{"slug":"azure-landing-zone-architect","title":"azure-landing-zone-architect","summary":"Use this skill for Azure landing-zone design, management-group and subscription hierarchy reviews, platform-versus-application boundary decisions, or multi-subscription Azure platform architecture critiques that span governance, identity, networking, security, and operations.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:50:59.749586Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: azure-landing-zone-architect\ndescription: Use this skill for Azure landing-zone design, management-group and subscription hierarchy reviews, platform-versus-application boundary decisions, or multi-subscription Azure platform architecture critiques that span governance, identity, networking, security, and operations.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: github: VincentChuWaiChow\nversion: 0.1.3\nupdated: \"2026-06-05\"\ncategory: compliance</h2>\n<h1>Azure Landing Zone Architect</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Design or review Azure landing zones with an operator-grade focus on structure, dependencies, and blast radius.</p>\n<p>This skill is for platform decisions that cut across:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>management groups,</li>\n<li>subscriptions,</li>\n<li>platform versus application landing zones,</li>\n<li>identity and access boundaries,</li>\n<li>network topology and shared services,</li>\n<li>governance and policy inheritance,</li>\n<li>security baselines,</li>\n<li>management, monitoring, backup, and recovery posture.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>a greenfield Azure landing-zone design,</li>\n<li>a brownfield hierarchy or subscription-placement critique,</li>\n<li>shared-services or platform-subscription layout advice,</li>\n<li>a hub-spoke or alternative connectivity decision in landing-zone context,</li>\n<li>a review of whether governance, security, and operations dependencies were missed,</li>\n<li>clarification of platform-team versus application-team ownership boundaries.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Do not use this skill for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>narrow RBAC assignment questions with no platform-design component,</li>\n<li>single-service implementation tutorials,</li>\n<li>writing production Bicep or Terraform on first pass,</li>\n<li>workload-only design questions that do not affect the platform operating model.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Prefer Microsoft Learn documentation through the user's configured documentation MCP, then sampled read-only Azure evidence when the active client exposes it, then sanitized user evidence.</li>\n<li>Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried or shown, say so.</li>\n<li>Challenge broad access, broad scope, destructive changes, and hand-wavy production claims.</li>\n<li>Keep the answer scoped, reversible, least-privilege, and explicit about blockers or unknowns.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/landing-zone-architecture-operations.md\">Azure Landing Zone Architecture Operations</a> — use for current service behavior, common failure modes, hard design rules, verification targets, and push-back conditions.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/mcp-and-evidence.md\">MCP and evidence path</a> — use when choosing live Azure evidence, confirming Microsoft MCP capability, or switching to documentation mode.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/safety-checklist.md\">Safety checklist</a> — use for evidence labels, risk gates, mutation boundaries, approval rules, credential boundaries, and current-state caveats.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Workflow and output contract</a> — use when executing the full review, applying stress checks, or formatting the final answer.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/official-sources.md\">Official sources</a> — use when you need the detailed Microsoft documentation list or source notes.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the scoped target and evidence level,</li>\n<li>the main risks or control gaps,</li>\n<li>the safest next actions,</li>\n<li>the assumptions or blockers that prevent stronger conclusions.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1712,"isText":true},{"path":"references/landing-zone-architecture-operations.md","sizeBytes":5445,"isText":true},{"path":"references/mcp-and-evidence.md","sizeBytes":1546,"isText":true},{"path":"references/official-sources.md","sizeBytes":2359,"isText":true},{"path":"references/safety-checklist.md","sizeBytes":1754,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":1620,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":3321,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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