azure-networking-and-edge

azure-networking-and-edge is a skill for Claude Code from jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,812 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing and reviewing Azure networks and internet-facing services. It covers virtual networks, private connections, firewalls, gateways, traffic routing, and edge protection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating network layouts, exposing internal services, configuring private access or gateways, and reviewing TLS, firewall, WAF, peering, VPN, or egress choices.
Why use it?
It helps you plan how Azure services communicate and identify exposure, latency, security, or cross-region data-transfer problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Creating network layouts, exposing internal services, configuring private access or gateways, and reviewing TLS, firewall, WAF, peering, VPN, or egress choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills/azure-networking-and-edge
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills --skill azure-networking-and-edge
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 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,812 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 $0.00070 $0.02812
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01406
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00281

Measured 12d ago against content hash e8c0338ef82b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-networking-and-edge 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-networking-and-edge/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Networking and Edge

When to use

  • Designing a new VNet for a subscription or workload.
  • Exposing an internal service to the internet or to another VNet / subscription.
  • Tuning TLS, WAF, or DDoS posture at the edge.
  • Auditing east-west connectivity (VNet peering, Private Link, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute).
  • Tracing latency or cross-region egress cost.

VNet layout — the boring default

  • One VNet per environment (dev / stage / prod). Hub-spoke topology when you have more than two workload VNets or any compliance pressure — the hub VNet is the cheapest blast-radius boundary Azure gives you for centralized inspection.
  • Address space: /16 per VNet. /24 or /22 per subnet — leave headroom; Azure reserves 5 addresses per subnet.
  • Subnets per design (not one-per-AZ like AWS — Azure subnets span all AZs in a region):
    • snet-appgw — Application Gateway; requires a dedicated subnet, minimum /26.
    • snet-app — application workloads (App Service VNet integration, Container Apps, AKS user pool).
    • snet-data — private endpoints for storage, databases, caches.
    • snet-mgmt — Azure Bastion or management jump services.
  • IPv6 dual-stack if the workload has large-scale egress or cross-region replication needs; Azure public IPv4 charges apply for any static public IP.
  • NSG Flow Logs to a Storage Account (cheap) and optionally to Traffic Analytics via Log Analytics for visibility.

Subnet, NSG, and route table discipline

  • NSGs: stateful, the primary per-subnet control. Associate one NSG per subnet; reference Azure Service Tags (AzureLoadBalancer, AzureMonitor, Storage.EastUS) instead of raw CIDRs for intra-Azure traffic.
  • Default-deny posture: NSG inbound rule 65000 DenyAllInBound is implicit. Add explicit allows for required traffic only. Never add an inbound allow for port 22 or 3389 to 0.0.0.0/0.
  • Application security groups (ASGs): group VMs and pods by role (ASG asg-app, asg-db) and reference ASGs in NSG rules for readable intent without CIDR fragility.
  • UDRs (User Defined Routes): force-tunnel 0.0.0.0/0 via Azure Firewall in the hub for any subnet that should not have direct internet egress.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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 · 147 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A e8c0338ef82b

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azure-networking-and-edge is a skill published in the GitHub repository jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills (8 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,812 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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