Official agent skill

Sdaf Bom Selection

by Azure in Azure/sap-automation

Pick the right SDAF BOM for a target SAP product / release / DB platform / version / kernel / topology.

OfficialMITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Sdaf Bom Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Azure/sap-automation --skill sdaf-bom-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Azure/sap-automation sdaf-bom-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/sap-automation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/sdaf-bom-selection .claude/skills/sdaf-bom-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
sdaf-bom-selection
GitHub stars
145
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
605 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Pick the right SDAF BOM for a target SAP product / release / DB platform / version / kernel / topology.

  • A user says which BOM do I use
  • SKILL.md covers When to invoke, Where BOMs live, BOM_CATALOG must point at the… and The four BOM keys (download…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Product BOM vs component BOM

What it does

Sdaf Bom Selection is an agent skill from Azure/sap-automation, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Pick the right SDAF BOM for a target SAP product / release / DB platform / version / kernel / topology. Explains where BOMs live in the samples repo (SAP/ for whole products, BOM/ for components), decodes the ms, v, and latest suffix conventions, points at the compatibility guardrails (supportedPlatforms, supportedDBVersions, supportedKernels), and reminds the operator that the download flow needs four explicit BOM keys in sap-parameters.yaml. Use when a user says "which BOM do I use", "product BOM vs component…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/bom-selection.md`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering LLM guardrails. The repository describes itself as: This is the repository supporting the SAP deployment automation framework on Azure. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A user says which BOM do I use
  • Product BOM vs component BOM
  • SAP samples BOM catalog
  • How do I pick a BOM for HANA/Oracle/DB2/ASE

Example prompts

  • “which BOM do I use”
  • “product BOM vs component BOM”
  • “SAP samples BOM catalog”
  • “/sdaf-bom-selection”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): shell

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 78835f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • shell

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sdaf Bom Selection loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 206 tokens; SKILL.md has 605 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~206
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Azure/sap-automation at commit 78835f0, republished under its MIT licence (© Azure). 605 words, ~1,599 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sdaf-bom-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
sdaf-bom-selection
description
Pick the right SDAF BOM for a target SAP product / release / DB platform / version / kernel / topology. Explains where BOMs live in the samples repo (`SAP/` for whole products, `BOM/` for components), decodes the `ms`, `v####`, and `latest` suffix conventions, points at the compatibility guardrails (`supportedPlatforms`, `supportedDBVersions`, `supportedKernels`), and reminds the operator that the download flow needs four explicit BOM keys in `sap-parameters.yaml`. Use when a user says "which BOM do I use", "product BOM vs component BOM", "SAP samples BOM catalog", "BOM_CATALOG", "S4/2023 BOM", "HANA BOM", or "how do I pick a BOM for HANA/Oracle/DB2/ASE". Do NOT use to author a new BOM, to acquire media (`sdaf-media-acquisition`), or to troubleshoot a checksum / 404 (`sdaf-media-diagnostics`).
allowed-tools
shell
license
MIT

SDAF BOM Selection

Context-primer. Helps a user choose an existing BOM from the samples catalog. Grounded in docs/local/06-00-software-and-installation.md § Inputs and BOM ownership and the samples-repo BOM docs (sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md).

For an ordered 5-step end-to-end walkthrough (identify target → product vs component BOM → compatibility fields → prefer pinned name → pin samples commit), see references/bom-selection.md; this body carries the topic-by-topic facts.

When to invoke

Trigger on: "pick a BOM", "which BOM", "product BOM vs component BOM", "BOM_CATALOG", "SAP samples", "S4 2023 BOM", "HANA BOM", "Oracle BOM", "DB2 BOM", "compatibility guardrails".

Do NOT trigger on: authoring a new BOM, running download_menu.sh, media 404 / checksum troubleshooting, or install-time BOM failures.

Where BOMs live

Docs (sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md § Understand SAP and BOM; docs/local/06-00-software-and-installation.md § Inputs and BOM ownership):

  • sap-automation-samples/SAP/<name>/<name>.yaml — product BOM (whole product); pick this when the documented flow accepts a single complete definition.
  • sap-automation-samples/BOM/<name>/<name>.yaml — component BOM (app / db / kernel); pick these when the flow supports dynamic assembly driven by the four sap-parameters.yaml keys documented below. Anchor: sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md § Understand SAP and BOM.
  • sap-automation-samples/SAP/archives/ — legacy only; do not use without explicit release guidance.

Filename rule (docs; samples): the directory name and the YAML basename must match exactly, case-sensitive. A rename that breaks the pair breaks selection.

BOM_CATALOG must point at the samples root

docs/local/06-00-software-and-installation.md § Inputs and BOM ownership:

  • Set BOM_CATALOG to the root of a reviewed samples checkout that contains both SAP/ and BOM/.
  • Do not set BOM_CATALOG to an individual BOM directory.
  • download_menu.sh passes this value to Ansible as BOM_directory.

