What is cloud-migration-planning?

A guide for moving applications and their supporting systems from local or on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. It covers options ranging from moving systems as they are to rebuilding them for the cloud.

Use it to plan moves to the cloud, modernize legacy systems, consolidate platforms, improve scalability or recovery, and address cost or compliance needs.

It helps organize assessment, database migration, application changes, cutover, and validation while aiming to reduce downtime and migration risk.

cloud-migration-planning — Skill by aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

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.

Any agent

npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill cloud-migration-planning

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 625 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. Third-party audits

Socket warn 16 Sept 2026
Snyk pass 16 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.00625
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00250
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00125
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00063

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 033f8b2f1f3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-migration-planning 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-config.sh), 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.

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.

skills/cloud-migration-planning/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Cloud migration planning involves assessing current infrastructure, designing migration strategies, executing migrations with minimal downtime, and validating outcomes. Support lift-and-shift, replatforming, and refactoring approaches for smooth cloud adoption.

When to Use

Moving from on-premises to cloud
Cloud platform consolidation
Legacy system modernization
Reducing data center costs
Improving scalability and availability
Meeting compliance requirements
Disaster recovery enhancement
Technology refresh initiatives

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Cloud migration assessment tool
from enum import Enum
from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
from dataclasses import dataclass

class MigrationStrategy(Enum):
    LIFT_AND_SHIFT = "lift_and_shift"  # Rehost
    REPLATFORM = "replatform"          # Rehost with optimizations
    REFACTOR = "refactor"              # Rebuild for cloud
    REPURCHASE = "repurchase"          # Switch to SaaS
    RETIRE = "retire"                  # Decommission

class ApplicationComplexity(Enum):
    LOW = 1
    MEDIUM = 2
    HIGH = 3

@dataclass
class ApplicationAssessment:
    name: str
    complexity: ApplicationComplexity
    dependencies: List[str]
    estimated_effort: int  # days
    business_criticality: int  # 1-10
    current_costs: float  # annual
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
Migration Assessment and Planning	Migration Assessment and Planning
Database Migration Strategies	Database Migration Strategies
Terraform Migration Infrastructure	Terraform Migration Infrastructure
Cutover Validation Checklist	Cutover Validation Checklist

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 033f8b2f1f3c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-migration-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 625 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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