microsoftdocs/azure-quantum

Azure Quantum Skill

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

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

• Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
• Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description | |----------|-------|-------------| | Troubleshooting | L37-L44 | Troubleshooting Azure Quantum provider issues: diagnosing job failures and understanding support/escalation policies and limits for IonQ, PASQAL, Quantinuum, and Rigetti. | | Best Practices | L45-L49 | Best practices for using QDK in VS Code with Copilot, optimizing large Q# programs via resource estimation, and systematically testing and debugging quantum code. | | Decision Making | L50-L56 | Guidance on Azure Quantum costs, provider pricing and regions, workspace migration, choosing Q# dev tools, and planning quantum-safe cryptography with the resource estimator. | | Architecture & Design Patterns | L57-L61 | Guidance on designing hybrid quantum-classical workflows in Azure Quantum, including architecture options, orchestration patterns, and when to offload tasks to quantum hardware. | | Limits & Quotas | L62-L68 | Managing Azure Quantum quotas, job/session limits, timeouts, and Rigetti-specific hardware constraints and target capabilities. | | Security | L69-L79 | Managing secure access to Azure Quantum workspaces: RBAC and access control, bulk user assignment, ARM locks, managed identities, service principals, and secure handling of access keys. | | Configuration | L80-L91 | Configuring Azure Quantum environments, simulators, and targets, including CLI workspace setup, VS Code/QDK tools, and tuning/optimizing Quantum Resource Estimator and IonQ target parameters. | | Integrations & Coding Patterns | L92-L100 | Submitting and running quantum circuits (Cirq, QIR, OpenQASM, Pulser), building noise models, using neutral atom simulators, and connecting/running hybrid jobs via the Azure Quantum QDK. | | Deployment | L101-L105 | Deploying Azure Quantum workspaces with Bicep and running/submitting Q# quantum programs from VS Code to Azure Quantum backends |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Diagnose and fix common Azure Quantum issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/azure-quantum-common-issues | | Support and escalation policy for IonQ on Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-support-ionq | | Support policy for Quantinuum on Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-support-quantinuum | | Support policy for Rigetti on Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-support-rigetti |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Test and debug quantum programs with the Quantum Development Kit | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/testing-debugging |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Migrate Azure Quantum workspace data between regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/migration-guide | | Compare Azure Quantum provider pricing plans | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/pricing | | Check regional availability of Azure Quantum providers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-global-availability |

Architecture & Design Patterns

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Choose hybrid quantum computing architectures in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/hybrid-computing-overview |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Review and manage Azure Quantum usage quotas | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/azure-quantum-quotas | | Manage Azure Quantum sessions and avoid timeouts | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-work-with-sessions | | Rigetti provider targets and hardware limits in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-rigetti |

Security

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Bulk assign Azure Quantum workspace access via CSV | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/bulk-add-users-to-a-workspace | | Protect Azure Quantum resources with ARM locks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-set-resource-locks | | Share Azure Quantum workspace using RBAC roles | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-share-access-quantum-workspace | | Configure Azure Quantum workspace access control | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/manage-workspace-access | | Authenticate to Azure Quantum using managed identity | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/optimization-authenticate-managed-identity | | Authenticate to Azure Quantum using service principals | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/optimization-authenticate-service-principal | | Manage Azure Quantum workspace access keys securely | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/security-manage-access-keys |

Configuration

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Configure Azure Quantum workspaces with Azure CLI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-manage-quantum-workspaces-with-the-azure-cli | | Run Microsoft Quantum resource estimator locally and online | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-submit-re-jobs | | Use the QDK neutral atom device visualizer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-use-neutral-atom-visualizer | | Set up QDK VS Code extension and environment | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/install-overview-qdk | | Install and configure QDK quantum simulators | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/install-qdk-quantum-simulators | | Configure target parameters for the Quantum resource estimator | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/overview-resources-estimator | | Configure and use IonQ targets in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/provider-ionq | | Use known estimates to optimize Quantum resource estimator runs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/resource-estimator-known-estimates |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Connect to Azure Quantum workspace via qdk.azure | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-connect-workspace | | Run integrated hybrid quantum jobs with Adaptive RI in Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/hybrid-computing-integrated | | Build noise models with QDK neutral atom simulators | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/qdk-simulator-noise-models | | Submit Cirq circuits to Azure Quantum with QDK | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/quickstart-microsoft-cirq | | Submit QIR, OpenQASM, and Pulser circuits to Azure Quantum | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/quickstart-microsoft-provider-format |

Deployment

| Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Deploy Azure Quantum workspaces using Bicep templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-manage-quantum-workspaces-using-bicep | | Submit and run Q# programs on Azure Quantum from VS Code | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/how-to-submit-jobs |