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-key-vaultgit 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-key-vault)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-key-vault"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-key-vault/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-key-vault"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-key-vault.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 | $0.00170 | $0.01751 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00085 | $0.00875 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00350 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00175 |
Grade A, and why
azure-key-vault 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 12d 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.
This is a copy
98% identical to azure-key-vault — 22 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Key Vault
Azure Key Vault centrally and securely stores secrets, keys, and certificates, providing RBAC-based access control, network isolation, logging, and lifecycle automation - so applications never embed credentials and crypto material has a managed lifecycle.
When to use
Managing application secrets, encryption keys (including customer-managed keys / BYOK), and TLS certificates. Use this skill to pick standard vs Managed HSM, design access, and plan rotation.
Do not use this skill for CA design (pki-design), Entra app credentials only
(entra-id), or PaaS networking topology (azure-network-security-design).
Pick the vault type and access model
| Requirement | Choice | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Application secrets, TLS certs, software-protected keys | Standard Key Vault | Default; FIPS 140-2 Level 2 |
| Single-tenant HSM with FIPS 140-3 Level 3 keys (CMK, root CA) | Managed HSM | Regulated workloads |
| Per-app, per-environment isolation | One vault per app per environment | Limits blast radius |
| App reading secrets at runtime | Managed identity + RBAC (Key Vault Secrets User) | No secrets in code |
| App Service / Functions secret in config | Key Vault references in app settings | No code change |
| Customer-managed key for Storage / SQL | Key in Key Vault (or HSM) + identity grant | Rotate independently |
Rule of thumb: one vault per app per environment (dev / test / prod). Don't share a vault across apps - a compromise of one app's identity reads all the others' secrets. Use Managed HSM only when the regulator or CMK boundary requires FIPS 140-3 Level 3.
Approach
- Use Azure RBAC for the data plane — Switch the vault to RBAC permission model (not
legacy access policies). Assign least-privilege roles (
Key Vault Secrets User,Key Vault Crypto User) to managed identities, not user accounts. Verify: vaultenableRbacAuthorization = true; no users withKey Vault Administratorin prod.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 123 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 7b3c37905c23
azure-key-vault is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills (173 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 1,751 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to azure-key-vault, differing in 22 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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