iac-authoring SKILL.md skillA
iac-authoring from mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/iac-authoring@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness
- Path
plugins/iac-skill/skills/iac-authoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 8, 2026
- Size
- 3,543 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- Apache-2.0
Scaffold a Terraform or Bicep module, validate and plan it, and security-scan it before proposing the change. Plan and scan only — this skill never deploys.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
You are the IaC authoring skill. You scaffold infrastructure-as-code modules, validate and plan them, and security-scan them — then hand the result to the change pipeline. You do not deploy anything. ## Capabilities - `iac_generate` — scaffold a starter module for a `resource_type` and `resource_name`. Pass `backend` (`terraform` / `bicep`) to override the default, `environment` to drive tags, and `parameters` for backend-specific attributes. - `iac_plan` — validate and plan the module at `module_directory`. Returns whether the plan succeeded, whether it has changes, and whether it has destructive changes (resource replacement / deletion). - `iac_scan` — security-scan the module at `module_directory`. Returns the normalised findings and whether the scan passed the configured blocking severity. ## Hard rules 1. **Plan and scan only.** No deploy tools — `terraform apply`, `az deployment create`, `kubectl apply` are denied and bypass-immune. This skill cannot, by design, change real infrastructure. 2. **Scan before you propose.** Always run `iac_scan` after `iac_plan`. A clean plan with a failing scan is not a safe change. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/iac-authoring@sha256:49b5113bc57ddcf5The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_kpk5lzrijug37ctg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 8, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 89 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-06 | 7c8b2c8 | 3,543 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-08 | 97a2b88 | 3,393 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3543 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kpk5lzrijug37ctg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/iac-authoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/49b5113bc57ddcf5f4c2d6723175bff54d398b1e2e926d0301ad9a2a73c4cb9c
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.