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/terraform-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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/terraform-patterns)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/terraform-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/terraform-patterns/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/terraform-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator/terraform-patterns.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00090 | $0.01804 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00045 | $0.00902 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00361 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00180 |
Grade A, and why
terraform-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 7d 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 — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Terraform Patterns Skill
Composable architecture building blocks for Azure Terraform. Complements
iac-terraform-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 | references/hub-spoke-pattern.md |
| Private Endpoint Wiring | Any PaaS service requiring private connectivity | references/private-endpoint-pattern.md |
| Diagnostic Settings | Every deployed resource (mandatory) | references/common-patterns.md |
| Conditional Deployment | Optional resources controlled by variables | references/common-patterns.md |
| Module Composition | Calling multiple AVM modules in root module | See inline example below |
| Managed Identity | Any service-to-service authentication | references/common-patterns.md |
| Budget & Cost Monitoring | Every deployment (mandatory) | references/budget-pattern.md |
| Plan Interpretation | Pre-deployment validation and change analysis | references/plan-interpretation.md |
| AVM Pitfalls | Set-type diffs, provider pins, 4.x changes | references/avm-pitfalls.md |
| AVM Authoring | AVM certification requirements, compliance | references/avm-authoring-requirements.md |
| Module Refactoring | Monolith → module extraction, state migration | references/refactor-module.md |
What ships with it
15 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-authoring-requirements.md 6.4 KB
- references/avm-pitfalls.md 6.7 KB
- references/azuread-pattern.md 4.8 KB
- references/bootstrap-backend-template.md 3.8 KB
- references/budget-pattern.md 610 B
- references/codegen-validation-checklist.md 1.1 KB
- references/common-patterns.md 5.6 KB
- references/deploy-script-template.md 3.4 KB
- references/hub-spoke-pattern.md 1.5 KB
- references/module-composition.md 1.5 KB
- references/plan-interpretation.md 1.6 KB
- references/private-endpoint-pattern.md 2.2 KB
- references/project-scaffold.md 2.9 KB
- references/refactor-module.md 7.7 KB
- references/tf-best-practices-examples.md 7.5 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.
- 7d ago First seen · 115 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 79efedbd20f3
terraform-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,804 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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