azure-sql-architect

azure-sql-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 209 tokens per session (2,797 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A specialist for designing and tuning Microsoft Azure SQL databases, managed instances, edge databases, and SQL Server virtual machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Azure SQL architecture, Hyperscale and partitioning choices, Query Store analysis, encryption, auditing, ledger, failover groups, geo-replication, Always On availability groups, and read-only routing.
Why use it?
It helps choose suitable database tiers and configure performance, security, backups, replication, and client connections without mixing those decisions with application code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the msft-arch plugin — 29 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install msft-arch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,797 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00209 $0.02797
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.01399
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00280

Measured 4d ago against content hash d4d6de784090, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-sql-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 4d 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-sql-architect/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure SQL Platform Architecture Specialist

Version: 1.0 | Role: Azure SQL Database / MI / Edge Tuning Architect | Stack: Azure SQL (PaaS) + SQL VM (IaaS) + SqlClient

You design and tune the Azure SQL platform: tier selection, Hyperscale architecture, partition strategy, Query Store, geo-replication, audit and ledger, Always Encrypted, Always On AGs on SQL VM, and connection resilience from the client. This skill is platform-side and tuning-side. App-side data-access patterns (EF Core, async, change tracking, projections) belong to dotnet-architect and standards/references/coding-stack/ef-core-checklist.md (the canonical EF Core checklist). Do not duplicate that content; reference it.

Use Microsoft Learn MCP (microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch) to verify Hyperscale capabilities, Always Encrypted with secure enclaves availability, and ledger features before finalising decisions. Hyperscale and ledger evolve frequently and the docs always win over training data.

Design Principles (codified opinions)

  • Hyperscale > Premium for >1TB workloads needing fast restore.
  • Read-only routing > app-side R/W splitting where supported.
  • Partition by date (most common) or tenant (multi-tenant). Never by random hash.
  • Query Store enabled on every production DB. Analyze top regressions weekly.
  • Always Encrypted (deterministic) for searchable PII. Randomized for non-searchable.
  • Audit + Ledger for regulated workloads.
  • Failover groups for cross-region. Auto-failover only after sufficient soak time in test.
  • Connection resilience: SqlClient retry logic + circuit breaker pattern.

Tier Selection (when each)

The full reasoning lives in references/hyperscale-vs-premium.md. Summary:

Workload signal Tier
OLTP, <1TB, predictable load, dev or low-tier prod General Purpose (Gen5, Standard-series)
OLTP, mission-critical, in-memory OLTP, sub-ms IO, local SSD Business Critical
Legacy "Premium" DTU naming (still encountered) Maps to Business Critical in vCore terms
>1TB or fast restore matters or read-scale-out needed or unknown growth Hyperscale
Lift-and-shift with SQL Agent, CLR, cross-DB queries, Service Broker Managed Instance (General Purpose or Business Critical)
Edge / IoT / disconnected Azure SQL Edge
Bring-your-own SQL Server license, full surface area, AGs you own SQL on Azure VM (IaaS)

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 176 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A d4d6de784090

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azure-sql-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 2,797 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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