az104-cert-buddy: Skill for Claude Code

.github/skills/az104-item-creator/SKILL.md

az104-item-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,286 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating realistic practice questions for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator exam. The questions follow Microsoft-style scenarios and use current Azure terms without copying the real exam.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate scenario-based AZ-104 questions, test knowledge of Azure administration topics, and create plausible answer choices.
Why use it?
It gives learners exam-like practice grounded in Microsoft Learn content. This helps them prepare for the exam without relying on trick questions or outdated terminology.

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

This is timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on az104-cert-buddy itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything az104-cert-buddy configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,286 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.
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 $0.00072 $0.02286
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01143
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00229

Measured 12d ago against content hash 39e84c1a9b0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

az104-item-creator 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.

.github/skills/az104-item-creator/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: az104.practice_questions.exam_realistic

Description: Generate AZ-104 practice questions that feel like the real exam without copying it. Every item is grounded in current Microsoft Learn content, uses modern Azure terminology, and follows Microsoft-style exam item rules (scenario-first, plausible distractors, no trick wording).

Grounding

Required sources:

  • Microsoft Learn (primary truth source for objectives + features; access via the Microsoft Learn MCP server using microsoft_docs_search and microsoft_docs_fetch)
  • Microsoft Learn code samples (for CLI/PowerShell/SDK accuracy; access via microsoft_code_sample_search)

Study guide:

  • Study guide for Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator (skills outline + objective mapping) [Microsoft Learn]
  • references/az104-objectives.md for the full skills-measured list

Style

Microsoft style:

  • Follow Microsoft sentence-style capitalization and UI-label rules.
  • See references/style-guide.md for detailed Microsoft writing style rules. Key rules for exam items:
    • Sentence-style capitalization everywhere except proper nouns and product names.
    • Bold for UI element names.
    • Input-neutral verbs: select (not click), enter (not type).
    • Imperative mood in procedure steps.
    • Oxford comma in all lists.
    • No contractions.
    • on-premises (never on-premise), cloud-native (hyphenated before a noun).
    • Spell out zero through nine; numerals for 10 or greater.
    • should for recommendations, must for requirements.

Guardrails

Exam integrity:

  • Do not recreate or paraphrase real exam questions.
  • Do not reference braindumps or leaked content.
  • Write original scenarios and original stems every time.

Terminology:

  • Always use current Microsoft product names. Never use retired names such as "Azure AD" (use "Microsoft Entra ID"), "Azure AD Connect" (use "Microsoft Entra Connect"), and so on. See the full rename table in .github/copilot-instructions.md. If a distractor references identity or governance, double-check that every product name is current.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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 · 205 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 39e84c1a9b0d

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az104-item-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,286 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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