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 vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill azure-arcgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-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/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-arc)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-arc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-arc/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/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-arc"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-arc.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 | $0.00159 | $0.01735 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00079 | $0.00868 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00347 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00173 |
Grade A, and why
azure-arc 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Arc
Azure Arc projects on-premises, multicloud, and edge resources into Azure Resource Manager so they can be governed, secured, and managed with the same control plane as Azure-native resources, extending Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Azure Monitor to hybrid estates.
When to use
Bringing non-Azure servers, Kubernetes clusters, and data services under consistent Azure governance and security. Use this skill when you need one pane of glass and policy plane across hybrid / multicloud machines.
Do not use this skill for Azure-native VMs (use ARM directly), Intune-managed endpoints
(intune-device-mgmt), or Azure Stack HCI deployment.
Pick the Arc capability by resource type
| Resource type | Arc service | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| On-prem / AWS / GCP server | Arc-enabled servers | Defender for Cloud, Policy, Update Manager, Monitor, RBAC |
| Non-AKS Kubernetes (on-prem, EKS, GKE) | Arc-enabled Kubernetes | GitOps via Flux, Policy, Monitor, Defender for Containers |
| SQL Server on-prem / other cloud | Arc-enabled SQL Server | Inventory, best-practice assessment, Defender |
| PostgreSQL / SQL MI at edge | Arc-enabled data services | Managed PaaS-like experience at edge |
| Hybrid app platform (containerised) | Arc-enabled App Services / Functions | PaaS runtime on Arc-enabled K8s |
Rule of thumb: start with Arc-enabled servers for hybrid posture - it's the highest-value, lowest-friction step. The Connected Machine agent gives you Defender for Cloud and Azure Policy across the hybrid estate for the price of an outbound HTTPS connection.
Approach
- Plan the onboarding scope and identity — Decide which subscriptions / resource groups
own the Arc resources. Define the target resource group per region / per business unit.
Pre-create service principals if onboarding at scale via script.
Verify: target RG exists with the
Azure Connected Machine Onboardingrole assigned to the onboarding identity.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 121 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A df2f0ef32c57
azure-arc is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills (173 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 1,735 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 2026-08-30.
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