Repository
jonathan-vella/apex agent skills
- skills
- 39
- GitHub stars
- 217
GitHub description: “APEX turns Azure platform engineering requirements into verified, deploy-ready IaC — powered by GitHub Copilot agents, real-time pricing, and built-in compliance.”
- Stars
- 217 (80 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Dec 2025
- Homepage
- apexops.pro
- agentic-ai
- agents
- azure
- azureverifiedmodules
- bicep
- copilot
- github
- iac
- infrastructure-as-code
- terraform
- well-architected-framework
- anthropic
- cluade
- microsoft
- skills
- vscode
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npx skills add jonathan-vella/apexAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in jonathan-vella/apex, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Debug Azure production issues: Container Apps, Functions, App Service, AKS, VMs and messaging, with KQL log analysis. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 2 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Azure Policy discovery: effective assignments (incl. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 3 | UTILITY SKILL — Two-mode context-window management. An agent skill from jonathan-vella/apex. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 4 | UTILITY SKILL — Python diagram generation for Azure architectures, WAF/cost/compliance charts, ERDs, swimlanes, timelines, and wireframes. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 5 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Manual-only discovery and import of existing Azure resources into Terraform management. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 6 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Manual-only audit of Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 / GPT-5.6 prompting guidance and APEX conventions. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 7 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Creates, restructures, and audits GitHub Copilot .agent.md and .prompt.md files with correct frontmatter, handoffs, model policy, context budgets, and validation. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 8 | UTILITY SKILL — Artifact template structures, H2 compliance rules, and documentation styling for agent outputs (Steps 1-7). | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 9 | UTILITY SKILL — Reusable Azure Bicep patterns: hub-spoke, private endpoints, diagnostics, AVM composition. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 10 | UTILITY SKILL — Applies canonical Azure defaults through an IaC workflow covering governance precedence, CAF naming, AVM-first composition, unique suffixes, cost monitoring, VNet planning, and… | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 11 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Execute Azure deployments (azd up, azd deploy, terraform apply) for already-prepared apps with built-in error recovery. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 12 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Read-only reliability assessment for App Service and Azure Functions: zone redundancy, ZRS storage, health probes and multi-region failover. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 13 | UTILITY SKILL — Azure Storage: Blob, File Shares, Queue, Table and Data Lake, including access tiers and lifecycle management. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 14 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Pre-deployment validation for Azure: config, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), permissions, prerequisites. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 15 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Full GitHub contribution lifecycle: branches, conventional commits, issues, PRs, Actions, releases. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 16 | UTILITY SKILL — Reusable Azure Terraform patterns: hub-spoke, private endpoints, diagnostics, AVM-TF modules. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 17 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Write and run Terraform tests (.tftest.hcl). | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 18 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Find the right Azure RBAC role for an identity with least-privilege access; generate CLI, Bicep, and Terraform code to assign it. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 19 | ANALYSIS SKILL — List, find, and visualize Azure resources via Resource Graph or Mermaid. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 20 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Query official Microsoft documentation to understand concepts, find tutorials, and learn how services work. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~966 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 21 | 21.Apex Unslop UTILITY SKILL — Manually polish authorized prose for clarity and concrete language while preserving technical facts and APEX contracts. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 22 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Creates Azure Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with WAF pillar mapping, alternatives, and consequences. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~860 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 23 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Assess and migrate cross-cloud workloads to Azure: assessments and code conversion from AWS, GCP, Heroku, Kubernetes or Spring. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 24 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Azure compliance and security auditing: best practices, Key Vault expiration monitoring, resource validation. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 25 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Recommend Azure VM sizes and VMSS for workload, performance, and budget. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 26 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Query, forecast and optimize Azure costs via cost + utilization analysis. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 27 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Day-0 AKS design advice: Automatic vs Standard, networking, identity, observability, upgrades, node pools, autoscaling and Spot. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 28 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Query and analyze data in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/ADX) using KQL. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~984 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 29 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Prepare Azure apps for deployment (Bicep/Terraform, azure.yaml, Dockerfiles). | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 30 | UTILITY SKILL — Check Azure quota headroom and SKU availability (region, zones, restrictions) for deployment planning; neither proves allocation capacity. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 31 | ANALYSIS SKILL — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 32 | WORKFLOW SKILL — Guides Microsoft Entra ID app registration, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and MSAL integration. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 33 | ANALYSIS SKILL — The agent-first operating principles governing how agents work in this repository. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~927 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 34 | UTILITY SKILL — Shared Bicep/Terraform workflow contracts: planning, codegen cadence, handoffs, deployment strategies and bounded recovery. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 35 | 35.Apex Mermaid UTILITY SKILL — Mermaid diagrams for inline markdown: flowcharts, sequence, Gantt, class, state, ER. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~707 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 36 | UTILITY SKILL — Machine-readable workflow DAG for the multi-step agent pipeline. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 37 | Start or resume an APEX workflow or named step in Agent Host after manual owner selection. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~538 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 38 | Bundle selected custom-agent debug logs locally for manual upload in Agent Host. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~373 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 39 | Stage scoped changes, commit, push, and offer a PR in Agent Host. | jonathan-vella/ | 217 | — | ~357 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in jonathan-vella/apex?
Apex Azure Diagnostics from jonathan-vella/apex ranks first of the 39 skills in jonathan-vella/apex listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 217 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Apex Azure Governance Discovery and Apex Context Management.
Are the skills in jonathan-vella/apex official?
None yet. All 39 skills in jonathan-vella/apex listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from jonathan-vella/apex?
Run npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.