count-registry
Provides canonical entity counts from count-manifest.json. Use when agents need to reference how many agents, skills, instructions, or validators exist. Prevents hard-coded counts. WHEN: agent count, skill count, how many agents, how many skills, entity inventory, project statistics.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathan-vella/apex /tmp/count-registry && cp -r /tmp/count-registry/.archive/_archived_skills/count-registry ~/.claude/skills/count-registrySKILL.md
# Count Registry Single source of truth for project entity counts. ## Source of Truth All counts live in `tools/registry/count-manifest.json`. Validators auto-compute actual values from filesystem globs. No other file should hard-code these numbers. ## How to Reference Counts When generating documentation or artifacts that mention entity quantities: 1. **Prefer descriptive language** — "a set of specialized agents and subagents", "the full skill catalog", "the multi-step workflow" 2. **When exact numbers are needed**, read `tools/registry/count-manifest.json` and state the number with a parenthetical source: "16 primary agents (per count-manifest.json)" 3. **Never hard-code** a count into prose that will be committed to the repo ## Canonical Phrasing Patterns | Entity | Canonical phrase | | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Agents | "specialized agents and subagents" | | Skills | "the skill catalog" or "available skills" | | Instructions | "instruction files" | | Validators | "the validation suite" | | Workflow steps | "the multi-step workflow" (never count steps — Step 3.5 makes any number ambiguous) | | MCP tools | "pricing query tools" | | VS Code extensions | "pre-installed extensions" | ## Computed Entities The manifest defines `computed_from` globs for each entity. The `validate-no-hardcoded-counts.mjs` validator resolves these globs against the filesystem and reports any drift between documented and actual counts. Entities with a static `value` field (e.g., golden principles = 10) are genuinely fixed and exempt from the no-hard-coding rule.
Guidance for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights. Provides telemetry patterns, SDK setup, and configuration references. WHEN: how to instrument app, App Insights SDK, telemetry patterns, what is App Insights, Application Insights guidance, instrumentation examples, APM best practices.
Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OCR. WHEN: AI Search, query search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcribe, OCR, convert text to speech.
Configure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents. WHEN: semantic caching, token limit, content safety, load balancing, AI model governance, MCP rate limiting, jailbreak detection, add Azure OpenAI backend, add AI Foundry model, test AI gateway, LLM policies, configure AI backend, token metrics, AI cost control, convert API to MCP, import OpenAPI to gateway.
ROUTING SKILL — delegates to specialized diagram skills. USE FOR: any diagram request when the caller does not know which tool to use. Routes to drawio, python-diagrams, or mermaid based on diagram type.
Build and deploy GitHub Copilot SDK apps to Azure. WHEN: build copilot app, create copilot app, copilot SDK, @github/copilot-sdk, scaffold copilot project, copilot-powered app, deploy copilot app, host on azure, azure model, BYOM, bring your own model, use my own model, azure openai model, DefaultAzureCredential, self-hosted model, copilot SDK service, chat app with copilot, copilot-sdk-service template, azd init copilot, CopilotClient, createSession, sendAndWait, GitHub Models API.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Azure Messaging SDKs for Event Hubs and Service Bus. Covers connection failures, authentication errors, message processing issues, and SDK configuration problems. WHEN: event hub SDK error, service bus SDK issue, messaging connection failure, AMQP error, event processor host issue, message lock lost, send timeout, receiver disconnected, SDK troubleshooting, azure messaging SDK, event hub consumer, service bus queue issue, topic subscription error, enable logging event hub, service bus logging, eventhub python, servicebus java, eventhub javascript, servicebus dotnet, event hub checkpoint, event hub not receiving messages, service bus dead letter.
Authoritative reference for VS Code Copilot customization mechanisms: instructions, prompt files, custom agents, agent skills, MCP servers, hooks, and plugins. Use when deciding which customization type to use, creating new .instructions.md/.prompt.md/.agent.md/SKILL.md/mcp.json files from scratch, or debugging why a customization is not loading. DO NOT USE FOR: routine file edits where the format is already known.
Scaffolds new Agent Skills with SKILL.md frontmatter, folder structure, and bundled resources. USE FOR: create a skill, scaffold skill, new skill template, add agent capability. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure infrastructure, Bicep/Terraform code, architecture decisions.