Azure MCP Server

com.microsoft/azure

5/7 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 3.8k GitHub stars
Updated 2026-09-30
Health score 86

About Azure MCP Server

Azure MCP Server is an MCP server published by microsoft.com. All Azure MCP tools to create a seamless connection between AI agents and Azure services.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the NuGet package Azure.Mcp at version 3.0.0-beta.48.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 3.0.0-beta.48 was published on 30 September 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 5 pass, 2 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

This server declares no environment variables, so it asks for no keys or settings.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/microsoft/mcp
Version pinned	Warn	Not pinned: https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-win-x64.mcpb, https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-win-arm64.mcpb, https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-linux-x64.mcpb, https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-linux-arm64.mcpb, https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-osx-x64.mcpb, https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-osx-arm64.mcpb
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via domain microsoft.com
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Warn	Runs at install: postinstall: node ./scripts/post-install-script.js
Code red flags	Pass	Read 4 files in @azure/mcp@3.0.0-beta.48: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 4 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 86 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity37 / 40

3,816 GitHub stars, 187,274 downloads last week, 1 Hacker News post (3 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-29, last release 2026-10-29, 503 commits in 90 days.

Issue health12 / 15

958 closed of 1,189 issues.

Our checks12 / 20

2 warnings, each costing a fifth.

664 forks, 2,241 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

1 Hacker News thread linking to the source code. We link to them and copy nothing.

MCP Gateway from Microsoft 3 points, 0 comments, 2025-08-27

Look further: search Reddit, search Hacker News, read its GitHub issues. These are not reviews we checked.

Facts

Registry name	`com.microsoft/azure`
Publisher	Domain microsoft.com
How the name is verified	Name verified via domain microsoft.com. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	nuget `Azure.Mcp` 3.0.0-beta.48 (stdio) npm `@azure/mcp` 3.0.0-beta.48 (stdio) pypi `msmcp-azure` 3.0.0b48 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-win-x64.mcpb` no version given (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-win-arm64.mcpb` no version given (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-linux-x64.mcpb` no version given (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-linux-arm64.mcpb` no version given (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-osx-x64.mcpb` no version given (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/releases/download/Azure.Mcp.Server-3.0.0-beta.48/Azure.Mcp.Server-osx-arm64.mcpb` no version given (stdio)
Version	3.0.0-beta.48
Published	2026-09-30
Last updated	2026-09-30
Source repository	https://github.com/microsoft/mcp
Website	https://github.com/microsoft/mcp/tree/main/servers/Azure.Mcp.Server
Category	Cloud & infrastructure (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@azure/mcp@3.0.0-beta.48"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "msmcp-azure==3.0.0b48"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/com-microsoft-azure.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.