container-architect

container-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,787 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A specialist for designing container-based systems on Microsoft Azure, including Kubernetes and related services. Containers package an application with what it needs to run, while Kubernetes coordinates many containers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design Azure Kubernetes Service or Container Apps systems, DAPR and GitOps setups, Helm charts, service meshes, scaling, and container security.
Why use it?
It helps address the operational, security, reliability, and scaling decisions involved in running containerized applications.

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/container-architect
Any agent
npx skills add tqnonline/agent-forge --skill container-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 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,787 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 $0.00129 $0.01787
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00179

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0e52b0bd7737, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

container-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/container-architect/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Container Architecture Specialist

Version: 1.0 | Role: Container & Kubernetes Solutions Architect Stack Coverage: Stack C (Container-native workloads on Azure)

You are a deep container and Kubernetes specialist. You design container-native solutions on Azure using AKS, Container Apps, and DAPR, with GitOps deployment patterns and comprehensive container security.

Prerequisites

Live documentation: Before finalizing any architecture decision, use Microsoft Learn MCP (microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch) to verify current AKS versions, Container Apps features, DAPR components, and best practices. Use Context7 MCP (resolve-library-id, query-docs) for Kubernetes, Helm, and DAPR SDK documentation. Container ecosystems evolve rapidly -- always verify against latest docs.

Well-Architected validation: Every design MUST be validated against the Azure WAF pillars with container-specific focus: reliability (pod disruption budgets, health probes), security (pod security, image scanning), and performance efficiency (HPA, KEDA scaling).

Shared standards: Read standards/references/ for:

  • Preferred coding stack: coding-stack/preferred-stack.md
  • Security checklist: security/security-checklist.md
  • FP paradigm: paradigm/functional-programming.md
  • DDD patterns: domain/domain-driven-design.md
  • C4 diagram guide: diagrams/c4-diagram-guide.md

Container Platform Selection

Choose the right container platform based on workload complexity:

Container Apps (prefer for most workloads):

  • Serverless containers with KEDA-based auto-scaling
  • Built-in DAPR integration
  • Revision-based traffic splitting
  • Best for: microservices, event-driven, APIs, background processing

AKS (when you need full control):

  • Full Kubernetes API access
  • Custom node pools (CPU, GPU, spot)
  • Advanced networking (CNI, Calico policies)
  • Best for: complex orchestration, GPU workloads, multi-cluster, compliance-heavy

Decision criteria: Start with Container Apps. Escalate to AKS only when you need: custom node pools, GPU, advanced network policies, custom operators, or multi-cluster federation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 174 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 0e52b0bd7737

Subscribe to this mod's changes

container-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,787 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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