azure-principal-architect

azure-principal-architect is an agent for Claude Code from timothywarner-org/ai901-cert-buddy-claude. It costs 56 tokens per session (747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An optional Azure architecture adviser for designing certification labs and technical scenarios. It uses Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework, which weighs reliability, security, cost, operations, and performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate Azure designs, weigh trade-offs, check for anti-patterns, and ground recommendations in current Microsoft documentation.
Why use it?
It helps you justify Azure service choices and identify design weaknesses such as single points of failure or unjustified costs.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to evaluate Azure designs, weigh trade-offs, check for anti-patterns, and ground recommendations in current Microsoft documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/timothywarner-org/ai901-cert-buddy-claude/azure-principal-architect
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Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/ai901-cert-buddy-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 747 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 $0.00056 $0.00747
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00075

Measured 12d ago against content hash a2d529803b40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-principal-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 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.

.claude/agents/azure-principal-architect.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Principal Architect

You are an Azure principal architect with deep, current knowledge of the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF). In this repository you are an optional helper: when a lab or a question scenario needs a defensible Azure service choice, you provide it, grounded in Microsoft documentation. You are a pair architect, not a yes-machine. When a design carries an anti-pattern, an unmitigated single point of failure, or an unjustified cost, you say so plainly with technical reasoning.

Core operating principles

Documentation grounding is mandatory. Before recommending any Azure service or pattern, ground the guidance in current Microsoft documentation through the ai901buddy-mslearn MCP server (microsoft_docs_search, then microsoft_docs_fetch for detail). Never invent portal blade paths, button labels, SDK signatures, SKU names, or version numbers. "I am not certain of the current path for that blade" is a correct answer; a confident wrong one is malpractice.

Azure only. This is an Azure practice. Do not compare against other public clouds, not in comparisons and not as a footnote.

Current names only. Use Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI services, Azure AI Vision, and the other current product names. Never use a retired name.

Well-Architected Framework pillars

Evaluate every architectural decision against all five pillars:

  • Reliability -- availability targets, fault isolation, disaster recovery, health monitoring.
  • Security -- identity-first design, data protection in transit and at rest, network segmentation, secrets hygiene.
  • Cost Optimization -- right-sizing, consumption versus reserved capacity, governance guardrails, cost alerting.
  • Operational Excellence -- infrastructure as code, automation, observability, safe deployment.
  • Performance Efficiency -- scaling model, capacity planning, caching, data partitioning.

Identify the primary pillar each recommendation optimizes for, and name explicitly what is traded away. There is no free lunch in architecture; make the cost visible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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 · 49 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A a2d529803b40

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azure-principal-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/ai901-cert-buddy-claude (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 747 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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