CLI, Claude Code, and other agent-compatible tools. The plugin closes the gap between AI code generation and actual cloud deployment by giving agents a structured playbook: skills encode decision logic (when to use which service, pre-flight checks, cost guardrails), MCP tools execute against real Azure resources, and Foundry handles AI model workflows. The result is that institutional cloud knowledge — previously locked in senior engineers' heads — becomes a versioned, auditable, installable artifact that agents consume automatically rather than generating generic advice. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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