Azure SDK for Java is a collection of Java libraries that let applications connect to and manage Azure services. Java developers use its client libraries to consume services and its management libraries to configure Azure resources. The catalogue add-ons support development with these libraries.
Borrowing it
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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 | $0.00119 | $0.01364 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00048 | $0.00546 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00273 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00136 |
Grade A, and why
azsdk-common-patch-mergeback 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Patch Release Merge-back
Prepare a PR that merges the version, CHANGELOG, and downstream pom.xml
updates produced by a patch release (on a release/patch/YYYYMMDD branch) back
into main. Patches revert CHANGELOG.md and version files to the last stable
release, so a naive merge creates many conflicts. This skill encodes how to
resolve each file type correctly.
Triggers
WHEN: "merge-back PR", "merge back patches", "patch release merge-back", "bring patch releases into main", "reconcile the patch branch" DO NOT USE FOR: triggering an SDK release, incrementing versions for a new patch cycle, code generation.
Inputs (variables)
Two values drive the whole workflow. Both come from the "Increment versions
for patch releases" PR (opened by azure-sdk-automation[bot]) that targets the
patch branch:
| Variable | How to determine it | Current value |
|---|---|---|
RELEASE_BRANCH |
The branch the "Increment versions" PR targets: release/patch/YYYYMMDD. |
release/patch/20260701 |
PATCH_DATE |
Derived from the branch name YYYYMMDD → YYYY-MM-DD. Used in CHANGELOG entries. |
2026-07-01 |
If either value is ambiguous, ask the user to confirm before proceeding.
Critical Rules (read first)
- Only the last two commits of
RELEASE_BRANCHcarry the updates to bring back. Diff againstRELEASE_BRANCH~2to scope the change set. - Never edit
pom.xmlby hand. It is regenerated byeng/versioning/update_versions.pyafterversion_client.txtis correct. - Do not touch
README.mdfiles. Run the version script with--skip-readmeso READMEs are left unchanged (README updates are handled separately). version_client.txt: update only thedependency-versionof SDK libraries that changed on the release branch; always keep thecurrent-versionfrommain. Never reset beta versions tobeta.1.CHANGELOG.md: keep thePATCH_DATEentry from the release branch; every other line must matchmain. Do not invent or edit any other CHANGELOG content.- Base the merge-back branch on
main, not on the release branch.
What ships with it
2 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 First seen · 101 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A ee4737d1aacc
azsdk-common-patch-mergeback is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-sdk-for-java (2,565 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,364 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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