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azure-artifacts

Expert knowledge for Azure Artifacts development including best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when managing feeds, upstream sources, package publishing/restore, GitHub Actions CI/CD, or npm/NuGet config, and other Azure Artifacts related development tasks. Not for Azure DevOps (use azure-devops), Azure Pipelines (use azure-pipelines), Azure Repos (use azure-repos), Azure Boards (use azure-boards).

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SKILL.md

Azure Artifacts Skill

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

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Category Index

Category Lines Description
Best Practices L35-L41 Guidance on Azure Artifacts package management best practices, configuring and using upstream sources, and safely restoring packages from external feeds.
Decision Making L42-L48 Guidance on choosing feed scope and planning migrations of package storage, including moving from file shares or MyGet to Azure Artifacts feeds.
Limits & Quotas L49-L56 Storage quotas, free allocation, and per-package size/count limits in Azure Artifacts, plus how to monitor, manage, and publish packages within those limits.
Security L57-L63 Securing Azure Artifacts feeds: configuring permissions, protecting upstream sources from malicious packages, and using npm audit to find and fix vulnerabilities.
Configuration L64-L75 Configuring Azure Artifacts feeds: views/promotion, retention/deletion, upstream sources, npm/.npmrc and scopes, and .artifactignore for optimizing pipeline artifacts.
Integrations & Coding Patterns L76-L118 How to connect build tools and CLIs (Cargo, Maven, Gradle, npm, NuGet, Python, PowerShell, Universal) to Azure Artifacts feeds, publish/restore packages, and use upstream sources.
Deployment L119-L122 Using GitHub Actions to build and push packages (NuGet, npm, etc.) to Azure Artifacts feeds, including workflow setup, authentication, and CI/CD integration.

Best Practices

Topic URL
Apply Azure Artifacts package management best practices https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/concepts/best-practices?view=azure-devops
Use Azure Artifacts upstream sources effectively and safely https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/concepts/upstream-sources?view=azure-devops
Restore packages from upstream sources in Azure Artifacts safely https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/tutorials/protect-oss-packages-with-upstream-sources?view=azure-devops

Decision Making

Topic URL
Choose between project-scoped and organization-scoped feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/feeds/project-scoped-feeds?view=azure-devops
Plan migration from file shares to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/move-from-fileshares?view=azure-devops
Migrate NuGet packages from MyGet to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/tutorials/migrate-packages?view=azure-devops

Limits & Quotas

Topic URL
Monitor and manage Azure Artifacts storage limits https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/artifact-storage?view=azure-devops
Publish Universal Packages and understand size limits https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/universal-packages?view=azure-devops
Azure Artifacts package size and count limits https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/reference/limits?view=azure-devops
Understand Azure Artifacts free storage allocation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/start-using-azure-artifacts?view=azure-devops

Security

Topic URL
Secure Azure Artifacts upstream sources against malicious packages https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/concepts/upstream-behavior?view=azure-devops
Configure Azure Artifacts feed and pipeline permissions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/feeds/feed-permissions?view=azure-devops
Use npm audit with Azure Artifacts to address vulnerabilities https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/npm/npm-audit?view=azure-devops

Configuration

Topic URL
Configure and manage Azure Artifacts feed views and promotion https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/feeds/views?view=azure-devops
Configure deletion, retention, and recovery for Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/how-to/delete-and-recover-packages?view=azure-devops
Enable upstream sources on public Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/how-to/public-feeds-upstream-sources?view=azure-devops
Enable and search upstream sources in Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/how-to/search-upstream?view=azure-devops
Configure upstream sources for Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/how-to/set-up-upstream-sources?view=azure-devops
Configure .npmrc to connect npm to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/npm/npmrc?view=azure-devops
Configure npm scopes with Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/npm/scopes?view=azure-devops
Configure .artifactignore to optimize Azure Pipelines artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/reference/artifactignore?view=azure-devops

