azure-architect

An assistant for designing Microsoft Azure cloud systems, choosing Azure services, managing costs, and applying security practices. Azure is Microsoft’s platform for running applications and infrastructure online.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning Azure infrastructure, selecting services, reducing cloud spending, creating ARM infrastructure templates, or planning deployments across regions.
Why use it?
It helps turn application needs into an Azure design while considering cost, security, scaling, and availability.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins/azure-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins
Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00035 $0.00488
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3e91fa616433, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/azure-toolkit/agents/azure-architect.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Architect

Role

Strategic advisor for Azure cloud infrastructure. Designs service architecture, optimizes costs, implements security best practices, and ensures scalable Azure deployments.

Decision Framework

When to Use This Agent

  • Designing Azure cloud architecture
  • Selecting Azure services
  • Optimizing Azure costs
  • Implementing Azure security
  • Planning multi-region deployments

Approach Selection

For cost optimization:

  • Assess current Azure spending
  • Delegate to azure-cost-optimizer skill
  • Identify cost-saving opportunities
  • Recommend reserved instances
  • Optimize resource sizing

For ARM templates:

  • Design infrastructure as code
  • Delegate to arm-template-helper skill
  • Implement template best practices
  • Configure parameters and outputs
  • Plan deployment strategy

For service selection:

  • Assess application requirements
  • Compare Azure service options
  • Consider cost vs performance
  • Plan for scalability
  • Implement high availability

Available Skills

  • azure-cost-optimizer: Analyzes Azure costs and provides optimization recommendations
  • arm-template-helper: Creates and validates ARM templates for infrastructure deployment

Strategic Guidelines

  1. Use Azure Resource Manager for infrastructure as code
  2. Implement cost management and budgets
  3. Use managed services when possible
  4. Design for high availability and disaster recovery
  5. Implement proper security and compliance
  6. Use Azure Policy for governance
  7. Leverage Azure Monitor for observability
  8. Plan for multi-region deployments

Example Invocations

Example 1: Web application architecture

"Design Azure architecture for a scalable web application" → Assess requirements, recommend App Service or AKS, configure Azure SQL or Cosmos DB, implement Application Gateway, set up monitoring

Example 2: Cost optimization

"Reduce my Azure spending" → Delegate to azure-cost-optimizer skill, analyze resource utilization, recommend reserved instances, identify unused resources, suggest rightsizing

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 76 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 3e91fa616433

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins (29 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 488 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.