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ANALYSIS SKILL — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis.
Install Apex Azure Upgrade
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-azure-upgrade --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade .claude/skills/apex-azure-upgrade && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "apex-azure-upgrade" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade into .claude/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-azure-upgrade", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgradeType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-azure-upgrade --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade .agents/skills/apex-azure-upgrade && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-azure-upgrade" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade into .agents/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-azure-upgrade", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-azure-upgrade --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade .cursor/skills/apex-azure-upgrade && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "apex-azure-upgrade" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade into .cursor/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-azure-upgrade", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git --path .github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-azure-upgrade --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade .gemini/skills/apex-azure-upgrade && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-azure-upgrade" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade into .gemini/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-azure-upgrade", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-azure-upgradeInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade .github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-azure-upgrade" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade into .github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-azure-upgrade", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jonathan-vella/apex apex-azure-upgrade --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade .opencode/skills/apex-azure-upgrade && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "apex-azure-upgrade" agent skill from https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex/tree/main/.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade into .opencode/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "apex-azure-upgrade", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
apex-azure-upgrade- GitHub stars
- 217
- Token cost
- ~1.2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 351 words
- Files
- 5 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 39
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
ANALYSIS SKILL — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis.
- Works in 7 steps: Follow the global rules; this skill… → Assess before recommending any change.… → Confirm the source and target plan or… → …
- : cross-cloud migration (apex-azure-cloud-migrate)
- SKILL.md covers Upgrade Scenarios, Rules, MCP Tools and Steps, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Apex Azure Upgrade is an agent skill from jonathan-vella/apex. ANALYSIS SKILL — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis. WHEN: "upgrade Consumption to Flex", "Flex Consumption readiness", "Linux Consumption retirement", "migrate Redis to AMR", "Redis retirement". DO NOT USE FOR: cross-cloud migration (apex-azure-cloud-migrate), deploying (07b/07t).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including reference files (for example `references/global-rules.md`, `references/services/functions/assessment.md` and `references/services/functions/consumption-to-flex.md`).
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud architecture. It works with Microsoft Azure, Redis, Linux and Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: APEX turns Azure platform engineering requirements into verified, deploy-ready IaC — powered by GitHub Copilot agents, real-time pricing, and built-in compliance. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- : cross-cloud migration (apex-azure-cloud-migrate)
- Deploying (07b/07t)
Example prompts
- “upgrade Consumption to Flex”
- “Flex Consumption readiness”
- “Linux Consumption retirement”
- “/apex-azure-upgrade”
Workflow steps
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Follow the global rules; this skill never performs destructive actions.
- Assess before recommending any change. Every assessment command is read-only.
- Confirm the source and target plan or SKU with the user. 03-Architect records target SKUs in sku-manifest.json.
- Never plan to stop, delete or reconfigure the original resource without explicit approval; cutover and cleanup
- Inventory app setting names only; never copy values.
- Price the target only through cost-estimate-subagent.
- Take retirement dates from Microsoft Learn and cite the page.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b8e5908. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
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
Apex Azure Upgrade loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 351 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 jonathan-vella/apex at commit b8e5908, republished under its MIT licence (© jonathan-vella). 351 words, ~1,162 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/apex-azure-upgrade/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- apex-azure-upgrade
- description
- **ANALYSIS SKILL** — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis. WHEN: "upgrade Consumption to Flex", "Flex Consumption readiness", "Linux Consumption retirement", "migrate Redis to AMR", "Redis retirement". DO NOT USE FOR: cross-cloud migration (apex-azure-cloud-migrate), deploying (07b/07t).
- user-invocable
- true
- disable-model-invocation
- false
- argument-hint
- existing app or cache, current plan or SKU, and target
- license
- MIT
- metadata.author
- Microsoft
- metadata.version
- 1.2.1
Azure Upgrade Assessment
Adapted from upstream azure-upgrade. This skill assesses moving an existing
Azure workload to another plan, tier or service within Azure, and maps the
result to IaC targets. It never creates, stops or deletes resources: the new
resources ship through the APEX workflow (03-Architect decision, 05-IaC Planner,
06b/06t code, 07b/07t deployment).
The upstream automation scripts, progress file and Java SDK modernization flow are not imported.
