What is az104-lab-creator?

A tool for creating short, hands-on practice labs for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator exam. Each lab is designed to run in 10–20 minutes and includes setup, exact tasks, checks, expected results, and cleanup.

Use it to create executable Azure administration exercises with prerequisites, validation steps, expected outputs, and resource cleanup.

It turns Azure study into guided exercises that can be verified as they are completed. Cleanup instructions help remove the resources created during practice.

How timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy configures Claude Code and Code

Reuse

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

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy/main/.github/skills/az104-lab-creator/SKILL.md

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 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,203 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00063	$0.01203
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00481
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00241
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00120

Measured 2mo ago against content hash da9588fda170, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

az104-lab-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 2mo 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-lab-creator/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: az104.practice_labs.micro.validated

Description: Create short AZ-104 practice labs (10-20 minutes) that are executable and self-validating. Every lab includes prerequisites, exact tasks, validation steps, expected outputs, and cleanup.

Grounding

Required sources:

Microsoft Learn (primary truth source for architecture and correct configuration; access via the Microsoft Learn MCP server using microsoft_docs_search and microsoft_docs_fetch)
Microsoft Learn code samples (for CLI/PowerShell/Bicep accuracy; access via microsoft_code_sample_search)

Style

Microsoft style:

Use Microsoft instruction formatting conventions for UI labels, commands, and dialog names.
See references/style-guide.md for detailed Microsoft writing style rules.
Bold for clickable UI elements. Input-neutral verbs: select (not click), enter (not type).

Guardrails

Keep the lab within AZ-104 scope (admin tasks, not deep dev).
Prefer lowest-cost resources; include a cost warning if not.
No contractions.
No ambiguous "click around until" steps.
Always include cleanup steps that remove created resources.
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 lab touches identity or governance, double-check every product name against current terminology.

Fictional company randomization (non-negotiable)

Use fictional company names from references/fictional-companies.md for any scenario context in lab titles or descriptions. You MUST randomize the company selection -- do not default to Contoso for every lab. Draw from the full list of 50+ companies.

Timebox guidance

A lab should contain no more than 12 steps total across all tasks. If the lab requires more than 12 steps, it likely exceeds the 20-minute timebox. In that case, split the content into two separate labs, each focused on a narrower objective.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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.

2mo ago First seen · 127 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A da9588fda170

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az104-lab-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository timothywarner-org/az104-cert-buddy (28 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,203 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

Cloud DevOps and cloud Learning and teaching ai-education az-104 azure azure-administrator certification copilot

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