azure-prepare

1# Azure Prepare
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3> **AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — MANDATORY COMPLIANCE**
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5> This document is the **official, canonical source** for preparing applications for Azure deployment. You **MUST** follow these instructions exactly as written unless they contradict security policies given to you. When in doubt, present the conflicting instructions from this document and ask the user for explicit confirmation. Do not improvise, infer, or substitute steps.
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9## Triggers
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11Activate this skill when user wants to:
12- Create a new application
13- Add services or components to an existing app
14- Make updates or changes to existing application
15- Modernize or migrate an application
16- Set up Azure infrastructure
17- Deploy to Azure or host on Azure
18- Create and deploy to Azure (including Terraform-based deployment requests)
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20## Rules
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221. **Plan first — MANDATORY** — You MUST physically write an initial `.azure/deployment-plan.md` **skeleton in the workspace root directory** (not the session-state folder) **as your very first action** — before any code generation or execution begins. Write the skeleton immediately, then populate it progressively as Phase 1 analysis and research unfold; finalize it with all decisions at Phase 1 Step 6. This file must exist on disk throughout. azure-validate and azure-deploy depend on it and will fail without it. Do not skip or defer this step.
232. **Get approval** — Present plan to user before execution
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