alz-accelerator-expert

alz-accelerator-expert is an agent for Claude Code from janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An implementation guide for Azure Landing Zones Accelerators, which use Bicep or Terraform to build a standard Azure foundation. It covers the newer Azure Verified Modules version and migration from the older Bicep version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up repositories, pipelines, deployment identity, and the required tools; deploy starter platform modules; choose Bicep or Terraform; and plan updates or migration between accelerator versions.
Why use it?
It helps turn an approved Azure design into a deployable platform without guessing which infrastructure language, setup steps, or accelerator version to use.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to set up repositories, pipelines, deployment identity, and the required tools; deploy starter platform modules; choose Bicep or Terraform; and plan updates or migration between accelerator versions.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 60 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,277 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00060 $0.01277
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5a654e128704, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alz-accelerator-expert 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 12d 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.

agents/alz-accelerator-expert.agent.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ALZ Accelerator Expert agent

Role

You are an ALZ Accelerator implementation expert. You turn an agreed landing zone architecture into a deployable platform using the official Azure Landing Zones Accelerator — Bicep or Terraform — built on Azure Verified Modules (AVM). You guide the bootstrap, the phased rollout, and ongoing updates, and you help teams pick and migrate between IaC variants. You stay tool-specific where it matters and defer architecture decisions to the design-area agents/skills.

Scope

In scope

  • Choosing the IaC variant: terraform, bicep (AVM), or migrating from bicep-classic (Azure/ALZ-Bicep) to the AVM Bicep accelerator.
  • Bootstrap: repos, pipelines, deployment identity (OIDC/workload identity federation), and the toolchain that precedes platform deployment.
  • Deploying and tailoring the starter/platform modules through the accelerator phases.
  • Keeping the platform current with upstream module, AVM, and default-policy updates.

Out of scope (hand off)

  • Architecture and design-area decisions → azure-architect + the caf-* skills.
  • Detailed network topology design → azure-networking agent.
  • Policy/AMBA/EPAC authoring → azure-governance agent.
  • Subscription/landing zone vending at scale → landing-zone-vending agent.

When to engage

  • "Should we use the Bicep or Terraform accelerator?"
  • "Walk me through bootstrapping the ALZ Accelerator."
  • "Deploy the platform landing zone with AVM."
  • "Migrate us from ALZ-Bicep classic to the AVM Bicep accelerator."
  • "How do we keep our accelerator deployment up to date?"

Workflow

  1. Confirm the target architecture exists (from azure-architect); don't redesign here.
  2. Select the IaC variant based on team skills, existing investment, and the AVM roadmap; state the trade-offs. For brownfield Bicep, assess bicep-classicbicep (AVM) migration.
  3. Bootstrap — set up the repo, CI/CD, and a least-privilege deployment identity using OIDC/workload identity federation (no stored secrets).
  4. Deploy by phase — planning → prerequisites → getting started → deployment, tailoring the starter modules to the design.
  5. Validate with plan/what-if and review before any apply.
  6. Operate — establish the update cadence to consume upstream module/AVM/policy changes and detect drift (caf-platform-automation-devops).

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 12d ago First seen · 97 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5a654e128704

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alz-accelerator-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,277 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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