deployment-stacks-2025

deployment-stacks-2025 is a skill for Claude Code from JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace. It costs 153 tokens per session (3,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for Azure Deployment Stacks, which manage a group of Azure cloud resources as one unit. It explains protection settings, cleanup behaviour, deployment scope, and Bicep usage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing deployment stacks, choosing delete or detach behaviour, protecting resources, or deploying stacks with Bicep.
Why use it?
It helps teams control the lifecycle of related cloud resources and avoid accidental updates or deletions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the azure-master plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing deployment stacks, choosing delete or detach behaviour, protecting resources, or deploying stacks with Bicep.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/deployment-stacks-2025
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 JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace --skill deployment-stacks-2025
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-master, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,950 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00153 $0.03950
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01975
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00790
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00395

Measured 13d ago against content hash c23baee4e883, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deployment-stacks-2025 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 13d 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.

plugins/azure-master/skills/deployment-stacks-2025/SKILL.md · 652 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 652 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Deployment Stacks - 2025 GA Features

Complete knowledge base for Azure Deployment Stacks, the successor to Azure Blueprints (GA 2024, best practices 2025).

Overview

Azure Deployment Stacks is a resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single, atomic unit. It provides unified lifecycle management, resource protection, and automatic cleanup capabilities.

Key Features

1. Unified Resource Management

  • Manage multiple resources as a single entity
  • Update, export, and delete operations on the entire stack
  • Track all managed resources in one place
  • Consistent deployment across environments

2. Deny Settings (Resource Protection)

Prevent unauthorized modifications to managed resources:

  • None: No restrictions (default)
  • DenyDelete: Prevent resource deletion
  • DenyWriteAndDelete: Prevent updates and deletions

3. ActionOnUnmanage (Cleanup Policies)

Control what happens to resources no longer in template:

  • detachAll: Remove from stack management, keep resources
  • deleteAll: Delete resources not in template
  • deleteResources: Delete unmanaged resources, keep resource groups

4. Scope Flexibility

Deploy stacks at:

  • Resource group scope
  • Subscription scope
  • Management group scope

5. Replaces Azure Blueprints

Azure Blueprints will be deprecated in July 2026. Deployment Stacks is the recommended replacement.

Prerequisites

Azure CLI Version

# Requires Azure CLI 2.61.0 or later
az version

# Upgrade if needed
az upgrade

Azure PowerShell Version

# Requires Azure PowerShell 12.0.0 or later
Get-InstalledModule -Name Az
Update-Module -Name Az

Creating Deployment Stacks

Subscription Scope Stack

# Create deployment stack at subscription level
az stack sub create \
  --name MyProductionStack \
  --location eastus \
  --template-file main.bicep \
  --parameters @parameters.json \
  --deny-settings-mode DenyWriteAndDelete \
  --deny-settings-excluded-principals <devops-service-principal-id> <admin-group-id> \
  --action-on-unmanage deleteAll \
  --description "Production infrastructure managed by deployment stack" \
  --tags Environment=Production ManagedBy=DeploymentStack CostCenter=Engineering

# What-if analysis before deployment
az stack sub what-if \
  --name MyProductionStack \
  --location eastus \
  --template-file main.bicep \
  --parameters @parameters.json

# Create with confirmation prompt disabled
az stack sub create \
  --name MyDevStack \
  --location eastus \
  --template-file main.bicep \
  --deny-settings-mode None \
  --action-on-unmanage detachAll \
  --yes

Read the full file on GitHub · 652 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 652 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A c23baee4e883

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deployment-stacks-2025 is a skill published in the GitHub repository JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 3,950 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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