A reference guide for using Microsoft Azure, a cloud platform that provides services such as application hosting, databases, networking, identity, and monitoring. It points different engineering roles to product- and role-specific Azure information.

Work involving Azure services such as Entra ID, AKS, Container Apps, Azure Functions, App Service, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, networking, and related infrastructure or application architecture.

Azure has many products and configuration choices, so engineers can miss relevant team guidance. This gives the team a shared map of the Azure knowledge used by each role.

stack-azure — Skill for Claude Code by e-t-y-b

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 e-t-y-b/etyb-skills --skill azure

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install etyb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/azure/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/azure)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/azure"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/azure/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/azure"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/azure.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 251 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,769 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00251	$0.05769
Opus 5	$0.00125	$0.02884
Sonnet 5	$0.00050	$0.01154
Haiku 4.5	$0.00025	$0.00577

Measured 11d ago against content hash a698e0d1d5eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stack-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 11d 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.

stacks/azure/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Stack — Team Briefing

This is a knowledge overlay, not a new specialist. The existing ETYB team does the work — backend-architect writes the backend code, devops-engineer wires the deploys, security-engineer enforces the boundary. This pack tells each role where the current Azure knowledge lives.

Where the full briefing lives

The full Stack briefing lives in this same folder. Per-product and per-role pages are siblings of this SKILL.md. Every page carries last_verified_on stamps and authoritative-source URLs in its frontmatter; see skills/etyb/core/knowledge-currency.md for the drift-check protocol that uses them.

Stack briefing: stacks/azure/index.md
Per-product pages: stacks/azure/<product>.md — one per entry in products_covered above
Per-role views: stacks/azure/<role>.md — one per role in applies_to_roles above

When ETYB is installed locally these are read directly from disk. For third-party agents without the install, the same content is reachable as raw markdown at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/e-t-y-b/etyb-skills/main/stacks/azure/<page>.md.

When delegate_to_skills (frontmatter above) lists a first-party vendor MCP/skill that's installed in the user's environment, ETYB defers to it first. The in-repo Stack content is the curated fallback.

What changed in 2025-2026 that older training data misses

Critical context — an LLM with a 2024 cutoff will get these wrong:

Azure AD is now Microsoft Entra ID (renamed July 2023). The tenant, the SDKs, the portal blade — all "Entra". Saying "Azure AD" in 2026 reads as out-of-date; the brand and docs are Entra.
Azure AD B2C is now Entra External ID (renamed 2024). New builds use External ID; B2C tenants exist but are in legacy support — do not propose a new B2C tenant in 2026.
Azure AI Studio is now Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry (2024-25). Same product, expanded scope (Foundry Agents, model catalog, evaluation). Use "Foundry" or "AI Foundry" in current voice.
Azure Cognitive Search is now Azure AI Search (renamed 2023). Same service.
Azure Stack HCI is now Azure Local (renamed 2024-25). New docs use "Azure Local".
Azure Functions in-process .NET model is phasing out through late 2026 — migrate to the isolated worker model. New Functions projects should never use in-process.
Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is retiring. Replacement: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server with Elastic Clusters (Citus extension). Flag immediately if anyone proposes Cosmos for PostgreSQL on a new build.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server retired March 2025. Only Flexible Server is current.
Azure Cache for Redis classic tiers (Basic/Standard/Premium/Enterprise/EnterpriseFlash) are being migrated to Azure Managed Redis. Migration tooling phased: Basic/Standard/Premium from Nov 2025; Enterprise/EnterpriseFlash from March 2026. New builds choose Azure Managed Redis.
NSG Flow Logs are retired (mandatory migration by mid-2025) — use VNet Flow Logs.
AKS Pod Identity and Pod Identity v2 retired — only Workload Identity (OIDC-federated) is supported. KEDA 2.15+ removed Pod Identity support entirely.
AKS Long-Term Support (LTS) channels (GA 2025) — extended support for Kubernetes versions beyond the standard community window. Use for regulated workloads that can't keep up with the K8s release cadence.
Azure Functions Flex Consumption (GA 2024) — pay-per-execution with always-ready instances + VNet integration + zone redundancy. The new default for production serverless.
Entra Agent ID (Ignite 2025) — first-class Entra identity for AI agents. Conditional Access, PIM, audit logging applied to agent identities the same way as humans.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

Files

What ships with it

50 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.

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.

11d ago First seen · 207 lines · 251 tokens per session scan A a698e0d1d5eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stack-azure is a skill published in the GitHub repository e-t-y-b/etyb-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 251 tokens to every session and 5,769 once invoked, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.

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