What is apex-iac-common?

A shared procedure for planning and deploying infrastructure as code, meaning written configuration that creates and manages cloud resources with Bicep or Terraform.

Use it to plan deployments, choose deployment commands, apply phased changes, and stop when governance or budget rules fail.

It provides common checks, deployment stages, approval gates, and stop conditions for infrastructure changes.

apex-iac-common — Skill for Claude Code by jonathan-vella

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 jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator --skill apex-iac-common

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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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 1,968 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	$0.00106	$0.01968
Opus 5.5	$0.00042	$0.00787
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00394
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00197

Measured 23d ago against content hash 9854c4514a9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apex-iac-common 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.

.github/skills/apex-iac-common/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IaC Common Skill

Shared planning, codegen and deployment contracts used by Bicep and Terraform agents and their explicitly authorized leaf workers.

Preflight validation (CLI auth, governance mapping, stop rules, known issues) has moved to the apex-azure-validate skill. See apex-azure-validate/references/infraops-preflight.md.

Rules

Preflight first — 07b/07t use the APEX branch of apex-azure-validate and the shared deploy readiness contract; generic applications use their prepared plan and recorded proof. Preflight never starts generic preparation for APEX.
azd by default — use azd provision / azd up for all new projects. The legacy deploy.ps1 path is deprecated; full decision matrix in references/azd-vs-deploy-guide.md.
Phased deployment for high-risk changes — split into Foundation → Security → Data → Compute → Edge with user approval at each gate
Circuit breaker — stop deployment automatically when policy violations, governance failures, or budget breaches are detected; surface to user before retrying
Set environment values before --no-prompt — AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_RESOURCE_GROUP, AZURE_ENV_NAME, AZURE_LOCATION must all be present (azd env get-values)
Use azd env new {project}-{env} to avoid environment-name collisions across projects
Out of scope: preflight (use apex-azure-validate); code generation (use apex-azure-bicep-patterns or apex-terraform-patterns)

Steps

Standard deploy flow used by 07b-Bicep Deploy and 07t-Terraform Deploy:

Preflight — use APEX-mode apex-azure-validate (auth, governance, handoff/readiness); return results and stop for validation-only
Set environment — azd env set AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/RESOURCE_GROUP/LOCATION + verify via azd env get-values
Preview — azd provision --preview (Bicep) or terraform plan (Terraform); user reviews destructive operations
Approve gate — user explicitly approves the preview before any apply
Apply — azd provision / azd up (Bicep) or terraform apply (Terraform); for high-risk projects, deploy in phases (Foundation → Security → Data → Compute → Edge)
Circuit-break on failure — stop on policy/governance/budget violations; surface diagnostics to user
Hand off to 08-As-Built for documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

20 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.

23d ago First seen · 120 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 9854c4514a9e

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apex-iac-common is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,968 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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