alz-accelerator

alz-accelerator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (2,084 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deploying Azure Landing Zones, a structured foundation for managing Azure accounts, policies, networking, and security. It uses Azure Verified Modules, reusable infrastructure components maintained for Azure, through Microsoft's ALZ Accelerator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and deploy management groups, hub-and-spoke networks, Virtual WAN, policies, CI/CD pipelines, and other landing-zone components.
Why use it?
It helps set up the shared Azure foundation consistently and choose between Terraform and Bicep, two tools for describing infrastructure as code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan and deploy management groups, hub-and-spoke networks, Virtual WAN, policies, CI/CD pipelines, and other landing-zone components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/alz-accelerator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill alz-accelerator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,084 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 129
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 164
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 188
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00108 $0.02084
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01042
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00208

Measured 10d ago against content hash b41f86b729a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alz-accelerator 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 10d 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.

skills/alz-accelerator/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Landing Zones Accelerator Skill

Deploy Azure Landing Zones using the ALZ Accelerator with Azure Verified Modules (AVM). This skill captures the recommended workflow, decision framework, and best practices from the ALZ core team.

Key Concepts

AVM (Azure Verified Modules): An infrastructure-as-code standard for deploying Azure resources following best practices. AVM has resource modules (single resources) and pattern modules (complex architectural patterns composed from resource modules). AVM is the only recommended way to deploy Azure Landing Zones infrastructure.

ALZ Accelerator: A tool that bootstraps the entire Azure Landing Zone deployment including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and infrastructure configuration. It uses AVM modules under the hood.

Deployment Stacks (Bicep): Used by the Bicep accelerator to handle resource lifecycle management, eliminating the pain of manually managing policy assignments and resource deletions.

Decision Framework: Bicep vs Terraform

Guide the user through this decision before proceeding with deployment.

When to Choose Terraform

  • Team already has Terraform expertise
  • Multi-cloud strategy (AWS, GCP, Azure) — avoids learning two IaC languages
  • Terraform ALZ modules are more mature (released ~early 2025) with full configuration via tfvars
  • Need for state-based drift detection

When to Choose Bicep

  • Azure-only organization with no multi-cloud plans
  • Team familiar with ARM templates or Azure-native tooling
  • No state file to manage (pro and con — simpler ops but less drift visibility)
  • Microsoft ARM/Bicep product groups recommend Bicep for Azure-only shops
  • Bicep ALZ released ~Feb 2026 with full AVM support, deployment stacks, and customizable modules

Neutral Position

  • Both use AVM modules — same underlying resource definitions
  • Both are supported by the accelerator with identical bootstrapping UX
  • The gap between them is closing rapidly in 2026
  • Default recommendation: Match the team's existing skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 212 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A b41f86b729a3

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alz-accelerator is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 2,084 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 2026-08-31.

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