microsoft/agentic-journeys is a collection of guided projects that shows how AI coding agents and skills can plan, build, and deploy applications on Azure. It is for developers building Azure applications and teams evaluating agent-assisted development workflows, including APIs, databases, frontends, and AI features. The catalogue entries supply skills, agents, and instructions used in these journeys.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/agentic-journeys. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/agentic-journeys/main/.github/skills/journey-runner/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agentic-journeysWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/agentic-journeys/journey-runner)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/agentic-journeys/journey-runner"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/agentic-journeys/journey-runner/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/agentic-journeys/journey-runner"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/agentic-journeys/journey-runner.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00113 | $0.07219 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00045 | $0.02888 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.01444 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00722 |
Grade A, and why
journey-runner 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 29d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to journey-runner — 58 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Journey Runner Skill
Run a journey like a learner would, but with strict preflight, isolated state, evidence-backed verification, and scoped cleanup. The workflow must work on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Required Runner Tools
The runner itself requires:
- Node.js LTS or later
- Azure CLI
- Azure Developer CLI (
azd) 1.28.0 or later - GitHub Copilot CLI
Screenshot runs additionally require the local Playwright package and bundled Chromium under scripts/. Installation options for all operating systems are in ../../../docs/tool-installation.md.
Do not install system tools during a run. Report the missing tool, its install link, and the validation command, then stop before generating code or creating Azure resources. Project-local npm ci for the checked-in runner helpers is allowed only during explicit runner setup, not as a surprise halfway through a journey.
Inputs and Defaults
Inputs:
- Journey path, such as
journeys/smart-todo/ - Stack choice when the journey supports multiple stacks
- Azure subscription for deployment runs
- Cleanup policy:
after-verificationorleave-running
Defaults:
| Behavior | Default |
|---|---|
| Deploy to Azure | Yes, when the journey contains a deployment phase |
| Cleanup | after-verification |
| Stack | Use the only option; ask before starting when multiple materially different stacks exist |
| Verification failure | Record the failure, attempt one evidence-based repair, then stop that phase if it still fails |
| Output | Concise phase summary plus artifact paths and actual command results |
Only use leave-running when the user explicitly requests it.
Step 0: Parse the Journey
Read the journey's README.md, PLAN.md when present, and every associated journey skill. Extract:
- Journey type and phases
- Prompts to send to Copilot
- Commands and generated scripts
- Required and optional host tools
- Local ports
- Deployment outputs
- Verification criteria
- Platform gates such as Xcode
What ships with it
11 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.
- issues.md 9.8 KB
- scripts/capture-screenshot.mjs 2.9 KB runs code
- scripts/check-prerequisites.mjs 4.7 KB runs code
- scripts/extract-prompts.mjs 2.6 KB runs code
- scripts/package-lock.json 1.6 KB
- scripts/package.json 501 B
- scripts/refresh-azure-oidc.mjs 2.5 KB runs code
- scripts/run-command.mjs 2.0 KB runs code
- scripts/run-copilot-prompt.mjs 10 KB runs code
- scripts/run-journey.mjs 37 KB runs code
- scripts/summarize-run.mjs 1.4 KB runs code
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.
- 29d ago Changed 1c7e4dcfe2c0
- 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines 6f1e79dc4640
- 1mo ago Changed · +28 lines f770dbf1313a
- 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines a2e4f1ba33e5
- 2mo ago First seen · 302 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 705f4a4671fd
journey-runner is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agentic-journeys (6 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 7,219 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to journey-runner, differing in 58 lines, and is treated as a copy.
journey-runner compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| journey-runnermicrosoft/agentic-journeys | Skill | 6 | 12d ago | MIT | A | 113 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-compute-classesgoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 83 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-reliabilitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 85 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-workload-securitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 171 | Claude Code, Codex |
| cloud-architectJeffallan/claude-skills | Skill | 12k | 7d ago | MIT | A | 71 | Claude Code |
| nemo-automodel-launcher-configNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 30 | Claude Code |
| azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnetmicrosoft/skills | Skill | 3.2k | yesterday | MIT | A | 78 | Claude Code |