azure-dev-box

azure-dev-box is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (2,250 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

A guide to Azure Dev Box, a managed cloud workstation service for giving developers ready-to-use development machines. It covers images, catalogs, pools, access control, sign-in, region moves, and VS Code development tunnels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design Dev Box images and pools, manage catalogs and permissions, configure single sign-on, move resources between regions, or set up VS Code dev tunnels.
Why use it?
It helps you configure shared developer environments correctly and resolve access, security, and deployment problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 148 skills shipped together , and of azure-agent-skills

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-dev-box
Any agent
npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-dev-box
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 148 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,250 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 $0.00118 $0.02250
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00225

Measured yesterday against content hash c29acecf0f5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-dev-box 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 yesterday.

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-dev-box/SKILL.md · 111 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. yesterday First seen · 111 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A c29acecf0f5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-dev-box is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (733 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 2,250 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 2026-09-03.

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