azure-vms

azure-vms is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (3,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deploying and managing Azure virtual machines and scale sets. Virtual machines are cloud computers with configurable operating systems, storage, and hardware sizes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating Azure VMs, configuring disks and availability, setting up scale sets, selecting images and sizes, and managing GPU or legacy workloads.
Why use it?
It helps manage compute workloads that need operating-system control or cannot run in containers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for creating Azure VMs, configuring disks and availability, setting up scale sets, selecting images and sizes, and managing GPU or legacy workloads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bagelhole/devops-security-agent-skills/azure-vms
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 BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill azure-vms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,723 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 7 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Supply Chain · line 26
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 26
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 395
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 447
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 26
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 191
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 98
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.03723
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01861
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00745
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00372

Measured 7d ago against content hash 03a9d7efd1ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-vms 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 7d 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.

infrastructure/cloud-azure/azure-vms/SKILL.md · 508 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 508 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Virtual Machines

Deploy and manage Azure VMs, availability sets, scale sets, custom images, and managed disks. Covers VM creation, sizing, disk management, auto-scaling, and Terraform configurations for production environments.

When to Use

  • You need full control over the operating system and runtime environment.
  • Your application requires specific OS configurations or kernel modules.
  • You are running legacy applications that cannot be containerized.
  • You need GPU-accelerated compute for ML training or rendering.
  • You need high-availability compute with availability zones or scale sets.

Prerequisites

# Install Azure CLI
curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

# Login and set subscription
az login
az account set --subscription "my-subscription-id"

# Create resource group
az group create --name compute-rg --location eastus

# List available VM sizes in a region
az vm list-sizes --location eastus --output table

# List available VM images
az vm image list --output table
az vm image list --publisher Canonical --offer 0001-com-ubuntu-server-jammy --all --output table

VM Creation

Linux VM with SSH Key

az vm create \
  --resource-group compute-rg \
  --name myapp-vm \
  --image Ubuntu2204 \
  --size Standard_D4s_v5 \
  --admin-username azureuser \
  --generate-ssh-keys \
  --vnet-name myapp-vnet \
  --subnet app-subnet \
  --nsg "" \
  --public-ip-address "" \
  --os-disk-size-gb 64 \
  --os-disk-caching ReadWrite \
  --storage-sku Premium_LRS \
  --zone 1 \
  --assign-identity \
  --tags environment=prod team=platform app=myapp

# SSH into the VM (if public IP assigned)
ssh azureuser@$(az vm show -g compute-rg -n myapp-vm -d --query publicIps -o tsv)

Windows VM

az vm create \
  --resource-group compute-rg \
  --name myapp-win-vm \
  --image Win2022Datacenter \
  --size Standard_D4s_v5 \
  --admin-username azureadmin \
  --admin-password 'S3cur3P@ssw0rd!' \
  --vnet-name myapp-vnet \
  --subnet app-subnet \
  --public-ip-address "" \
  --os-disk-size-gb 128 \
  --storage-sku Premium_LRS \
  --zone 1

Read the full file on GitHub · 508 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 508 lines · 27 tokens per session scan F 03a9d7efd1ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-vms is a skill published in the GitHub repository BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills (1,071 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 3,723 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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