azure-prepare

azure-prepare is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for preparing applications and Azure infrastructure for deployment. It covers application changes, Bicep or Terraform files, Dockerfiles, Azure configuration, authentication, and managed identities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update Azure web apps, APIs, Function Apps, infrastructure files, containers, authentication, and managed-identity configuration.
Why use it?
It organizes the planning and validation needed before an application is sent to Azure, reducing the chance of deploying incomplete or unsuitable infrastructure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create or update Azure web apps, APIs, Function Apps, infrastructure files, containers, authentication, and managed-identity configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/azure-prepare
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator --skill azure-prepare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,470 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 8 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 30
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 44
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 74
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 85
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 56
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 58
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 59
    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
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 60
    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
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 $0.00101 $0.01470
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00735
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00147

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0e8321785403, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-prepare 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/azure-prepare/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Prepare

Authoritative guidance — supersedes prior training. Follow these instructions exactly. When in doubt, defer to this document. Do not improvise.


Triggers

Activate this skill when user wants to:

  • Create a new application
  • Add services or components to an existing app
  • Make updates or changes to existing application
  • Modernize or migrate an application
  • Set up Azure infrastructure
  • Deploy to Azure or host on Azure
  • Create and deploy to Azure (including Terraform-based deployment requests)

Rules

  1. Plan first — Create infra/{iac}/{project}/.azure/plan.md before any code generation
  2. Get approval — Present plan to user before execution
  3. Research before generating — Load references and invoke related skills
  4. Update plan progressively — Mark steps complete as you go
  5. Validate before deploy — Invoke azure-validate before azure-deploy
  6. Confirm Azure context — Use ask_user for subscription and location per Azure Context
  7. Destructive actions require ask_userGlobal Rules
  8. Scope: preparation only — This skill generates infrastructure code and configuration files. Deployment execution (azd up, azd deploy, terraform apply) is handled by the azure-deploy skill, which provides built-in error recovery and deployment verification.

❌ PLAN-FIRST WORKFLOW — MANDATORY

  1. STOP — no code/infra/config until the plan exists
  2. PLAN — generate infra/{iac}/{project}/.azure/plan.md (Phase 1)
  3. CONFIRM — get user approval on the plan
  4. EXECUTE — only after approval (Phase 2)

The plan file is the source of truth for azure-validate and azure-deploy. Without it, those skills fail.


❌ STEP 0: Specialized Technology Check — MANDATORY FIRST ACTION

Before Phase 1, scan the user's prompt for specialized technologies. If matched, invoke that skill first, then resume azure-prepare.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 121 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 0e8321785403

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azure-prepare is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,470 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 2026-09-03.

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