Azure Migration Squad — VS Code Extension
Migrate any application to Azure — directly from your editor.
15 specialist agents, 60+ skills, Discovery-first workflow. Powered by GitHub Copilot.
What you get
- Sidebar tree view of all 15 specialist agents, 26 prompts, and 60+ skills — click any item to open its source file
- Status bar widget showing your current migration phase (Discovery → Phase 1 → … → Complete) — click to jump to the next recommended action
- 11 Command Palette commands — Initialize, Upgrade, Doctor, Open Discovery, Show prompt catalog, settings, and more
- First-run welcome panel with one-click setup
- VS Code Walkthrough that guides you through your first migration in 4 steps
- Settings UI for telemetry, channel selection, language, and Copilot install behavior
- Auto-prompt to install GitHub Copilot Chat (with consent)
Quick install
Ctrl+Shift+X in VS Code → search "Azure Migration Squad" → Install- Open the folder you want to migrate
- Accept the welcome notification → click "Get started"
- The extension drops the migration squad into your project (~30 seconds)
- Open Copilot Chat (
Ctrl+Alt+I) → type /assess-any-application
The Discovery Engineer (Saul Bloom Jr.) takes it from there.
Full walkthrough: docs/vscode-quickstart.md
What gets installed in your project
.github/prompts/ — 26 slash commands (try /assess-any-application).github/chatmodes/ — 9 specialized chat modes.github/skills/ — 60+ migration skills (stack + source + workload adapters).squad/agents/ — 15 specialist charter files (Ocean's Twelve theme)MIGRATION-START-HERE.md — your 60-second quickstart at the project root
Supported tech
| Sources |
Stacks |
Workloads |
| On-premise, AWS, GCP, Oracle, VMware, Kubernetes, container registries, GitHub repos, ZIPs, mainframes |
.NET, Java, Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Go, Perl, Rust, COBOL, Oracle Forms, PowerBuilder, Delphi/VB6, Scala/Kotlin, C++ Windows |
Web app, API service, batch job, event-driven, serverless, data pipeline, desktop, packaged, mainframe transactional |
Requirements
- VS Code ≥ 1.85
- Node.js ≥ 20 (the extension shells out to
npx for content sync)
- GitHub Copilot Chat extension — the extension can install it for you on first use
💡 Squad CLI is NOT required. This extension bundles every .squad/ file Copilot Chat needs. If you also want the standalone squad binary for squad init / squad agent add etc., the Command Palette has "Azure Migration: Install Squad CLI globally (optional)" — but skip it unless you specifically want the standalone tool.
Settings
Open VS Code Settings → search "Azure Migration Squad":
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
azureMigrationSquad.channel |
latest |
npm dist-tag (latest or insider) used by Initialize/Upgrade |
azureMigrationSquad.telemetry.enabled |
false |
Opt-in anonymous usage data — off by default |
azureMigrationSquad.language |
en |
Migration content language (en, pt-BR, es-ES) |
azureMigrationSquad.autoInstallCopilot |
prompt |
Behavior when Copilot Chat is missing (prompt/auto/never) |
azureMigrationSquad.statusBar.enabled |
true |
Toggle the migration phase widget |
How it works
This extension is a GUI wrapper around the @robertoborges/azure-migration-squad npm CLI. All AMS-modifying commands (Initialize, Upgrade, Doctor) shell out to npx so the extension and the CLI share a single source of truth. When the npm package gets a new agent or skill, the extension picks it up automatically on next Initialize/Upgrade.
Links
License
MIT
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