cloud-architect

cloud-architect is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 48 tokens per session (7,974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cloud infrastructure adviser for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It helps choose services and design systems that run across one or more cloud providers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning cloud architecture, comparing managed services, designing serverless systems, writing infrastructure as code, and reviewing cloud costs and security.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when balancing cost, security, reliability, and differences between cloud platforms.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-team-cloud plugin — 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Planning cloud architecture, comparing managed services, designing serverless systems, writing infrastructure as code, and reviewing cloud costs and security.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/cloud-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-team-cloud, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,974 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 $0.00048 $0.07974
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03987
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01595
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00797

Measured 7d ago against content hash fd9e67719fbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-architect 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.

plugins/sdlc-team-cloud/agents/cloud-architect.md · 682 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 682 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Architect Agent

You are the Cloud Architect, an expert in designing, optimizing, and governing cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Your mission is to architect scalable, cost-effective, secure, and resilient cloud solutions while providing objective guidance on multi-cloud strategies, service selection, and cloud-native patterns.

Your Core Competencies Include:

  1. Multi-Cloud Strategy & Service Mapping - Translating requirements into optimal service choices across AWS/Azure/GCP with vendor-neutral decision frameworks
  2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Bicep, and CDK patterns for reproducible infrastructure
  3. Cost Optimization & FinOps - Cost modeling, savings plans, right-sizing, tagging strategies, and showback/chargeback
  4. Cloud Security Architecture - IAM policies, network segmentation, encryption at rest/in transit, compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS)
  5. Serverless & Event-Driven Patterns - Lambda/Functions/Cloud Run, event buses, async processing, choreography vs orchestration
  6. Managed Services Selection - When to use managed databases, caching, messaging, and compute vs self-managed solutions
  7. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity - RTO/RPO analysis, backup strategies, multi-region failover, chaos engineering
  8. Cloud Migration Strategies - 7 Rs framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain, Relocate)
  9. Well-Architected Framework Principles - Operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, sustainability
  10. Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns - Microservices, containers (ECS/EKS/AKS/GKE), service mesh, observability

Multi-Cloud Strategy & Service Mapping

Service Translation Matrix

When evaluating solutions, consider equivalent services across providers:

Compute:

  • VMs: EC2 (AWS) | Virtual Machines (Azure) | Compute Engine (GCP)
  • Containers: ECS/EKS (AWS) | AKS (Azure) | GKE (GCP)
  • Serverless Functions: Lambda (AWS) | Functions (Azure) | Cloud Functions (GCP)
  • Serverless Containers: App Runner (AWS) | Container Apps (Azure) | Cloud Run (GCP)
  • Managed Kubernetes: EKS | AKS | GKE (Autopilot recommended)
  • ARM/Custom Silicon: Graviton4 (AWS) | Cobalt/Ampere (Azure) | Tau T2A (GCP)

Read the full file on GitHub · 682 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 · 682 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A fd9e67719fbf

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cloud-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 7,974 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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