configuration-management

configuration-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 42 tokens per session (700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing application settings across environments, including environment variables, configuration files, secrets, and feature flags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define configuration hierarchies, manage secrets, set feature flags, and apply 12-factor app practices.
Why use it?
It keeps development, test, and production settings separate and reduces the risk of exposing credentials or changing configuration inconsistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define configuration hierarchies, manage secrets, set feature flags, and apply 12-factor app practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/configuration-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill configuration-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 700 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 pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00700
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00350
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1fe131c07830, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuration-management 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-schema.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/configuration-management/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuration Management

Table of Contents

Overview

Comprehensive guide to managing application configuration across environments, including environment variables, configuration files, secrets, feature flags, and following 12-factor app methodology.

When to Use

  • Setting up configuration for different environments
  • Managing secrets and credentials
  • Implementing feature flags
  • Creating configuration hierarchies
  • Following 12-factor app principles
  • Migrating configuration to cloud services
  • Implementing dynamic configuration
  • Managing multi-tenant configurations

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# .env.development
NODE_ENV=development
PORT=3000
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost:5432/myapp_dev
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
LOG_LEVEL=debug
API_KEY=dev-api-key-12345

# .env.production
NODE_ENV=production
PORT=8080
DATABASE_URL=${DATABASE_URL}  # From environment
REDIS_URL=${REDIS_URL}
LOG_LEVEL=info
API_KEY=${API_KEY}  # From secret manager

# .env.test
NODE_ENV=test
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost:5432/myapp_test
LOG_LEVEL=error

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Environment Variables Environment Variables
Configuration Hierarchies Configuration Hierarchies
Secret Management Secret Management
Feature Flags Feature Flags
12-Factor App Configuration 12-Factor App Configuration
Configuration Validation Configuration Validation
Dynamic Configuration (Remote Config) Dynamic Configuration (Remote Config)

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 9d ago First seen · 106 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1fe131c07830

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configuration-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 700 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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