alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops

alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops is a skill for Claude Code from aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for managing the lifecycle of Alibaba Cloud ECS virtual servers. It covers actions such as creating, starting, stopping, restarting, releasing, querying, and modifying instances.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating and inspecting ECS instances, changing their state, running batch operations, modifying instance settings, and releasing instances when they are no longer needed.
Why use it?
It helps perform server operations with checks for credentials, CLI support, command tracking, and cost implications. It also sets rules for avoiding exposure of access keys and secrets.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the alibabacloud-ecs-ops plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Creating and inspecting ECS instances, changing their state, running batch operations, modifying instance settings, and releasing instances when they are no longer needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit --skill alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alibabacloud-ecs-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,036 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00087 $0.02036
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01018
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00204

Measured 11d ago against content hash 579e577c68bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

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 11d 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)"
plugins/alibabacloud-ecs-ops/skills/alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 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 set with literal credential values
  • ONLY use aliyun configure list to check credential status
aliyun configure list

If 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:

  1. Single operation — Append --estimate-cost to the exact command before execution, present the quoted amount, and wait for user confirmation.
  2. Multi-step task (e.g. stop + change spec + start) — Quote all chargeable steps up front using --estimate-cost and --estimate-cost-context as needed, present one consolidated cost plan, then ask for a single confirmation of the whole task before executing step 1.
  3. Never silently execute a chargeable instance operation when a cost quote was obtainable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

Files

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 194 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 579e577c68bd

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alibabacloud-ecs-instance-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository aliyun/alibabacloud-agent-toolkit (21 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,036 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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