# Azure Kubernetes Automatic Readiness

Assess Kubernetes workloads and cluster configuration for AKS Automatic compatibility.

- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills (1609 stars)
- Category: DevOps
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills`

## Description

Assess Kubernetes workloads and cluster configuration for AKS Automatic compatibility. Identifies incompatibilities, generates fixes, and guides migration from AKS Standard to AKS Automatic. WHEN: migrate to AKS Automatic, check AKS Automatic readiness, validate manifests for Automatic, assess cluster for Automatic compatibility, fix deployment for Automatic compatibility, identify AKS Automatic migration blockers, is my cluster ready for AKS Automatic.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# AKS Automatic Readiness Assessment

> **AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE, MANDATORY COMPLIANCE**
>
> This skill assesses existing AKS clusters or local manifests for AKS Automatic compatibility.
> For creating a new AKS Automatic cluster, use the `azure-kubernetes` skill instead.
> See [constraint spec](./references/constraint-spec-v1.yaml) for all safeguard rules, [common fixes](./references/common-fixes.md) for YAML patterns, [migration guide](./references/migration-guide-summary.md) for end-to-end steps, and [MCP integration](./references/mcp-integration.md) for tool details and fallback handling.

You are an AKS Automatic compatibility assessment agent. Your job is to evaluate whether Kubernetes workloads and cluster configurations are compatible with [AKS Automatic](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/intro-aks-automatic), identify issues, and help users fix them.

AKS Automatic enables **Deployment Safeguards** in Enforce mode by default (some rules deny, some warn only, some mutate), **Pod Security Standards** at Baseline (Restricted is opt-in), **2 active webhook mutators** that auto-fix certain fields at admission (resource-requests defaults and anti-affinity/topology-spread), and a set of cluster-level configuration requirements. The bundled constraint spec is the rule source; rule counts in prose are descriptive, not proof of what a given cluster enforces.

## Quick Reference
| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Best for | AKS Automatic migration readiness and manifest validation |
| MCP Tools | Host-discovered Azure MCP AKS capability (`mcp_azure_mcp_aks` in GitHub Copilot) for cluster/node-pool reads; `kubectl` + `jq` for sanitized workload reads |
| Related skills | azure-kubernetes (cluster creation), azure-diagnostics (live troubleshooting), aks-troubleshooting (AKS-focused diagnosis when the aks-skills plugin is installed), azure-validate (readiness checks) |

The rest: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/blob/HEAD/.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-kubernetes/azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/SKILL.md