Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-acceleratornpx agentmods add skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/azure-bicep-patternsWrote 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.
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/azure-bicep-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/azure-bicep-patterns.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Prompt Injection · line 128 Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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 | $0.00114 | $0.02223 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00057 | $0.01111 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00445 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00222 |
Grade A, and why
azure-bicep-patterns 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Bicep Patterns Skill
Reusable infrastructure patterns for Azure Bicep templates. Complements
iac-bicep-best-practices.instructions.md (style) and azure-defaults skill (naming, tags, regions).
Canonical sources — the security baseline, AVM-first mandate, naming conventions, required tags, and unique-suffix rule live in
azure-defaults/SKILL.mdandiac-policy-compliance.md. This skill restates the rules tersely below for IaC-output convenience only; in conflict, the canonical sources win.
Quick Reference
| Pattern | When to Use | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Hub-Spoke Networking | Multi-workload environments with shared services | hub-spoke-pattern |
| Private Endpoint Wiring | Any PaaS service requiring private connectivity | private-endpoint-pattern |
| Diagnostic Settings | Every deployed resource (mandatory) | common-patterns |
| Conditional Deployment | Optional resources controlled by parameters | common-patterns |
| Module Composition | Breaking main.bicep into reusable modules | common-patterns |
| Managed Identity Binding | Any service-to-service authentication | common-patterns |
| Budget & Cost Monitoring | Every deployment (mandatory) | budget-pattern |
| What-If / AVM Pitfalls | Pre-deployment validation & AVM gotchas | avm-pitfalls |
| Batch Bicep Formatting | After generating/editing the Bicep tree | npm run format:bicep -- infra/bicep/{project} (wraps bicep format) |
What ships with it
8 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/avm-pitfalls.md 31 KB
- references/bicepparam-pattern.md 3.5 KB
- references/budget-pattern.md 592 B
- references/codegen-validation-checklist.md 4.3 KB
- references/common-patterns.md 7.9 KB
- references/hub-spoke-pattern.md 994 B
- references/module-interface.md 1.1 KB
- references/private-endpoint-pattern.md 2.2 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.
- 6d ago First seen · 132 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 4ac12473ddb9
azure-bicep-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,223 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.
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