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.
npx skills add aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit --skill alibabacloud-ecs-instance-opsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00087 | $0.02041 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00035 | $0.00816 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00408 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00204 |
Grade A, and why
alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 120 https://aliyuncli.alicdn.com/setup.sh)" How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
ECS Instance Lifecycle Operations
Manage the full lifecycle of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances: create, start, stop, restart, release, and query.
Pre-check: Alibaba Cloud CLI must be installed and at least version 3.3.3.
aliyun version # must be >= 3.3.3; if not installed:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 120 https://aliyuncli.alicdn.com/setup.sh)"
Pre-check: Alibaba Cloud Credentials Required
Security Rules:
- NEVER read, echo, or print AK/SK values
- NEVER ask the user to input AK/SK directly
- NEVER use
aliyun configure setwith literal credential values- ONLY use
aliyun configure listto check credential statusaliyun configure listIf no valid profile exists, STOP and guide user to configure credentials.
Pre-check: Aliyun CLI plugin update required
aliyun configure set --auto-plugin-install true aliyun plugin update
Observability (MUST follow for every aliyun command)
Upon loading this skill, generate a random session ID (32-char lowercase hex string) once for the entire session. Use it as {session-id} below.
Rule: Every aliyun CLI command that calls a cloud API MUST include the --user-agent flag.
--user-agent AlibabaCloud-Agent-Skills/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops/{session-id}
Cost Estimation (MUST before chargeable operations)
Before executing any chargeable instance operation (run-instances, modify-instance-spec, modify-instance-charge-type), you MUST follow the alibabacloud-cli-cost-estimation skill to evaluate the cost impact at the user task level:
- Single operation — Append
--estimate-costto the exact command before execution, present the quoted amount, and wait for user confirmation. - Multi-step task (e.g. stop + change spec + start) — Quote all chargeable steps up front using
--estimate-costand--estimate-cost-contextas needed, present one consolidated cost plan, then ask for a single confirmation of the whole task before executing step 1. - Never silently execute a chargeable instance operation when a cost quote was obtainable.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 8f1439f3a7c0
- 1mo ago First seen · 194 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 579e577c68bd
alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit (29 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,041 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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