bicep

bicep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,839 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for defining and deploying Azure cloud infrastructure with Bicep files and ARM templates. It covers reusable modules, configuration values, secrets, and checking planned changes before deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write .bicep and .bicepparam files, organize shared infrastructure modules, protect secret parameters, and validate Azure deployments.
Why use it?
It helps keep Azure setup consistent and reviewable as code, while reducing configuration mistakes and exposing risky changes before they are applied.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write .bicep and .bicepparam files, organize shared infrastructure modules, protect secret parameters, and validate Azure deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jnpiyush/agentx/bicep
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 jnPiyush/AgentX --skill bicep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,839 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00054 $0.01839
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00736
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00184

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6a4dcc503c61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bicep 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 1mo 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/infrastructure/bicep/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bicep / ARM Instructions

Purpose: Best practices for declarative Azure infrastructure deployment using Bicep, covering code style, file layout, naming, parameters, modules, user-defined types, security, and testing.


When to Use This Skill

  • Writing or editing .bicep or .bicepparam files
  • Creating reusable Bicep modules
  • Defining user-defined types for complex configurations
  • Securing infrastructure parameters
  • Validating deployments with az deployment group what-if or PSRule

Decision Tree

Bicep Decision
+-- New Azure infrastructure project?
|   +-- Single resource group? -> One main.bicep with inline resources
|   +-- Multiple resource groups? -> Use modules/ per resource group
|   +-- Shared across teams? -> Create versioned module registry
+-- Parameterizing config?
|   +-- Simple key-value? -> Use @allowed / @minLength params
|   +-- Complex shape? -> Use user-defined types (Bicep v0.30+)
|   +-- Secrets? -> Use @secure() decorator, never output values
+-- Validating before deploy?
|   +-- Syntax check? -> bicep build
|   +-- Preview changes? -> az deployment group what-if
|   +-- Compliance rules? -> PSRule for Azure
+-- Multi-cloud needed? -> Use Terraform instead

Code Style

  • Use Bicep v0.30+ features (user-defined types, lambdas, assert)
  • Use bicep format for auto-formatting
  • Use bicep lint for static analysis
  • Maximum line length: 120 characters

File Organization

infra/
+-- main.bicep          # Entry point, orchestrates modules
+-- main.bicepparam     # Parameter values
+-- modules/
|   +-- networking.bicep    # Network resources
|   +-- compute.bicep       # Compute resources
|   -- storage.bicep        # Storage resources
-- types/
    -- config.bicep         # User-defined types

Naming Conventions

Element Convention Example
Parameters camelCase resourceGroupName
Variables camelCase storageAccountName
Resources camelCase symbolic storageAccount
Modules camelCase networkModule
Outputs camelCase storageAccountId
Types PascalCase AppConfig
Files kebab-case app-service.bicep

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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. 1mo ago Changed 6a4dcc503c61
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 252 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 7c3ab3c098be

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bicep is a skill published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,839 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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