azure-well-architected

azure-well-architected is a skill for Claude Code from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (6,594 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

A guide to the Azure Well-Architected Framework, a set of principles and review questions for designing reliable cloud workloads. It covers design reviews, service choices, trade-offs, regions, and availability zones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architectures, select Azure regions and availability zones, and assess workload designs against established criteria.
Why use it?
It helps expose design risks before an Azure workload is built or changed. It provides a structured way to compare options for AI, high-performance computing, SaaS, and virtual desktop workloads.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 199 skills shipped together , and of azure-agent-skills

Good fit Use it to review architectures, select Azure regions and availability zones, and assess workload designs against established criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-well-architected
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 199 skills.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,594 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
  • Socket pass 6 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 6 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00090 $0.06594
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.02638
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00659

Measured today against content hash b7c783a0ab63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-well-architected 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 today.

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-well-architected/SKILL.md · 237 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.

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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.

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  2. 14d ago Changed · +1 lines · +3 tokens per session 4d0a1e39c3d9
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  6. 1mo ago First seen · 235 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 8f6415b8e90a

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azure-well-architected is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (787 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 6,594 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-06.

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