Upgrade Scenarios
| Source | Target | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Functions Consumption (Y1), Linux or Windows | Flex Consumption (FC1) | consumption-to-flex.md |
| Azure Cache for Redis Basic, Standard, Premium | Azure Managed Redis | redis-to-amr.md |
| Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise, Enterprise Flash | Azure Managed Redis | redis-to-amr.md |
No matching scenario? Research the path with mcp_azure-mcp_documentation and
mcp_azure-mcp_get_azure_bestpractices, and cite Microsoft Learn.
Rules
- Follow the global rules; this skill never performs destructive actions.
- Assess before recommending any change. Every assessment command is read-only.
- Confirm the source and target plan or SKU with the user. 03-Architect records target SKUs in
sku-manifest.json. - Never plan to stop, delete or reconfigure the original resource without explicit approval; cutover and cleanup are separate approved changes.
- Inventory app setting names only; never copy values.
- Price the target only through
cost-estimate-subagent. - Take retirement dates from Microsoft Learn and cite the page.
Show full SKILL.md (144 more words)Show less
MCP Tools
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
mcp_azure-mcp_get_azure_bestpractices | Best practices for the target service |
mcp_azure-mcp_documentation | Microsoft Learn lookups for upgrade scenarios |
mcp_azure-mcp_functionapp | Function App details |
mcp_azure-mcp_appservice | App Service plan details |
mcp_azure-mcp_redis | Azure Cache for Redis and AMR resource details |
Steps
- Identify — Determine the source and target plans or SKUs and confirm them with the user.
- Assess — Load the scenario reference. For Functions, write the report defined in
assessment.md to
agent-output/{project}/upgrade-assessment-report.md. - Map — Record the IaC target mapping from the scenario reference for 05-IaC Planner.
- Hand off — 03-Architect records the decision; 05-IaC Planner plans new resources (no in-place conversion); the deploy agents run the cutover with the rollback steps documented first.
Reference Index
| Reference | When to Load |
|---|---|
references/global-rules.md | Every upgrade assessment |
references/services/functions/assessment.md | Functions plan upgrade assessment report |
references/services/functions/consumption-to-flex.md | Consumption to Flex Consumption checks and IaC mapping |
references/services/redis/redis-to-amr.md | Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis |
© jonathan-vella, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in .github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade of jonathan-vella/apex.
- SKILL.md
- references/global-rules.md
- references/services/functions/assessment.md
- references/services/functions/consumption-to-flex.md
- references/services/redis/redis-to-amr.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit b8e5908
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What does Apex Azure Upgrade do?
ANALYSIS SKILL — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis. Apex Azure Upgrade is an agent skill from jonathan-vella/apex. ANALYSIS SKILL — Assess in-Azure upgrades of existing workloads: Functions Consumption to Flex Consumption, and Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Managed Redis.
When should I use Apex Azure Upgrade?
Apex Azure Upgrade fits situations like: : cross-cloud migration (apex-azure-cloud-migrate); deploying (07b/07t).
How do I install Apex Azure Upgrade in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade in jonathan-vella/apex) into .claude/skills/apex-azure-upgrade in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Apex Azure Upgrade in Codex?
Run `npx skills add jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade in jonathan-vella/apex) into .agents/skills/apex-azure-upgrade in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Apex Azure Upgrade 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 jonathan-vella/apex --skill apex-azure-upgrade -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/apex-azure-upgrade, .gemini/skills/apex-azure-upgrade, .github/skills/apex-azure-upgrade and .opencode/skills/apex-azure-upgrade in your project.
What does Apex Azure Upgrade need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Apex Azure Upgrade is instructions for the agent only.
Does Apex Azure Upgrade 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 Apex Azure Upgrade 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 Apex Azure Upgrade use?
Apex Azure Upgrade 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 Apex Azure Upgrade use?
About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 5.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Apex Azure Upgrade?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Apex Azure Upgrade: Azv Diagram Azure Sync (Azure/AZVerify, 101 stars), Azv Diagram Azure Sync Deep (Azure/AZVerify, 101 stars), Heroku To AWS (aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws, 2.8k stars) and Azure Upgrade (microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure, 255 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Apex Azure Upgrade?
jonathan-vella (a GitHub user) maintains it in jonathan-vella/apex, which has 217 GitHub stars. The repository holds 39 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: jonathan-vella/apex on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.