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Tools and skills in Azure SRE Agent

See every tool and skill your agent has, including built-in, custom, and MCP tools plus system and custom skills, organized by category. Toggle capabilities on or off at the space level, and changes apply across all agents instantly.

Agents created before March 10, 2026 require workspace tools to be enabled. For older agents, enable EnableWorkspaceTools in Capabilities > Experimental Settings.

Tip

  • See every tool and skill, including built-in, custom, and MCP tools plus system and custom skills, organized by category
  • Toggle on or off at the space level. Changes apply across all agents instantly.
  • Smart defaults: Both PagerDuty and ServiceNow incident management skills are enabled out of the box
  • Inherited counts on canvas: Each agent card shows how many global tools and skills it inherits

Tools

The Tools page organizes your agent's tools into three tabs:

Tab What it shows
Built-in tools Platform-provided capabilities grouped by category: Core, Azure Operation, DevOps, Diagnostics, Incident Management, Knowledge Base, Log Query, and more
MCP servers + services Tools from your connected MCP server connectors
Custom tools User-defined tools created through Kusto tool creation, Python tool creation, or extended agent YAML

Each tool shows its name and description with a checkbox to toggle it on or off. Core tools (like CreateFile, FileSearch, and GrepSearch) are always enabled and can't be disabled.

Skills

The Skills page organizes your agent's domain expertise into two tabs:

Tab What it shows
Built-in skills System-provided skills grouped by domain: Core skills (always enabled), plus skills for Azure diagnostics, incident management, and more
Custom skills Skills you create through the Skill Builder or extended agent YAML

Environment-aware defaults

Default incident skills Status
PagerDuty incident management Enabled by default
ServiceNow incident management Enabled by default

Making changes

  1. Browse tools across tabs. Expand categories to see individual items.
  2. Search using the search box to find specific tools or skills by name.
  3. Toggle individual items, entire categories, or all items by using the checkboxes.
  4. Save changes to apply your configuration.
  5. Reset to default to restore all tools and skills to platform defaults.

Inherited tools on the agent canvas

When you configure tools and skills on this page, every custom agent that doesn't have its own tool overrides automatically inherits your configuration. Agent cards display:

Card state What it shows
Inherited "Inherits N tools, M skills" as a clickable link
Custom "Tools, N," badge

How tools are managed at each level

Level Feature What it controls
What tools exist Deep context The underlying capabilities, including file operations, terminal, Python, and Azure CLI
Space-wide on/off Tools page (this page) Which tools are enabled or disabled for the entire space
Per-subagent Subagent tool configuration Which specific tools each subagent can use

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