deploying-on-azure

deploying-on-azure is a skill for Claude Code from ancoleman/ai-design-components. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,946 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing and building applications on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform. It covers choices for computing, storage, databases, AI services, messaging, networking, security, governance, cost, and performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting an Azure application, moving an existing workload to Azure, selecting cloud services, designing private networks, adding Azure AI, or applying governance policies.
Why use it?
Azure offers many services, which can make choosing a suitable and manageable design difficult. This helps weigh service options, operating effort, cost, security, and integration needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the cloud-provider-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting an Azure application, moving an existing workload to Azure, selecting cloud services, designing private networks, adding Azure AI, or applying governance policies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ancoleman/ai-design-components/deploying-on-azure
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ancoleman/ai-design-components --skill deploying-on-azure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ancoleman/ai-design-components

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-provider-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,946 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 $0.00045 $0.03946
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01973
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00789
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00395

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3d8a0bd8c6df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploying-on-azure 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/sdk/python/azure-openai-rag.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/deploying-on-azure/SKILL.md · 452 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 452 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Patterns

Design and implement Azure cloud architectures following Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework and best practices for service selection, cost optimization, and security.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Designing new applications for Azure cloud
  • Selecting Azure compute services (Container Apps, AKS, Functions, App Service)
  • Architecting storage solutions (Blob Storage, Files, Cosmos DB)
  • Integrating Azure OpenAI or Cognitive Services
  • Implementing messaging patterns (Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs)
  • Designing secure networks with Private Endpoints
  • Applying Azure governance and compliance policies
  • Optimizing Azure costs and performance

Core Concepts

Service Selection Philosophy

Azure offers 200+ services. Choose based on:

  1. Managed vs. IaaS - Prefer fully managed services (lower operational burden)
  2. Cost Model - Consumption vs. dedicated capacity
  3. Integration Requirements - Microsoft 365, Active Directory, hybrid cloud
  4. Control vs. Simplicity - More control = more operational overhead

Azure Well-Architected Framework (Five Pillars)

Pillar Focus Key Practices
Cost Optimization Maximize value within budget Reserved Instances, auto-scaling, lifecycle management
Operational Excellence Run reliable systems Azure Policy, automation, monitoring
Performance Efficiency Scale to meet demand Autoscaling, caching, CDN
Reliability Recover from failures Availability Zones, multi-region, backup
Security Protect data and assets Managed Identity, Private Endpoints, Key Vault

Reference references/well-architected.md for detailed pillar implementation patterns.

Compute Service Selection

Decision Framework

Container-based workload?
  YES → Need Kubernetes control plane?
          YES → Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
          NO → Azure Container Apps (recommended)
  NO → Event-driven function?
         YES → Azure Functions
         NO → Web application?
                YES → Azure App Service
                NO → Legacy/specialized → Virtual Machines

Read the full file on GitHub · 452 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. 9d ago First seen · 452 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 3d8a0bd8c6df

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deploying-on-azure is a skill published in the GitHub repository ancoleman/ai-design-components (519 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,946 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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