azure-backup

azure-backup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (9,148 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

Guidance for developing and operating Azure Backup, Microsoft's service for backing up cloud and on-premises data. It covers design, security, configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to protect Azure virtual machines, SQL and SAP HANA systems, files, disks, and on-premises workloads, including backup automation.
Why use it?
It helps you choose and configure backup protection while understanding service limits, integrations, and failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 58 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-backup
Any agent
npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-backup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install azure-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for azure-backup

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,148 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00124 $0.09148
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.04574
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01830
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00915

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4b8f8feb1d7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-backup 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 3d 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/azure-backup/SKILL.md · 323 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines · +11 tokens per session 4b8f8feb1d7d
  2. 4d ago First seen · 322 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 3f5d3f496bdf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-backup is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (733 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 9,148 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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