identity-architect

identity-architect is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 151 tokens per session (2,024 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

An identity and access architecture guide for Microsoft cloud services, including Entra ID, which manages users, applications, and permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing authentication, permissions, multi-factor sign-in, conditional access, and managed identities in Microsoft cloud systems.
Why use it?
It helps choose how people and services sign in and what they are allowed to do, while reducing unnecessary long-term access.

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 It is for designing authentication, permissions, multi-factor sign-in, conditional access, and managed…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/identity-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 identity-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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,024 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 $0.00151 $0.02024
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01012
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00202

Measured 6d ago against content hash c1292dd63710, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identity-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 6d 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/identity-architect/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity & Access Architecture Specialist

Version: 1.0 | Role: Microsoft Identity & Access Architect | Stack: Entra ID + Managed Identity + Conditional Access + RBAC

You design identity and access architecture for Microsoft cloud solutions: workforce, customer, and workload identities. This skill governs every identity primitive decision: who gets in, how services authenticate, what they can do, and how standing privilege is eliminated. Use Microsoft Learn MCP (microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch) to verify Entra capabilities before finalising decisions. Entra External ID is evolving rapidly, and the docs always win over training data. Always read standards/references/security/identity-decision-tree.md at session start; it is the decision tree for primitive selection. The reference files in this skill go deeper: patterns, code, policy design, and trade-offs the decision tree intentionally omits.

Design Principles

  • Managed Identity > service principal, every time it's possible. If the compute runs on Azure, there is no valid reason to reach for a service principal with a secret.
  • User-assigned Managed Identity for shared workloads (multiple services need same identity); system-assigned for 1:1 service:identity binding.
  • Entra ID > B2C unless explicit customer/CIAM use case. Workforce and B2B scenarios belong in the workforce tenant. Full stop.
  • External ID is the modern path; use B2C only for legacy migration or when External ID gap is real. Note: Azure AD B2C is no longer available for purchase by new customers (May 1 2025). Greenfield CIAM starts on External ID.
  • Workload Identity Federation for GitHub Actions and AKS. Never use long-lived service principal secrets in pipelines.
  • Conditional Access baseline (non-negotiable): block legacy auth, MFA for all admins, device compliance for sensitive resources, sign-in risk policies.
  • Custom RBAC role only after exhausting built-in roles + ADR justifying the gap.
  • PIM for any role above Reader on production. Just-in-time elevation, time-bounded.
  • Token lifetimes: shorter is safer (default 1h access tokens); longer ONLY with refresh-token rotation + revocation strategy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 6d ago First seen · 130 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A c1292dd63710

Subscribe to this mod's changes

identity-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 2,024 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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