Azure Developer CLI (azd) is a command-line tool for building, deploying, and operating applications on Azure. Developers use it to move through application workflows such as coding, building, deployment, and monitoring with Azure templates and resources. Its catalogue entries help AI agents work with azd and Azure application projects.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/azure-dev. 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/Azure/azure-dev/main/.github/skills/azd-preflight/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-devWrote 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/skills/azure/azure-dev/azd-preflight)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/azure/azure-dev/azd-preflight"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/azure/azure-dev/azd-preflight/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/skills/azure/azure-dev/azd-preflight"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/azure/azure-dev/azd-preflight.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00173 | $0.00403 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00069 | $0.00161 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00081 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
azd-preflight 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.
What it actually says
azd-preflight
Runs the full azd preflight suite and auto-fixes failures.
Overview
The azd preflight suite (go tool mage preflight) validates code quality before
changes are submitted. This skill runs the suite, parses failures, applies automated fixes,
and re-runs until all checks pass — or escalates to the user when a fix requires human judgment.
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Exit Criteria
go tool mage preflightexits successfully, or unresolved failures are clearly reported- Every changed
CHANGELOG.mdpasses its targeted spell check - All auto-applied fixes are saved to disk (not staged or committed — the user decides when to commit)
- A clear summary of what passed, what was fixed, and what was skipped is displayed
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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 · -1 tokens per session 4d1d426b6489
- 1mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A 17672088e376
azd-preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-dev (570 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 403 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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