What is alz-accelerator?

Instructions for deploying an Azure Landing Zone, a prepared foundation for managing Azure subscriptions, using Microsoft's official ALZ Accelerator. It covers Terraform and Bicep infrastructure-as-code options and the accelerator's deployment stages.

Use it to choose an infrastructure-as-code variant, bootstrap repositories and deployment pipelines, deploy platform foundations, customize modules, and plan migration from classic ALZ-Bicep to AVM Bicep.

It helps turn an already-decided Azure architecture into a repeatable deployment and keeps that deployment aligned with updated modules and policies.

alz-accelerator — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by janegilring

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 janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones --skill alz-accelerator

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 213 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,587 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	$0.00213	$0.01587
Opus 5.5	$0.00085	$0.00635
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00043	$0.00317
Haiku 4.5	$0.00021	$0.00159

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6a79f9cd78aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alz-accelerator 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 2mo 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/alz-accelerator/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ALZ Accelerator

Overview

The Azure Landing Zones Accelerator turns the conceptual ALZ architecture into a deployable platform: management groups, policies, the platform subscriptions (Connectivity, Identity, Management), and the connectivity foundation, delivered as infrastructure as code. It ships in three IaC flavors — Terraform and Bicep (both on Azure Verified Modules), plus the original ALZ-Bicep "classic" framework. This skill is the implementation layer: it assumes the architecture is already decided (the caf-* design-area skills) and focuses on how to bootstrap and deploy it. Tool-specific detail lives in references/.

When to use this skill

Choosing between the Terraform, Bicep (AVM), and Bicep classic accelerators.
Running the bootstrap (repos, pipelines, deployment identity) before deploying the platform.
Deploying and tailoring the platform / starter modules through the accelerator phases.
Planning a migration from ALZ-Bicep classic → Bicep (AVM).
Keeping an accelerator deployment up to date with upstream module/AVM/policy releases.

Key concepts

IaC variants:
- terraform — Azure/alz-terraform-accelerator, using AVM for Terraform (the platform landing zone module).
- bicep — the current Bicep accelerator built on Azure Verified Modules.
- bicep-classic — the original Azure/ALZ-Bicep framework (still supported; migrate to AVM Bicep when ready).
Phases — the accelerator follows a phased path: planning → prerequisites → getting started → deployment. See references/phases.md.
Bootstrap — one-time setup of the toolchain (Git repo, CI/CD, service connection, and a least-privilege deployment identity using OIDC/workload identity federation) that precedes platform deployment. See references/bootstrap.md.
Starter / platform module — the opinionated module that deploys the management groups, policies, and platform resources; you tailor it to your design.
Azure Verified Modules (AVM) — Microsoft-verified building blocks. Reached via the bicep MCP server (list_avm_metadata) and the Terraform Registry; there is no separate AVM server.
Azure Landing Zones Library — shared definitions (archetypes, policies) consumed by the accelerators.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

2mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A 6a79f9cd78aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alz-accelerator is a skill published in the GitHub repository janegilring/awesome-azure-landing-zones (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 1,587 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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