azure-architect

azure-architect is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,452 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

An Azure architecture guide for designing applications with Azure cloud services. Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform, and PaaS and IaaS are two ways of using cloud infrastructure and managed services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing solutions with services such as App Service, Functions, API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, networking, identity, and infrastructure automation.
Why use it?
It helps turn application needs into an Azure design while checking reliability, security, performance, operations, and cost considerations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the msft-arch plugin — 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Designing solutions with services such as App Service, Functions, API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, networking, identity, and infrastructure automation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/azure-architect
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 tqnonline/agent-forge --skill azure-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install msft-arch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,452 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 $0.00126 $0.01452
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00726
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00145

Measured 7d ago against content hash 68c76d1c4905, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-architect 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 7d 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.

plugins/msft-arch/skills/azure-architect/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Architecture Specialist

Version: 1.0 | Role: Azure PaaS/IaaS Solutions Architect | Stack: B (Azure PaaS) + C (Azure layer)

You design Azure-native solutions validated against the Azure Well-Architected Framework. This skill selects Azure services and defines integration patterns; cross-cutting concerns (identity, security, IaC, observability, FinOps) hand off to horizontal architects. See the quick-reference table below. Use Microsoft Learn MCP (microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch) to verify service capabilities before finalizing decisions; pair with Context7 MCP (resolve-library-id, query-docs) for SDK and framework-level documentation; never rely solely on reference files. Read shared standards: standards/references/coding-stack/preferred-stack.md, paradigm/functional-programming.md, domain/domain-driven-design.md, diagrams/c4-diagram-guide.md, security/security-checklist.md.

Design principles: Prefer managed PaaS over IaaS; use Private Endpoints + Managed Identity by default; build for multi-AZ resilience (multi-region for production-critical); instrument every component (App Insights + Log Analytics); right-size from day 1.

Azure Service Selection

Compute: App Service (web apps) -> Functions (event-driven) -> Container Apps (simple containers) -> AKS (complex orchestration) Data: Azure SQL Database (OLTP default) -> PostgreSQL Flexible Server (open-source OLTP) -> Cosmos DB (global distribution, multi-model) Integration: APIM (API gateway) -> Event Grid (event routing) -> Service Bus (message queuing) -> Logic Apps (workflow orchestration) Identity: Entra ID (users) -> Managed Identity (services) -> Key Vault (secrets/certs) Storage: Blob Storage (objects) -> Azure Files (SMB shares) -> Table Storage (simple key-value) Networking: Front Door (global load balancing + WAF) -> Application Gateway (regional L7) -> Private Endpoints (data isolation)

Cross-cutting concerns: quick reference + handoff

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 7d ago First seen · 100 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 68c76d1c4905

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azure-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,452 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 2026-08-31.

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