Azure api center

Skill MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills/skills/azure-api-center

Expert knowledge for Azure Api Center development including best practices, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when automating API linting/registration, portal self-hosting, governance schemas, backups, or cross-platform sync, and other Azure Api Center related development tasks. Not for Azure API Management (use azure-api-management), Azure Resource Manager (use azure-resource-manager), Azure Portal (use azure-portal).From its SKILL.md

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npx -y skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-api-center

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SKILL.md

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Azure Api Center Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Api Center. Covers best practices, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category	Lines	Description
Best Practices	L33-L38	Best practices for API governance in API Center: using managed linting for style compliance and applying shift-left checks via the VS Code extension.
Security	L39-L44	Configuring API auth schemes (keys, OAuth, etc.) in API Center and managing portal access/permissions via the VS Code extension
Configuration	L45-L54	Configuring API Center instances: deployment via ARM/Bicep/CLI, setting up backup/restore, and defining/customizing governance metadata schemas.
Integrations & Coding Patterns	L55-L61	Patterns and scripts for syncing APIs between API Center and platforms like API Management, Amazon API Gateway, and Copilot Studio, plus automation via Azure CLI and Logic Apps/Teams
Deployment	L62-L66	Automating API linting and registration to Azure API Center (e.g., via GitHub Actions) and instructions for self-hosting the Azure API Center portal.

Best Practices

Topic	URL
Use managed linting to enforce API style compliance in Azure API Center	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/enable-managed-api-analysis-linting
Apply shift-left API governance with VS Code extension	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/govern-apis-vscode-extension

Security

Topic	URL
Configure API authorization schemes in Azure API Center	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/authorize-api-access
Control API Center portal access via VS Code extension	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/enable-api-center-portal-vs-code-extension

Configuration

Topic	URL
Configure backup and restore for Azure API Center	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/backup-restore
Configure metadata schema for Azure API Center governance	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/metadata
Create Azure API Center via ARM template	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/set-up-api-center-arm-template
Provision Azure API Center using Azure CLI	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/set-up-api-center-azure-cli
Deploy Azure API Center with Bicep templates	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/set-up-api-center-bicep
Define custom metadata schema in Azure API Center	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/tutorials/add-metadata-properties

Integrations & Coding Patterns

Topic	URL
Import Azure API Management APIs into API Center	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/import-api-management-apis
Script API Center inventory management with Azure CLI	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/manage-apis-azure-cli
Automate API registration notifications with Logic Apps and Teams	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/set-up-notification-workflow

Deployment

Topic	URL
Automate API linting deployment in Azure API Center	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/enable-api-analysis-linting
Automate API registration to API Center with GitHub Actions	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-center/register-apis-github-actions

What ships with it

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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

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Counted across 607 of the 705 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Run as non-root userin 34 of 607, across 27 files
Use multi-stage buildsin 29 of 607
Set resource requests and limitsin 24 of 607, across 20 files
Configure liveness and readiness probesin 18 of 607, across 14 files
Use named volumes for persistent datain 14 of 607, across 9 files
Pin base image versionsin 14 of 607
Set up environment variablesin 14 of 607, across 10 files
Pin provider versionsin 14 of 607
Apply least privilege RBAC permissionsin 10 of 607, across 7 files
Create a dockerignore filein 10 of 607
Use remote state with lockingin 9 of 607
Pin base images by digestin 9 of 607, across 8 files

Said here and by no other author read

Use the Category Index to locate relevant sections
Use read_file on linked reference files
Suggest pulling latest version if metadata is old
fetch documentation using microsoft_docs_fetch
Suggest installing MicrosoftDocs MCP if unavailable.
Use read_file with specified lines

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once.