azure-foundry

azure-foundry is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,107 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing and running AI agents on Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft's platform for building and deploying AI agents. It covers the agent lifecycle from design and development through testing, deployment, monitoring, and updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan agent capabilities, choose models, design evaluations and guardrails, and select deployment patterns for Azure AI Foundry.
Why use it?
It helps structure decisions about models, safety controls, testing, and where an agent should run on Azure. It also distinguishes planning work from operational tasks such as deployment and troubleshooting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jnpiyush/agentx/azure-foundry
Any agent
npx skills add jnPiyush/AgentX --skill azure-foundry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,107 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00106 $0.01107
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00111

Measured 6d ago against content hash 005c87113cbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-foundry 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 6d 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.

.github/skills/ai-systems/azure-foundry/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure AI Foundry

Companion Extension: For detailed operational playbooks (create agents, deploy containers, invoke endpoints, trace with App Insights, troubleshoot), install Azure MCP Extension (ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server). In VS Code it also wires in the Azure Skills plugin from microsoft/azure-skills plus Foundry MCP. AgentX recommends it when Azure files are detected and the installer can add it automatically for Azure-oriented workspaces.

When to Use This Skill

  • Designing agent architecture on Azure Foundry or Azure AI Agent Service
  • Selecting models via GitHub Models or Azure AI model catalog (cost/quality tradeoffs)
  • Planning evaluation strategy with Foundry evals (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge)
  • Defining guardrails, safety instructions, and content filtering policies
  • Choosing deployment patterns (managed endpoint vs AKS vs serverless)

Agent Lifecycle

Design -> Build -> Evaluate -> Deploy -> Monitor -> Iterate
  1. Design - Define agent capabilities, tool schemas, system prompts
  2. Build - Implement with Azure AI Agent Service or Semantic Kernel
  3. Evaluate - Run evals (RAGAS, custom rubrics, LLM-as-judge)
  4. Deploy - Azure AI Foundry managed endpoints or AKS
  5. Monitor - Application Insights + OpenTelemetry tracing
  6. Iterate - Feedback loops, prompt refinement, model updates

Tracing Pattern

All agent calls MUST include OpenTelemetry spans:

  • agent.plan - Planning/reasoning step
  • agent.tool_call - Tool invocation with input/output
  • agent.llm_call - LLM API call with model, tokens, latency
  • agent.response - Final response with quality metrics

Export to Application Insights via APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING.

Tool Definition

Tools use JSON Schema for parameters. Every tool MUST have:

  • name - Unique, descriptive identifier
  • description - What it does (used by LLM for selection)
  • parameters - JSON Schema with required fields marked

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 126 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 005c87113cbc

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azure-foundry is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,107 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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