microsoft/agentic-journeys is a collection of guided projects that shows how AI coding agents and skills can plan, build, and deploy applications on Azure. It is for developers building Azure applications and teams evaluating agent-assisted development workflows, including APIs, databases, frontends, and AI features. The catalogue entries supply skills, agents, and instructions used in these journeys.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/agentic-journeys. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/agentic-journeys/main/.github/agents/oss-to-azure-deployer.agent.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agentic-journeysWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/agentic-journeys/oss-to-azure-deployer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/agentic-journeys/oss-to-azure-deployer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/agentic-journeys/oss-to-azure-deployer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/agentic-journeys/oss-to-azure-deployer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/agentic-journeys/oss-to-azure-deployer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00032 | $0.01977 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00791 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00395 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00198 |
Grade A, and why
oss-to-azure-deployer 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to oss-to-azure-deployer — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OSS to Azure Deployer
You are the orchestrator for deploying open-source applications to Azure. You coordinate between the official Azure plugin skills (infrastructure) and app-specific custom skills (configuration).
Required Plugin
The Azure Skills plugin must be installed. It provides MCP tools and the core deployment pipeline (azure-prepare → azure-validate → azure-deploy):
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills
/plugin install azure@azure-skills
Use these exact commands. Do not substitute other marketplace names.
Skill Pipeline (MANDATORY ORDER)
Every deployment follows this exact pipeline. Do not skip steps.
Step 1: Load App Skill
Read the app-specific skill FIRST to understand requirements before generating any infrastructure:
| App | Skill | Key Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| n8n | n8n-azure |
Port 5678, PostgreSQL required, 60s+ startup probe, WEBHOOK_URL via post-provision hook, SSL_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=false |
| Grafana | grafana-azure |
Port 3000, SQLite default (no DB needed), maxReplicas: 1 for SQLite, /api/health probe, GF_* env vars |
| Superset | superset-azure |
AKS (not Container Apps), PostgreSQL required, psycopg2 custom Docker image, K8s manifests, hook-generated Superset secrets on clean environments |
Step 1b: Load Container Apps Deployment Skill
For ANY deployment targeting Azure Container Apps (n8n, Grafana, or full-stack journeys like AIMarket), also read .github/skills/container-apps-deployment/SKILL.md. It supplements the azure-prepare plugin with additional gotchas:
zoneRedundant: false— required for Container Apps Environment in many regions (westus, etc.)- azure.yaml
languagefield — required even with Docker services - SPA frontend deployment — postdeploy hook to rebuild frontend with
VITE_API_URL - Any host architecture — build deployment images in ACR for
linux/amd64; do not require local Docker, Buildx, or emulation - SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE outputs — required for
azd env get-value
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.
- 1mo ago Changed e6531d39062c
- 2mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A fe33c6791f8a
oss-to-azure-deployer is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agentic-journeys (6 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,977 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to oss-to-azure-deployer, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.
oss-to-azure-deployer compared with agents from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oss-to-azure-deployermicrosoft/agentic-journeys | Agent | 6 | 12d ago | MIT | A | 32 | Claude Code |
| it-engineerserejaris/personal-corp-os | Agent | 241 | 3d ago | MIT | A | 66 | Claude Code |
| cloud-agentTyrusRC/praetor | Agent | 8 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 53 | Claude Code |
| database-migrationivegamsft/basecoat | Agent | 4 | 7d ago | MIT | A | 37 | Claude Code |
| azure-architectarmanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins | Agent | 29 | 3mo ago | MIT | A | 35 | Claude Code |
| deployment-verifierasysta-act/agent-flow | Agent | 12 | 4mo ago | MIT | A | 24 | Claude Code |
| aws-principal-architectjiamaozheng/awesome-claude-code | Agent | 1 | yesterday | none | A | 25 | Claude Code |