Apex Azure Validate

What it does

When your agent uses it

• : post-deploy troubleshooting (apex-azure-diagnostics)
• Executing deploys (apex-azure-deploy)

Example prompts

• “validate my app”
• “check deployment readiness”
• “run preflight checks”
• “/apex-azure-validate”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Run after apex-azure-prepare, before apex-azure-deploy
2. 2All checks must pass—do not deploy with failures
3. 3⛔ Destructive actions require ask_user — global-rules

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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • npm
  • terraform

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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 Validate loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~11k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 597 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~107

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~11k

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

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). 597 words, ~1,801 tokens.

name

apex-azure-validate

description

**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Pre-deployment validation for Azure: config, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), permissions, prerequisites. WHEN: 'validate my app', 'check deployment readiness', 'run preflight checks', 'validate azure.yaml', 'validate Bicep', 'test before deploying', 'validate Azure Functions'. DO NOT USE FOR: post-deploy troubleshooting (apex-azure-diagnostics), executing deploys (apex-azure-deploy).

user-invocable

true

disable-model-invocation

false

argument-hint

project path, environment and validation scope

license

MIT

metadata.author

Microsoft

metadata.version

1.0.0

azd provision --preview                 # AZD recipes
bicep build infra/bicep/{project}/main.bicep && bicep lint infra/bicep/{project}/main.bicep
terraform fmt -check && terraform validate && npm run validate:terraform
npm run validate:iac-security-baseline  # cross-cutting baseline
npm run validate:all                    # full repo validator suite

© 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 14 other files (references) in .github/skills/apex-azure-validate of jonathan-vella/apex.

• SKILL.md
• references/infraops-preflight.md
• references/policy-validation.md
• references/recipes/README.md
• references/recipes/azcli/README.md
• references/recipes/azcli/errors.md
• references/recipes/azd/README.md
• references/recipes/azd/environment.md
• references/recipes/azd/errors.md
• references/recipes/bicep/README.md
• references/recipes/bicep/errors.md
• references/recipes/terraform/README.md
• references/recipes/terraform/errors.md
• references/region-availability.md
• references/role-verification.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b8e5908