What is terraform-search-import?

A workflow for finding existing Azure resources and bringing them under Terraform management. Terraform import connects resources that already exist in Azure to configuration files instead of creating new copies.

Use it to list Azure resources, generate import blocks, create Terraform configuration, and check the result with a plan.

It helps you adopt infrastructure that was created outside Terraform while keeping the discovery and import process organized.

terraform-search-import — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by jonathan-

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 terraform-search-import

Clone the repo

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,092 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 pass 7 Sept 2026

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00086	$0.01092
Opus 5	$0.00043	$0.00546
Sonnet 5	$0.00017	$0.00218
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00109

Measured 7d ago against content hash f30d397c2832, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terraform-search-import 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/list_resources.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/terraform-search-import/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terraform Search & Import for Azure

Discover existing Azure resources and generate Terraform configuration for bulk import.

References:

Terraform Import
Terraform Search (TF 1.14+)

Decision Tree

┌─ Identify target Azure resources
│
├─ PRIMARY: Manual Discovery via az CLI (always works)
│  └─ az resource list → create import blocks → terraform plan → apply
│
└─ SECONDARY: Terraform Search (EXPERIMENTAL)
   ├─ Check: terraform version >= 1.14?
   │  └─ NO → use Manual workflow
   ├─ Check: azurerm supports list_resource_schemas for this type?
   │  └─ UNKNOWN/NO → use Manual workflow
   └─ YES to both → use Search workflow

Primary workflow = Manual Discovery via az CLI. Always works with azurerm ~> 4.0.

Search workflow is experimental — azurerm provider support for list_resource_schemas is TBD. Use Manual Discovery as the reliable default.

Rules

Manual Discovery is the primary path — always works with azurerm ~> 4.0 and Azure CLI; Terraform Search is experimental and provider support is TBD
Pin provider to ~> 4.0 — azurerm 4.x renamed many attributes (allow_blob_public_access → allow_nested_items_to_be_public, etc.); pinning to anything else causes drift after import
Plan before apply — always run terraform plan after generating import blocks; the plan should show import actions ONLY (no creates / destroys)
Adopt AVM modules post-import — raw azurerm_* is acceptable as a temporary state; refactor to Azure/avm-res-* modules with moved {} blocks (see terraform-patterns references/refactor-module.md)
Document the source — in the imported resource block, comment the originating az resource list query so future runs can be reproduced
Out of scope: Bicep code (use azure-bicep-patterns), new resource creation (use terraform-patterns), architecture decisions (use azure-adr)

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

7d ago First seen · 95 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A f30d397c2832

Subscribe to this mod's changes

terraform-search-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathan-vella/apex-accelerator (50 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,092 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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terraform-search-import

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

Terraform Search & Import for Azure

Decision Tree

Rules

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

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