This is the middle step in Microsoft's three-part Azure deployment workflow that runs preflight checks before you deploy anything. It validates your azure.yaml configuration, builds your project, runs bicep or terraform validation, checks RBAC role assignments in your infrastructure code, and does what-if analysis to catch issues early. The skill records all validation results in a deployment plan file and only marks things as ready to deploy if every check passes. It's designed to catch the configuration mistakes and permission issues that usually blow up during deployment, saving you from debugging failed deployments in the Azure portal.
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-validate