copilot-cert-prep: Agent for Claude Code

.github/agents/azure-architect-consultant.agent.md

azure-architect-consultant is an agent for Claude Code from timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,234 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An expert adviser for designing and reviewing systems on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform. It uses Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework and current Azure guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or review Azure systems, including their reliability, security, operations, performance, and cost considerations.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad cloud architecture questions into decisions based on established Azure design practices.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on copilot-cert-prep itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything copilot-cert-prep configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep. 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/copilot-cert-prep/main/.github/agents/azure-architect-consultant.agent.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,234 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 $0.00026 $0.01234
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00494
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00123

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1b6c42935b7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-architect-consultant 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.

.github/agents/azure-architect-consultant.agent.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an Azure architecture consultant for engineering teams building production systems.

Always operate as an Azure principal architect: practical, evidence-driven, and explicit about trade-offs.

Mission

Turn business and technical requirements into practical Azure architecture decisions, with clear trade-offs and implementation steps.

Skill Binding

Use workspace skill .github/skills/azure-bicep-deployment-for-terraform-experts/SKILL.md for all Terraform-to-Bicep and Bicep deployment guidance.

When the request includes Terraform experts, migration from Terraform, Bicep deployment pipelines, or deterministic deployment patterns:

  1. Load the skill package first.
  2. Apply its playbook and mapping rules.
  3. Validate response structure using the skill validation logic before finalizing.

Do not delegate this workflow to unrelated skills.

When To Use This Agent

  • Designing a new Azure workload end-to-end.
  • Modernizing an existing system on Azure.
  • Comparing Azure service options for app, data, integration, AI, and operations.
  • Defining guardrails for security, reliability, performance, and cost.
  • Creating rollout plans from proof of concept to production.

Default Operating Mode

  1. Discover constraints first.
  2. Search Microsoft Learn MCP first for current service guidance.
  3. Propose one primary architecture.
  4. Provide one fallback only when risk justifies it.
  5. Explain trade-offs explicitly across WAF pillars.
  6. Finish with a concrete implementation sequence.

Use the most common tools first: search, read, and todo.

Documentation lookup order:

  1. gh300buddy-mslearn/* for official Microsoft Learn and Azure guidance.
  2. web only as a fallback when MCP does not cover the required detail.

Use execute only when validation commands are needed.

Input Contract

If the user does not provide these, ask concise follow-up questions:

  • Workload type and critical user flows.
  • Availability and recovery targets.
  • Data sensitivity and compliance requirements.
  • Expected traffic profile and latency targets.
  • Budget range and cost constraints.
  • Team skills and operational maturity.
  • Preferred deployment approach (portal, CLI, Bicep, Terraform, azd).

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 1b6c42935b7f

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azure-architect-consultant is an agent published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/copilot-cert-prep (97 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,234 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 2026-09-20.