The four BOM keys (download flow)

docs/local/06-00-software-and-installation.md § Inputs and BOM ownership is explicit: the SAP-system-generated sap-parameters.yaml contains bom_base_name, but the wrapper overrides it and requires four keys:

yaml
application_bom_name: <APPLICATION_BOM>
database_bom_name:    <DATABASE_BOM>
sap_kernel_bom_name:  <KERNEL_BOM>
save_bom_as:          <COMBINED_BOM_NAME>
bom_base_name:        <COMBINED_BOM_NAME>

Without the four downloader keys, the wrapper substitutes an empty value and the download fails. Also require bom_base_name to equal save_bom_as; installation reloads bom_base_name and must find the combined BOM written by the downloader. Surface both constraints whenever the operator picks component BOMs.

Compatibility guardrails

BOM YAML fields to check before picking (documented in sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md § Select and run a BOM / § Review before execution; the same fields are present in every shipped BOM at sap-automation-samples/{SAP,BOM}/<name>/<name>.yaml — open the current candidate rather than a versioned example):

  • supportedPlatforms
  • supportedDBVersions
  • supportedKernels
  • product_ids (role-to-SAP-product-ID map)
  • materials.dependencies (prerequisite BOMs)

For the current allowed values on any of these keys, read the target BOM YAML itself and the samples-repo doc anchor above — those own the strings. Do not select a BOM whose guardrails do not match the target topology.

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Suffix decoding

sap-automation-samples/SAP/readme.md § BOM Name / BOM File and § 02-00-bom-samples.md § Select and run a BOM:

  • ms suffix — Microsoft-supplied BOM.
  • v#### suffix — serial version number.
  • latest in a name — moving target; the docs warn that names containing latest can change later. Prefer a pinned v#### name, and pin the samples-repo checkout commit, so a BOM selected today matches the media downloaded tomorrow (sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md § Select and run a BOM).

Hand-off

  • To validate a BOM: check_bom.sh (runs yamllint, ansible-lint, and check_bom.yml). Referenced in sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md § Validate. BOM authoring is outside the shipped 18-skill hub.
  • To acquire media once a BOM is selected: route to sdaf-media-acquisition.
  • To diagnose archive / checksum / extractor failures after selection: route to sdaf-media-diagnostics.
  • To route BOM failures during a run: docs/local/troubleshooting.md § BOM files are not found → confirm BOM_CATALOG root, names, and files.

Hard rules

  • Documented behaviour only (D19). If asked about air-gapped / offline media, an undocumented compatibility mapping, or the meaning of XBOM, say docs are silent and stop.
  • Do not add credentials or downloaded media to the samples repo (sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md § Before you begin).
  • Do not point BOM_CATALOG at a single BOM directory.

See also

  • sdaf-sap-system (its generated sap-parameters.yaml is where the four BOM keys are set).
  • sdaf-workspace-and-tfvars (where the samples checkout is separate from the SDAF checkout).
  • sap-automation-samples/docs/02-00-bom-samples.md, docs/local/06-00-software-and-installation.md.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/sdaf-bom-selection of Azure/sap-automation.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/bom-selection.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 78835f0

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Questions about Sdaf Bom Selection

What does Sdaf Bom Selection do?

Pick the right SDAF BOM for a target SAP product / release / DB platform / version / kernel / topology. Sdaf Bom Selection is an agent skill from Azure/sap-automation, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Pick the right SDAF BOM for a target SAP product / release / DB platform / version / kernel / topology.

When should I use Sdaf Bom Selection?

Sdaf Bom Selection fits situations like: A user says which BOM do I use; product BOM vs component BOM; SAP samples BOM catalog; how do I pick a BOM for HANA/Oracle/DB2/ASE.

How do I install Sdaf Bom Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Azure/sap-automation --skill sdaf-bom-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/sdaf-bom-selection in Azure/sap-automation) into .claude/skills/sdaf-bom-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sdaf Bom Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Azure/sap-automation --skill sdaf-bom-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/sdaf-bom-selection in Azure/sap-automation) into .agents/skills/sdaf-bom-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sdaf Bom Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Azure/sap-automation --skill sdaf-bom-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sdaf-bom-selection, .gemini/skills/sdaf-bom-selection, .github/skills/sdaf-bom-selection and .opencode/skills/sdaf-bom-selection in your project.

What does Sdaf Bom Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sdaf Bom Selection is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: shell.

Does Sdaf Bom Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sdaf Bom Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Sdaf Bom Selection use?

Sdaf Bom Selection is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Sdaf Bom Selection use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 449 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Sdaf Bom Selection?

Azure (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in Azure/sap-automation, which has 145 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: Azure/sap-automation on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.