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title: "apex"
description: "APEX: Azure platform engineering agents that take a project from requirements through architecture, governance, IaC and deployment, with review gates and tracked progress."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/apex
last-updated: 2026-10-06
---

# apex
APEX: Azure platform engineering agents that take a project from requirements through architecture, governance, IaC and deployment, with review gates and tracked progress.
- Slug: apex
- Publisher: Jonathan Vella
- Repository: https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex-plugin
- Manifest: plugins/apex/plugin.json
- Version: 0.10.3
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 6 (apex-azure-artifacts, apex-azure-defaults, apex-azure-governance-discovery, apex-context-management, apex-golden-principles, apex-workflow-engine)
- MCP servers: 3 (apex, apex-azure-mcp, apex-azure-pricing)
- Stars: 1
- Repository created: 2026-10-02
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-06
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/apex
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## Skills

- apex-azure-artifacts: **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 US…
- apex-azure-defaults: **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", "securi…
- apex-azure-governance-discovery: **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 gove…
- apex-context-management: **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: "conte…
- apex-golden-principles: **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, gover…
- apex-workflow-engine: **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: orchestra…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- apex: transport: stdio; command: node ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/mcp/apex.mjs
- apex-azure-mcp: transport: stdio; command: npx -y @azure/mcp@2.0.5 server start; env: NPM_CONFIG_ALLOW_REMOTE
- apex-azure-pricing: transport: http; url: https://mcp.management.azure.com

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.