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Expert guidance for designing, assessing, and optimizing Azure workloads using Azure Well Architected. Covers design review checklists, recommendations, design principles, tradeoffs, service guides, workload patterns, and assessment questions.
Passed 17 of 20 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 20 without it.
and 13 more in the full report
14 fixed6 passed either way3 still failing0 broke
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This benchmark measured an earlier version of the skill.
One of 14 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Our messaging system relies on Azure Service Bus. What is the official Well-Architected service guide URL for Azure Service Bus?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Provides the URL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/service-guides/azure-service-bus. | Missed | Passed |
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This skill provides expert guidance for designing, assessing, and optimizing Azure workloads using Azure Well Architected. Covers design review checklists, recommendations, design principles, tradeoffs, service guides, workload patterns, and assessment questions. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,
L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
IMPORTANT for Agent: If
metadata.generated_atis more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. Ifmcp_microsoftdocstools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide
This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Design Review Checklists | L35-L43 | Checklists to review Azure workloads for cost, operations, performance, reliability, and security best practices and identify gaps against Well-Architected guidance. |
| Recommendations | L44-L117 | Guidance on cost, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence best practices for Azure workloads, including optimization, monitoring, automation, and sustainable cloud operations. |
| Design Principles | L118-L133 | High-level Azure design guidance: cost, performance, reliability, security/Zero Trust, sustainability, operational excellence, capacity resilience, and patterns for AI, HPC, and SaaS workloads. |
| Tradeoffs | L134-L143 | Guidance on weighing cost, reliability, performance, security, and operations tradeoffs in Azure architectures, including regions/AZ choices and cross-pillar design decisions. |
| Service Guides | L144-L180 | Service-specific Azure Well-Architected and WAF best practices for designing, configuring, and operating core services (compute, networking, storage, data, and integration) for reliability, security, and performance. |
| Workload Patterns | L181-L225 | Design patterns, reference architectures, and end-to-end guidance for AI, HPC, mission-critical, SaaS, and sustainable workloads on Azure, including platforms, data, ops, security, and governance. |
| Assessment Questions | L226-L237 | Guided assessments and maturity models to evaluate AI, SaaS, AVD, AVS, and other Azure workloads against WAF pillars: cost, reliability, security, performance, and operations. |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Use Cost Optimization design review checklist for Azure | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/cost-optimization/checklist |
| Use operational excellence design review checklist | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/operational-excellence/checklist |
| Use performance efficiency design review checklist | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/performance-efficiency/checklist |
| Use reliability design checklist for Azure workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/reliability/checklist |
| Use the Security design review checklist for workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/security/checklist |
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Align Azure resource usage with billing increments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/cost-optimization/align-usage-to-billing-increments |
| Implement cost data collection and review for Azure workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/cost-optimization/collect-review-cost-data |
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