azure-compute

azure-compute is a skill for Claude Code from jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing and designing computing services on Microsoft Azure, including serverless functions, containers, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and batch jobs. It also covers capacity, scaling, cost, speed, and availability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting a deployment platform, sizing resources, configuring autoscaling, and reviewing Azure compute designs.
Why use it?
It helps you choose an Azure runtime that fits the workload instead of guessing between many overlapping services.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cloud-azure plugin — 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Selecting a deployment platform, sizing resources, configuring autoscaling, and reviewing Azure compute designs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills/azure-compute
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 jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills --skill azure-compute
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-azure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,496 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 $0.00060 $0.02496
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01248
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00250

Measured 12d ago against content hash 17646d607fa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-compute 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 12d 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.

cloud-azure/skills/azure-compute/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Compute

When to use

  • Choosing between serverless, container, and VM-based compute for a new workload.
  • Tuning Azure Functions plan type, memory, or cold-start behaviour.
  • Right-sizing AKS node pools or App Service plans.
  • Deciding between AKS, Container Apps, App Service, and Container Instances.
  • Reviewing autoscaling, node-pool topology, and workload scheduling.
  • Auditing Managed Identity assignments attached to compute resources.

Decision tree

  1. Event-driven, short bursts, variable load, no persistent connections — Azure Functions (Consumption or Flex Consumption).
  2. Long-running HTTP service, team wants managed containers without Kubernetes — Container Apps (serverless-scale) or App Service (plan-based, deterministic pricing).
  3. Container fleet with sidecars, GitOps, multi-tenant, custom CRDs, service mesh — AKS.
  4. Ephemeral sidecar jobs, ad-hoc tasks, no persistent pod lifecycle needed — Container Instances.
  5. GPU, custom kernel, license-restricted image, or 14-day+ stateful workloads — Azure VMs (v5 / v6 families).
  6. Throughput-intensive batch (rendering, genomics, ML training, ETL at scale) — Azure Batch on dedicated or Spot VMs.

Defaults

Azure Functions

  • Plan: start with Flex Consumption for new workloads — granular per-instance scaling with always-ready instances available. Fall back to Premium for VNET integration + no cold-start requirements; Consumption only for true infrequent event processing.
  • Runtime: pin the major version explicitly in functionAppConfig; never rely on auto-upgrade.
  • Identity: system-assigned Managed Identity — no connection strings or storage account keys in app settings.
  • Networking: deploy into a VNet-integrated subnet when the function needs private PaaS resources; delegate the subnet to Microsoft.App/environments or Microsoft.Web/serverFarms as appropriate.
  • Idempotency: every trigger handler must be safely retried. Service Bus and Event Hubs triggers guarantee at-least-once delivery.
  • Storage: the backing storage account uses private endpoint + Managed Identity authentication; disable shared-key access (allowSharedKeyAccess: false).

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 137 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 17646d607fa0

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azure-compute is a skill published in the GitHub repository jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills (8 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,496 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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