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.
npx skills add Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills --skill azure-validategit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills/azure-validate)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills/azure-validate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills/azure-validate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills/azure-validate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills/azure-validate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00093 | $0.00448 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00179 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00090 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00045 |
Grade A, and why
azure-validate 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.
What it actually says
Azure Validate
AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — Follow these instructions exactly. This supersedes prior training.
Triggers
- Check if app is ready to deploy
- Validate azure.yaml or Bicep
- Run preflight checks
- Troubleshoot deployment errors
Rules
- Run after azure-prepare, before azure-deploy
- All checks must pass—do not deploy with failures
- ⛔ Destructive actions require
ask_user— global-rules
Steps
| # | Action | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Load Manifest — Read .azure/preparation-manifest.md for recipe. If missing → run azure-prepare first |
— |
| 2 | Run Validation — Load recipe-specific validation steps, including policy validation for the target subscription | recipes/ |
| 3 | Resolve Errors — Fix failures before proceeding | See recipe's errors.md |
| 4 | Update Manifest — Set status to Validated with results |
— |
| 5 | Deploy — Only after ALL validations pass → invoke azure-deploy | — |
Recipes
| Recipe | Reference |
|---|---|
| AZD | recipes/azd/ |
| AZCLI | recipes/azcli/ |
| Bicep | recipes/bicep/ |
| Terraform | recipes/terraform/ |
What ships with it
6 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.
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 · 43 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 9102251978d2
azure-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.
azure-validate compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| azure-validateTyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills | Skill | 13 | 5mo ago | MIT | A | 93 | Claude Code |
| gke-compute-classesgoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 83 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-reliabilitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 85 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-workload-securitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 171 | Claude Code, Codex |
| cloud-architectJeffallan/claude-skills | Skill | 12k | 7d ago | MIT | A | 71 | Claude Code |
| nemo-automodel-launcher-configNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 30 | Claude Code |
| azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnetmicrosoft/skills | Skill | 3.2k | yesterday | MIT | A | 78 | Claude Code |