well-architected-review

well-architected-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ricmmartins/azure-sre-agent-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist-based review of Azure cloud resources against Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework, which covers reliability, security, cost, operations, and performance. It produces scores and prioritized recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check availability design, backups, disaster recovery, and other Azure architecture practices across the framework's five areas.
Why use it?
It helps reveal architecture risks and missing safeguards before a launch, audit, or regular health check.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to check availability design, backups, disaster recovery, and other Azure architecture practices across the framework's five areas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ricmmartins/azure-sre-agent-skills/01-well-architected-review
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 ricmmartins/azure-sre-agent-skills --skill 01-well-architected-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ricmmartins/azure-sre-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,531 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original 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 $0.00055 $0.02531
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01265
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00253

Measured 12d ago against content hash a5468ea76267, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

well-architected-review 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 12d 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/01-well-architected-review/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Well-Architected Review

Purpose

Perform a structured assessment of Azure resources against the five pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. Produce a scored report with prioritized recommendations.

When to use this skill

  • User asks "are we following best practices?"
  • User asks for a WAF or Well-Architected review
  • User wants to assess architecture quality before a launch or audit
  • Periodic (quarterly) architecture health check

Pillars and checks

1. Reliability

Run the following checks and report findings:

  1. Availability design: Check if critical workloads use availability zones or availability sets
    az vm list --query "[].{name:name, zones:zones, availabilitySet:availabilitySet.id}" -o table
    az appservice plan list --query "[].{name:name, zoneRedundant:zoneRedundant, sku:sku.name}" -o table
    
  2. Backup coverage: Verify Recovery Services vaults and backup policies exist for VMs, databases, and file shares
    az backup vault list -o table
    
    Then for each vault:
    az backup item list --vault-name <vault> --resource-group <rg> --backup-management-type AzureIaasVM -o table
    
  3. Disaster recovery: Check for paired regions, ASR replication, or geo-redundant storage
  4. Health probes: Verify App Service health checks, load balancer probes, and Container Apps health endpoints
  5. Auto-healing: Check if App Service auto-heal rules or AKS pod disruption budgets are configured

2. Security

  1. Identity: Check for managed identities vs. stored credentials
    az webapp identity show --name <app> --resource-group <rg>
    az ad app list --query "[].{name:displayName, passwordCredentials:passwordCredentials}" -o table
    
  2. Network isolation: Check for private endpoints, NSGs, and service endpoints
    az network private-endpoint list -o table
    az network nsg list -o table
    
  3. Encryption: Verify encryption at rest (storage, databases) and in transit (TLS)
  4. Key management: Check Key Vault usage and key/secret expiration dates
    az keyvault list -o table
    az keyvault secret list --vault-name <vault> --query "[].{name:name, expires:attributes.expires}" -o table
    
  5. Defender for Cloud: Check Secure Score and outstanding recommendations

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 236 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A a5468ea76267

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well-architected-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ricmmartins/azure-sre-agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,531 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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