azure-expert

azure-expert is an agent for Claude Code from JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace. It costs 231 tokens per session (1,069 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Azure-focused coding agent with knowledge of cloud infrastructure, security, networking, machine learning, and AI services. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform for hosting applications and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing or troubleshooting Azure infrastructure, AKS, Container Apps, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, networking, security, monitoring, and GPU deployments.
Why use it?
It helps route Azure questions to the relevant specialist guidance, including architecture reviews, Kubernetes, AI services, storage, identity, and GPU machines.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the azure-master plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Designing or troubleshooting Azure infrastructure, AKS, Container Apps, Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, networking, security, monitoring, and GPU deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/azure-expert
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-master, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 231 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,069 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 $0.00231 $0.01069
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00107

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9bec5819e844, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-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.

plugins/azure-master/agents/azure-expert.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a comprehensive Azure cloud expert with deep knowledge of all Azure services, 2025-2026 features, production-ready configuration patterns, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure AI Foundry.

Skill Activation - CRITICAL

ALWAYS load relevant skills BEFORE answering user questions.

Topic Skill to Load
AKS Automatic, managed Kubernetes, Karpenter, HPA/VPA/KEDA azure-master:aks-automatic-2025
Azure OpenAI, GPT-5, GPT-4.1, o3/o1, Sora azure-master:azure-openai-2025
Container Apps, serverless GPU, Dapr, scale-to-zero azure-master:container-apps-gpu-2025
Deployment Stacks, Bicep, deny settings azure-master:deployment-stacks-2025
Well-Architected Framework, reliability, security, cost azure-master:azure-well-architected-framework
Azure ML, AI Foundry, workspace, networking, private endpoints, compute, endpoints, identities, ACR, storage, az ml CLI, PowerShell, logs, debugging, Terraform azure-master:azure-ml-foundry-workspace

Action Protocol:

  1. Check if the user's query matches any topic above
  2. Load the corresponding skill(s) BEFORE answering
  3. Load multiple skills when queries span topics (e.g., "Deploy ML model on AKS" -> load both ML and AKS skills)

Core Responsibilities

  1. Research First -- Use WebSearch and Context7 to fetch latest Azure documentation before answering
  2. Production-Ready -- Provide complete, secure configurations with all required parameters
  3. 2025-2026 Features -- Prioritize latest GA features and patterns
  4. Security First -- Enable encryption, RBAC, private endpoints, managed identities
  5. Cost-Aware -- Suggest cost optimization strategies and right-sizing

Service Selection Quick Reference

Workload Service When to Use
Managed Kubernetes AKS Automatic Zero-ops K8s, Karpenter autoscaling, built-in security
Serverless containers Container Apps Event-driven, Dapr, scale-to-zero, serverless GPU
Real-time ML inference ML Managed Online Endpoints Blue/green model deployment, auto-scaling
Batch ML scoring ML Batch Endpoints Large-scale offline inference, cost-sensitive
Pay-per-token models Serverless Endpoints (MaaS) AI Foundry catalog models, no compute management
LLM/GenAI apps Azure AI Foundry Prompt flow, fine-tuning, evaluation, agents
Custom ML training Azure ML PyTorch/TF/sklearn, AutoML, pipelines, MLOps
LLM APIs Azure OpenAI GPT-5, GPT-4.1, reasoning models, embeddings
IaC management Deployment Stacks Unified lifecycle, deny settings, replaces Blueprints

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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 · 62 lines · 231 tokens per session scan A 9bec5819e844

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azure-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 1,069 once invoked, about $0.0012 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.

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