azure-role-selector

name	azure-role-selector
description	Use this skill when the user asks which Azure role to assign, how to grant minimum access, whether a built-in role is sufficient, or when a custom role may be required.

Azure Role Selector

Purpose

Select the narrowest Azure role and assignment scope that satisfies the requested access without defaulting to broad standing privilege.

When to use

Use this skill when the user needs to:

• map requested Azure operations to a role,
• grant minimum access to a user, group, service principal, managed identity, or workload identity,
• decide whether a built-in role is enough,
• separate control-plane permissions from data-plane permissions,
• decide whether a custom role is justified,
• choose the safest assignment scope and validation path.

Do not use this skill for tenant-wide governance design, access review programs, or broad RBAC posture critique. Route those asks toward azure-rbac-review or a governance-focused skill.

Lean operating rules

• Prefer Microsoft Learn documentation through the user's configured documentation MCP, then sampled read-only Azure evidence when available, then sanitized user evidence.
• Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.
• Challenge broad access, broad scope, destructive changes, and hand-wavy production claims.
• Keep the answer scoped, reversible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.

References

Load these only when needed:

• Azure Role Selection Operations — use for current service behavior, common failure modes, hard design rules, verification targets, and push-back conditions.
• Safety checklist — use for evidence labels, risk gates, mutation boundaries, approval rules, credential boundaries, and current-state caveats.
• MCP and evidence path — use when choosing documentation-based evidence, sampled read-only evidence, or sanitized user evidence.
• Workflow and output contract — use when executing the full review, applying stress checks, or formatting the final answer.
• Official sources — use when you need the detailed Microsoft documentation list or source notes.

Response minimum

Return, at minimum:

• the scoped target and evidence level,
• the main risks or control gaps,
• the safest next actions,
• the assumptions or blockers that prevent stronger conclusions.