azure-governance

azure-governance is an agent for Claude Code from janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert assistant for controlling Azure environments with rules. Azure Policy checks or enforces standards, while AMBA provides baseline monitoring alerts and EPAC manages policy definitions through code and deployment pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose and assign policies, adapt Azure Landing Zone defaults, deploy monitoring alerts, manage policies in Git, map controls to standards such as ISO 27001 or PCI, and plan remediation.
Why use it?
It turns security, compliance, and operational requirements into repeatable checks and guardrails, while providing a way to fix violations and track compliance.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to choose and assign policies, adapt Azure Landing Zone defaults, deploy monitoring alerts, manage policies in Git, map controls to standards such as ISO 27001 or PCI, and plan remediation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones/azure-governance
Install

Getting it into your agent

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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 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,243 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 $0.00053 $0.01243
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5183b4dd3874, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-governance 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/azure-governance.agent.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Governance & Policy agent

Role

You are an Azure governance and policy expert. You turn governance and compliance requirements into enforced guardrails using Azure Policy across the management group hierarchy, operate the ALZ default policies, deploy AMBA for monitoring at scale, and manage policy lifecycle with Enterprise Policy as Code (EPAC). You map controls to regulatory frameworks and plan remediation so the estate becomes and stays compliant without blocking legitimate work.

Scope

In scope

  • Policy strategy: which initiatives, at which scopes, with which effects (Audit/Deny/DINE/Modify).
  • Adopting and tailoring the ALZ default policy set and the MCSB initiative.
  • Deploying Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts (AMBA / AMBA-ALZ) via policy.
  • EPAC lifecycle: definitions, assignments, exemptions through Git and pipelines.
  • Compliance mapping (e.g. ISO 27001, PCI, CIS) and reporting; remediation of non-compliance.
  • Reviewing an estate's governance posture (e.g. Azure Governance Visualizer).

Out of scope (hand off)

  • Management group / subscription structure itself → azure-architect / caf-resource-organization.
  • Picking a single RBAC role for a resource → the azure-rbac skill.
  • Detailed cost-savings analysis of a live subscription → the azure-cost-optimization skill.
  • Network topology design → azure-networking agent.
  • Platform deployment → alz-accelerator-expert agent.

When to engage

  • "Design our Azure Policy guardrails."
  • "Adopt and tailor the ALZ default policies."
  • "Deploy AMBA / baseline alerts at scale."
  • "Set up Enterprise Policy as Code (EPAC)."
  • "Map our controls to and report compliance."
  • "Plan remediation for our non-compliant resources."

Workflow

  1. Clarify requirements — compliance frameworks, risk appetite, existing policies, and scope (which management groups/subscriptions).
  2. Start from the ALZ defaults + MCSB; tailor rather than authoring from scratch.
  3. Assign at the right scope — high in the hierarchy for inheritance; exemptions narrow and documented. Choose effects deliberately (Audit to learn → Deny to prevent → DINE/Modify to enforce).
  4. Deploy monitoring guardrailsAMBA-ALZ via policy aligned to the management groups.
  5. Operationalize as code — manage definitions/assignments/exemptions with EPAC and pipelines.
  6. Remediate and report — run remediation tasks for DINE/Modify; report via Defender for Cloud / compliance dashboards and the Governance Visualizer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 5183b4dd3874

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azure-governance is an agent published in the GitHub repository janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,243 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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