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.
npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator --skill apex-azure-defaultsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-acceleratorWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/apex-azure-defaults)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/apex-azure-defaults"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/apex-azure-defaults/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/apex-azure-defaults"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/apex-azure-defaults.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00089 | $0.01288 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.00515 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00258 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00129 |
Grade A, and why
apex-azure-defaults 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 23d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Defaults
Apply the canonical defaults from
.github/copilot-instructions.md
without duplicating them here. Live governance discovered for the target scope
always overrides repository defaults.
Prerequisites
- Reuse the canonical Azure Defaults section while current and available; reload missing required guidance after edits, compaction or a new chat.
- Read
04-governance-constraints.jsonwhen it exists. - Read
sku-manifest.jsonfor creative SKU decisions; do not derive SKUs from artifact prose. - Load only the reference needed for the current decision.
IaC Workflow
- Resolve governance precedence — apply live policy constraints before fallback regions, tags, networking, cost, or security defaults.
- Generate one stable suffix — derive it once from deployment scope and pass it to every globally unique resource name.
- Apply CAF naming — use resource-specific abbreviations and length limits; load naming examples when constraints differ by service.
- Resolve AVM modules live — prefer AVM, pin the latest stable version at plan time, and record justified stale-pin exceptions in the IaC contract.
- Apply canonical security defaults — load the networking and security baseline before security elicitation or design; do not offer baseline opt-outs. Load AVM pitfalls only when module parameters or lifecycle constraints require detail.
- Run conditional planning gates — apply VNet and cost-monitoring workflows when their triggers hold; governance remains authoritative.
- Check service lifecycle — use the latest supported GA LTS runtime and reject retired, classic, preview, or short-lifecycle choices for durable production workloads unless explicitly approved.
- Validate the output — run the stack validator and the security, AVM pin, SKU coverage, and governance checks relevant to the produced IaC.
What ships with it
26 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.
- references/adversarial-checklists.md 23 KB
- references/adversarial-review-deep.md 4.4 KB
- references/adversarial-review-protocol.md 35 KB
- references/artifact-type-categories.md 2.2 KB
- references/avm-modules.md 4.8 KB
- references/azure-cli-auth-validation.md 2.3 KB
- references/cost-alerts-baseline.md 9.0 KB
- references/cost-alerts-bicep.md 9.0 KB
- references/cost-alerts-terraform.md 5.6 KB
- references/cost-estimate-parent-contract.md 9.1 KB
- references/deprecated-services.md 1.8 KB
- references/governance-discovery.md 4.0 KB
- references/identity-resolution.md 9.0 KB
- references/naming-full-examples.md 1.9 KB
- references/plan-design-decisions.md 5.3 KB
- references/policy-effect-decision-tree.md 2.0 KB
- references/pricing-guidance.md 20 KB
- references/research-workflow.md 4.6 KB
- references/security-baseline-full.md 6.2 KB
- references/service-class-menu.md 9.8 KB
- references/service-matrices.md 3.0 KB
- references/tag-strategy.md 5.4 KB
- references/terraform-conventions.md 2.1 KB
- references/vnet-planning.md 18 KB
- references/waf-criteria.md 1.4 KB
- references/workflow-gates.md 13 KB
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.
- 23d ago First seen · 100 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A e88e6f8e330b
apex-azure-defaults is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,288 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-23.
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