Integrations & Coding Patterns

Topic URL
Publish Cargo packages from CLI to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/cargo/cargo-publish?view=azure-devops
Restore Cargo packages from Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/cargo/cargo-restore?view=azure-devops
Consume Cargo crates from Crates.io via Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/cargo/cargo-upstream-source?view=azure-devops
Connect Cargo projects to Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/cargo/project-setup-cargo?view=azure-devops
Publish and download Cargo packages with Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/get-started-cargo?view=azure-devops
Publish and restore Maven packages with Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/get-started-maven?view=azure-devops
Publish and consume npm packages using Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/get-started-npm?view=azure-devops
Publish and download NuGet packages with Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/get-started-nuget?view=azure-devops
Use Google Maven Repository as Azure Artifacts upstream https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/google-maven?view=azure-devops
Add Gradle Plugins repository as Azure Artifacts upstream https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/gradle-plugins?view=azure-devops
Configure Maven to restore packages from Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/install?view=azure-devops
Configure JitPack as an Azure Artifacts upstream source https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/jitpack-upstream?view=azure-devops
Connect Gradle builds to Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/project-setup-gradle?view=azure-devops
Connect Maven projects to Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/project-setup-maven?view=azure-devops
Publish Maven packages to Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/publish-packages-maven?view=azure-devops
Publish packages with Gradle to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/publish-with-gradle?view=azure-devops
Consume Maven Central packages via Azure Artifacts upstream https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/maven/upstream-sources?view=azure-devops
Publish npm packages from CLI to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/npm/publish?view=azure-devops
Restore npm packages from Azure Artifacts via CLI https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/npm/restore-npm-packages?view=azure-devops
Use npm registry packages through Azure Artifacts upstream https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/npm/upstream-sources?view=azure-devops
Publish NuGet packages with dotnet CLI to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/dotnet-exe?view=azure-devops
Connect dotnet CLI projects to Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/dotnet-setup?view=azure-devops
Install NuGet packages from Azure Artifacts in Visual Studio https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/install-nuget-packages-with-visual-studio?view=azure-devops
Connect NuGet CLI to Azure Artifacts feeds securely https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/nuget-exe?view=azure-devops
Publish Azure Artifacts packages to NuGet.org https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/publish-to-nuget-org?view=azure-devops
Publish NuGet packages to Azure Artifacts with NuGet CLI https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/publish?view=azure-devops
Restore NuGet packages with dotnet CLI from Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/restore-nuget-packages-dotnet?view=azure-devops
Restore NuGet packages with NuGet CLI from Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/restore-nuget-packages-nuget-exe?view=azure-devops
Consume NuGet Gallery packages via Azure Artifacts upstream https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/nuget/upstream-sources?view=azure-devops
Connect Python projects to Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/python/project-setup-python?view=azure-devops
Download Universal Packages from Azure Artifacts feeds https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/download-universal-packages?view=azure-devops
Install Python packages from Azure Artifacts via CLI https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/install-python-packages?view=azure-devops
Publish Python packages via CLI to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/python-cli?view=azure-devops
Publish and download Python packages with Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/python-packages?view=azure-devops
Debug with Azure Artifacts symbols in Visual Studio https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/symbols/debug-with-symbols-visual-studio?view=azure-devops
Debug with Azure Artifacts symbols using WinDbg https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/symbols/debug-with-symbols-windbg?view=azure-devops
Use PowerShell Gallery as an Azure Artifacts upstream source https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/tutorials/powershell-upstream-source?view=azure-devops
Use Azure Artifacts feed as a private PowerShell repository https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/tutorials/private-powershell-library?view=azure-devops
Connect and configure Universal Packages with Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/universal-packages/project-setup-universal-packages?view=azure-devops

Deployment

Topic URL
Use GitHub Actions workflows to push packages to Azure Artifacts https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/github-actions?view=azure-devops

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