cloud-instance-ops

cloud-instance-ops is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AgenticAIPlan/AgenticAISkills. It costs 109 tokens per session (2,905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for diagnosing access to Linux cloud servers and carrying out approved operations through SSH, command-line tools, or official cloud command tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect AWS EC2 or Alibaba Cloud ECS instances, check services and processes, read logs, transfer files, troubleshoot access, or deploy and validate server-side applications when explicitly authorized.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to investigate connection, authentication, bastion, service, process, file-transfer, and log problems. It does not bypass MFA, SSO, approval steps, captchas, or access controls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agentic-ai-skills plugin — 54 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agenticaiplan/agenticaiskills/cloud-instance-ops
Any agent
npx skills add AgenticAIPlan/AgenticAISkills --skill cloud-instance-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgenticAIPlan/AgenticAISkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/agenticaiplan/agenticaiskills/cloud-instance-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/agenticaiplan/agenticaiskills/cloud-instance-ops.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,905 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00109 $0.02905
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00291

Measured 3d ago against content hash 77332b80b79e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-instance-ops scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/artifact_check.py, scripts/deployment_final_check.py, scripts/normalize_result.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

4. **Example-request acceptance**: rerun the exact original `curl` or request shape from the task prompt
skills/cloud-instance-ops/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Instance Ops

Overview

Use this skill to manage cloud servers and instances like a careful human operator within the current authorization boundary. Prefer SSH and official cloud CLIs. Do not try to bypass MFA, SSO, approval workflows, captchas, IP allowlists, bastions, or least-privilege controls.

This skill is optimized for a shared core workflow that can be reused in Codex, OpenClaw, and Claude Code. Codex-specific UI metadata lives in agents/openai.yaml; the operational logic stays in this SKILL.md plus the bundled references and scripts.

Use this skill when

  • You need to connect to a Linux instance through SSH, password SSH, ProxyJump, or a bastion.
  • You need file transfer, service/process checks, log inspection, restart operations, or access troubleshooting on an existing instance.
  • You need AWS EC2 or Aliyun ECS instance inspection or other cloud-side checks through the official CLI.
  • You need to deploy a model, stand up an API, validate output artifacts, or run cloud-side mutating actions and the user has explicitly asked for that path.

Required inputs

Normalize each request into these five inputs before acting:

  1. Target object: host/IP, instance ID, region, environment, bastion
  2. Cloud environment: generic Linux, AWS, or Aliyun
  3. Authentication method: SSH key, password SSH, agent, AWS profile, Aliyun profile, short-lived token, SSO
  4. Restrictions: MFA, approval, allowlist, no public route, read-only, captcha, missing CLI, shared GPU/port use
  5. Requested action: connect, transfer, inspect, logs, restart, deploy, single-run, serve, accept, instance-check, cloud-op

Treat deploy, single-run, serve, accept, and cloud-op as explicit-action modes. Do not enter them from a vague “帮我看看机器” style request without confirming intent from the user prompt or environment.

If an input is missing, infer it from the environment first. Ask the user only for the minimum missing detail.

Core operating model

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 3d ago First seen · 267 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 77332b80b79e

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cloud-instance-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgenticAIPlan/AgenticAISkills (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,905 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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