azure-policy

azure-policy is a skill for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 81 tokens per session (310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing Azure Policy rules, which automatically check or enforce how cloud resources are configured. It also covers grouped policy sets, corrective actions, and compliance queries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating policy definitions and initiatives, remediation tasks, CIS control checks, and KQL or Azure Resource Graph compliance reports.
Why use it?
It helps enforce requirements such as resource tags, approved virtual machine sizes, and security controls, while showing where resources do not comply.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Creating policy definitions and initiatives, remediation tasks, CIS control checks, and KQL or Azure Resource Graph compliance reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/azure-policy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ivegamsft/basecoat --skill azure-policy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 310 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 $0.00081 $0.00310
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00155
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00031

Measured 5d ago against content hash 51eea8ea11fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-policy 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 5d 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.

skills/azure-policy/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Azure Policy & Governance Skill

Author Azure governance controls through custom policy definitions, policy initiatives, remediation automation, and compliance reporting.

Reference Files

File Contents
references/workflow.md 6-step authoring workflow: identify → define → bundle → remediation → KQL queries → framework mapping
references/guardrails.md Authoring guardrails and agent pairing guidance
policy-definition-template.md Custom Azure Policy definition JSON
initiative-definition-template.md Policy initiative (set) definition
remediation-task-template.md DeployIfNotExists remediation task
compliance-report-template.md Azure Resource Graph and KQL compliance queries
Files

What ships with it

7 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 51eea8ea11fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-policy is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 310 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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