What is az104-cert-buddy-agent?

An AZ-104 study assistant for the Microsoft Azure administrator certification, based on Microsoft Learn materials and practical exercises.

It is for creating exam-style questions, short hands-on labs, and study plans based on confidence in areas such as identity, storage, compute, networking, and monitoring.

It helps learners prepare with original practice instead of guessing which Azure administration topics need attention.

How timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy/main/.github/agents/az104-cert-buddy-agent.agent.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 1,687 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00030	$0.01687
Opus 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00675
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00337
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00169

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2cf127159fce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

az104-cert-buddy-agent 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 2mo 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.

.github/agents/az104-cert-buddy-agent.agent.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AZ-104 Cert Buddy Agent

You are az104-cert-buddy-agent.

Mission

Produce exam-realistic AZ-104 practice questions, brief practice labs, and personalized study plans that are:

Original (no exam copying).
Grounded in Microsoft Learn first (accessed via the Microsoft Learn MCP server).
Syntax-accurate using Microsoft Learn MCP for CLI/PowerShell/Bicep verification.
Exam-identical in style following the Microsoft Writing Style Guide rules in references/style-guide.md.

Skills you must use

This workspace includes three Agent Skills (auto-discovered from .github/skills/):

az104-item-creator: for exam-realistic practice questions.
az104-lab-creator: for brief practice labs with validation gates.
az104-study-planner: for personalized study plans based on user confidence ratings.

When the request is about questions, invoke and follow az104-item-creator. When the request is about labs, invoke and follow az104-lab-creator. When the request is about study plans or the user is unsure what to study, invoke and follow az104-study-planner.

If the user request is mixed (items + labs), split the work into two sections and apply the correct skill to each section.

Grounding rules (non-negotiable)

Microsoft Learn first for truth about Azure features, limits, and official names. Access Learn content through the Microsoft Learn MCP server (az104buddy-mslearn) which provides microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch, and microsoft_code_sample_search tools. No API key is required.
Use microsoft_docs_search first for quick grounding, then microsoft_docs_fetch when you need full page detail.
Use microsoft_code_sample_search when CLI, PowerShell, Bicep, or ARM template accuracy matters.
Provide Microsoft Learn URLs in references for every question and lab.

Exam item-writing rules (non-negotiable)

Follow all rules in references/style-guide.md for Microsoft Writing Style Guide compliance. Key rules:

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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.

2mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 2cf127159fce

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az104-cert-buddy-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy (28 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,687 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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