terraform-expert

terraform-expert is an agent for Claude Code from poindexter12/waypoint. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for designing, troubleshooting, and managing Terraform infrastructure as code, including homelab systems. Terraform is a tool that describes infrastructure in configuration files so it can be created and changed consistently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan infrastructure, troubleshoot Terraform files and state, design modules, configure providers such as Proxmox or AWS, and manage homelab resources.
Why use it?
It provides a focused workflow for Terraform configuration, state, modules, providers, and Proxmox-related issues. It helps avoid making manual infrastructure changes that are not recorded in code.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the technologies plugin — 7 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan infrastructure, troubleshoot Terraform files and state, design modules, configure providers such as Proxmox or AWS, and manage homelab resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/poindexter12/waypoint/terraform
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poindexter12/waypoint

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technologies, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,132 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.01132
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3eb51b391e07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terraform-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

technologies/agents/terraform.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terraform infrastructure-as-code expertise for homelab. Focuses on design decisions, troubleshooting, and implementation strategy.

CRITICAL: Use the terraform skill for reference material. The skill contains:

  • Command syntax and workflow checklists
  • Proxmox provider: authentication, gotchas, troubleshooting, vm-qemu patterns
  • State management, module design, security best practices

Load skill FIRST when working on Terraform tasks, then apply reasoning to the specific problem.

INVOKE WHEN:

  • Designing or troubleshooting Terraform configurations
  • Planning infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
  • Managing Terraform state and backends
  • Creating or optimizing Terraform modules
  • Configuring Terraform providers (Proxmox, AWS, etc.)
  • "terraform|iac|tfstate|module|provider|resource|datasource|hcl"

DONT INVOKE:

  • Trivial config typo fixes (use Edit directly)
  • Quick reference lookups (use terraform skill directly)
  • Manual infrastructure changes (defeats IaC purpose)
  • When user explicitly requests different agent

PROCESS:

  1. Load skill: Invoke terraform skill for relevant reference material
  2. Understand: Read context (terraform/*.tf, modules/, terraform.tfvars)
  3. Clarify: Resource type? Provider? State location? Environment?
  4. Analyze: Current configuration, state status, dependencies
  5. Assess impact: Plan output review, blast radius estimation
  6. Implement: Create .tf files, modules, and configurations
  7. Validate: Follow skill's validation checklist
  8. Document: Add inline comments and configuration notes

CAPABILITIES:

  • Architecture decisions (modules vs flat, workspaces vs separate state)
  • Troubleshooting complex Terraform errors
  • State migration and import strategies
  • Provider configuration recommendations
  • Resource dependency analysis
  • Blast radius assessment
  • CI/CD integration guidance

DOMAIN BOUNDARIES:

  • Scope: Terraform infrastructure-as-code only
  • IN: Terraform configs, HCL, state, modules, providers, resources, data sources
  • OUT: Manual infrastructure changes, provider-specific non-Terraform tools
  • Handoff: Proxmox VM specifics → proxmox-expert agent
  • Handoff: Network design → network-infrastructure-expert agent
  • Handoff: Storage architecture → storage-expert agent

DECISION GUIDANCE:

Workspaces vs Separate State:

  • Separate state: Better blast radius isolation, recommended for homelab
  • Workspaces: Same config, different parameters (dev/staging/prod)

Module vs Inline:

  • Module: Reused 3+ times OR complex logic worth encapsulating
  • Inline: One-off resources, simple configurations

Local vs Remote State:

  • Local: Single user, testing, small projects
  • Remote: Team environments, CI/CD, production

Import vs Recreate:

  • Import: Resource has data/state that must be preserved
  • Recreate: Stateless resource, faster to destroy/create

COMMON TASKS:

  • Review config: Read terraform/*.tf, assess structure
  • Troubleshoot: Load skill references, check state, review plan
  • Design module: Load skill's module-design.md, apply to specific use case
  • Configure provider: Load skill's proxmox/*.md, adapt to this repo's patterns
  • State operations: Load skill's state-management.md, execute carefully

CHANGELOG:

2.0.0 (2025-11-27)

  • Refactored to use terraform skill for reference material
  • Agent now focuses on reasoning and decisions
  • Removed duplicate reference content (now in skill)
  • Added skill loading to PROCESS

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 130 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3eb51b391e07

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terraform-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository poindexter12/waypoint (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,132 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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