jonathan-vella/apex
APEX: Azure platform engineering agents that take a project from requirements through architecture, governance, IaC and deployment, with review gates and tracked progress.
**UTILITY SKILL** — Artifact template structures, H2 compliance rules, and documentation styling for agent outputs (Steps 1-7). WHEN: "generate artifact", "check H2 structure", "artifact template", "step 7 as-built". USE FOR: generating any agent artifact, checking H2 structure compliance. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure resource configuration (use apex-azure-defaults), Bicep/Terraform patterns (use apex-azure-bicep-patterns or apex-terraform-patterns).
**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 lifecycle checks. WHEN: "Azure naming convention", "CAF naming", "resource tags", "AVM module", "security baseline", "region default". DO NOT USE FOR: artifact templates or pricing lookups.
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Azure Policy discovery: effective assignments (incl. MG-inherited), definitions/exemptions, effect classification, emits governance-constraints JSON. WHEN: 'Azure policy discovery', 'effective policy assignments', 'governance constraints', '04g-Governance Phase 1', 'refresh governance JSON'. DO NOT USE FOR: artifact writing, architecture mapping.
**UTILITY SKILL** — Two-mode context-window management. RUNTIME: artifact compression (full/summarized/minimal) used by orchestrator and codegen agents. AUDIT: post-mortem analysis of Copilot debug logs (token profiling, redundancy + hand-off gap detection) used by 11-Context Optimizer. WHEN: "context optimization", "token budget", "runtime compression", "log parsing". DO NOT USE FOR: infra, IaC code, deployments.
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — The agent-first operating principles governing how agents work in this repository. WHEN: "golden principles", "agent behavior rules", "operating philosophy", "principle lookup", "governance invariants". USE FOR: agent behavior rules, operating philosophy, principle lookup, governance invariants. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure infrastructure, code generation, troubleshooting, diagram creation.
**UTILITY SKILL** — Machine-readable workflow DAG for the multi-step agent pipeline. Defines node types, edge conditions, gates, and fan-out patterns. WHEN: "orchestrator step routing", "resume from graph", "workflow validation", "workflow DAG", "workflow gate", "fan-out pattern". USE FOR: orchestrator step routing, resume-from-graph, workflow validation. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure infrastructure, code generation, troubleshooting.