adcm-action-authoring

adcm-action-authoring is a skill for Claude Code from arenadata/adcm-agent. It costs 162 tokens per session (2,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing the Ansible playbook behind an ADCM action. Ansible is a tool for running repeatable operations on machines, and ADCM creates the inventory and supplies the action-specific data for each run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to author or review playbooks that read cluster, service, job, upgrade, and host data and use ADCM's configuration, state, health-check, and change-management modules.
Why use it?
It explains the unusual run-time context that ADCM provides, reducing failures caused by assuming a hand-written inventory or overlooking optional services and values.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the adcm plugin — 8 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to author or review playbooks that read cluster, service, job, upgrade, and host data and use ADCM's configuration, state, health-check, and change-management modules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arenadata/adcm-agent/adcm-action-authoring
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 arenadata/adcm-agent --skill adcm-action-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arenadata/adcm-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install adcm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,532 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.
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 $0.00162 $0.02532
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01266
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00253

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2addc012a312, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adcm-action-authoring 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 8d 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.

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/adcm-action-authoring/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing the Ansible an ADCM action runs

An action's script: is an ordinary Ansible playbook, executed by ADCM against an inventory it generates for that one run. Everything unusual about writing one comes from that inventory and from the handful of modules ADCM injects.

The inventory is generated per run, and it is the whole context

You do not write an inventory and you cannot assume one. ADCM builds it from the cluster's current mapping, configuration and imports at the moment the action starts. Top-level variables (reference/job-inventory.md):

Variable Holds
cluster the cluster's config, state, multi_state, name, id, imports
services every added service by name — .config, .state, and its components
job this run — .config (what the operator supplied), .id, .action, .params
<service>.before_upgrade the pre-upgrade snapshot, during an upgrade only
adcm_hostid the ADCM id of the host the task is running on

Two rules follow, and both are the difference between a playbook that works once and one that works.

Guard every optional lookup. A service that is not added is simply absent from services, and an unset config field is none, not missing. services.foo.config.bar explodes on a cluster that never added foo.

when:
  - services.monitoring is defined
  - services.monitoring.state != 'created'

job.config is the action's own configuration, cluster.config and services.<name>.config are the object's. They are different things and confusing them produces a task that reads a value nobody set.

Group names come from the mapping, not from you

ADCM generates these groups; the names are exact:

Group Contains
CLUSTER every host in the cluster, excluding hosts in maintenance mode
<service> hosts running any component of that service
<service>.<component> hosts running that component
<service>.<component>.add hosts the pending hc_acl change will add it to
<service>.<component>.remove hosts it will be removed from
target the host a host_action: true action was launched against
PROVIDER, HOST hostprovider actions: all its hosts / the acting host
CLUSTER.maintenance_mode, <service>.maintenance_mode, <service>.<component>.maintenance_mode the hosts excluded from the groups above

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 221 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 2addc012a312

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adcm-action-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository arenadata/adcm-agent (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 2,532 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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