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.
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/azure-skills/deploynpx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill deploygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skillsWrote 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/azure-skills/deploy)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/deploy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/deploy.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00000 | $0.01857 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00928 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00371 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00186 |
Grade A, and why
deploy 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Deploy — IaC Execution & Health Verification
Quick Reference
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Best for | Executing validated IaC against Azure, health-checking deployed resources |
| Inputs | prepare-plan.json + scaffold-manifest.json from .copilot-azure/sessions/{id}/ |
| Outputs | deploy-result.json written to session directory |
| Parent | azure-app-onboard |
When to Use This Skill
Invoked by the azure-app-onboard orchestrator at Phase 4 when scaffold-manifest.json exists with files[] and validationResult. Not directly user-routable.
Return to orchestrator: When complete, return control to
azure-app-onboardfor handoff (Step 10). Do NOT start new phases.
When NOT to Use
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
| Plan architecture, map services, estimate costs | prepare |
| Generate IaC files from a plan | azure-app-onboard Step 7 (scaffold) |
Run azd up or execute existing deployment templates |
azure-deploy |
| Debug a running app after deployment | azure-diagnostics |
| Optimize existing Azure spending | azure-cost |
Workflow
⛔ Sub-agent delegation is MANDATORY for Step 0. Read
subagent-preflight.md, then dispatch as ataskwith the COMPLETE and UNMODIFIED template text between<<<TEMPLATE_START>>>/<<<TEMPLATE_END>>>delimiters. Do NOT summarize or rewrite the template — the sub-agent needs every "Read [file]" instruction to produce a correctdeploy-checklist.md. Append session artifact data AFTER the template block. If your next action after reading the template is anything other thantask, you are executing it inline instead of delegating.
⛔ Healing loop: ask user after 3 attempts, then every 5 (counter =
healingAttempts[].length).
⛔ Region lock: Before
az deploymentretry, compare--locationagainstprepare-plan.json.deploymentVariables.location. If changed → re-approval gate required. Update plan after approval.
What ships with it
15 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.
- references/approval-gate-template.md 2.9 KB
- references/blocked-patterns.md 5.7 KB
- references/code-deployment-appservice.md 4.6 KB
- references/code-deployment-container-apps.md 8.4 KB
- references/code-deployment-swa.md 5.7 KB
- references/database-post-deploy.md 4.5 KB
- references/deploy-checklist-template.md 10 KB
- references/deploy-safety.md 4.5 KB
- references/deploy-schemas.ts 3.5 KB runs code
- references/error-classification.md 3.6 KB
- references/health-check-patterns.md 5.5 KB
- references/mcp-tools.md 5.5 KB
- references/portal-links.md 3.1 KB
- references/preflight-checks.md 4.4 KB
- references/subagent-preflight.md 5.1 KB
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 50 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9b0ec210a511
deploy is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,439 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,857 tokens. 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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