Guidance for Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management, a system for giving administrators temporary, approved, and recorded access instead of permanent permissions.

Use it to configure just-in-time access, approval and MFA requirements, activation limits, eligible roles, privileged groups, and recurring access reviews.

It reduces the risk caused by standing administrator access and creates an audit trail for privileged actions.

azure-pim — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by vinayaklatthe

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 vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill azure-pim

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,763 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00184	$0.01763
Opus 5	$0.00092	$0.00881
Sonnet 5	$0.00037	$0.00353
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00176

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1953026c46e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-pim 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.

skills/azure-pim/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

PIM provides just-in-time, time-bound, approval-based, and audited elevation for privileged roles - eliminating standing administrative access and reducing the attack surface for high-value accounts. Requires Entra ID P2.

When to use

Governing privileged access to Entra roles, Azure RBAC roles, and privileged groups. Use this skill for moving permanent assignments to eligible, configuring activation controls, and running recurring access reviews.

Do not use this skill for resource access packages (entra-id-governance) or risk detection (entra-id-protection).

Pick activation controls by role tier

Role tier	Examples	Approval	MFA strength	Max activation duration
Tier 0 - control plane	Global Admin, Privileged Role Admin, Privileged Auth Admin	Required (2 approvers)	Phishing-resistant	1 hour
Tier 0 - Azure	Owner on management group / root subscription	Required	Phishing-resistant	2 hours
Tier 1 - workload admin	Exchange Admin, SharePoint Admin, Intune Admin	Required (1 approver)	Phishing-resistant	4 hours
Tier 1 - Azure	Owner / Contributor on production subscription	Justification + ticket	MFA	4 hours
Tier 2 - operational	Helpdesk, Reports Reader, Security Reader	Justification	MFA	8 hours

Rule of thumb: the two-approver requirement on Global Admin is the single highest- value PIM control. It blocks self-elevation and forces a witness for every tenant-wide change.

Approach

Inventory permanent assignments — Use Get-MgRoleManagementDirectoryRoleAssignment and the Azure portal Assignments view per subscription. Categorise by tier. Target: zero standing assignments outside break-glass. Verify: PIM → Entra roles → Assignments → Active shows only break-glass accounts for Global Admin.
Convert to eligible in waves — Tier 2 first (low blast radius if activation flow breaks), then Tier 1, then Tier 0. Give admins 7 days notice + a walkthrough video. Verify: weekly activation count rises as expected; no admin complaints about lost access.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

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.

11d ago First seen · 115 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A 1953026c46e4

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azure-pim is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills (173 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 1,763 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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