cloud-networking

cloud-networking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arjunprabhulal/devops-skills. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,059 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to the software-defined network around cloud resources, including private networks, smaller network sections, routes, connections, and traffic leaving the cloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan VPC or VNet layouts, address ranges, subnets, routing, network-to-network links, private service access, and hybrid connections.
Why use it?
It helps prevent accidental access, address conflicts, and connectivity problems as cloud systems grow or connect to data centers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devops-skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arjunprabhulal/devops-skills/cloud-networking
Any agent
npx skills add arjunprabhulal/devops-skills --skill cloud-networking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arjunprabhulal/devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devops-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,059 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00114 $0.01059
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00106

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8088e8d7f5ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-networking 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 4d 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/cloud/cloud-networking/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Networking

A cloud network is software pretending to be wires, and that means every routing decision is explicit and reviewable in a way a physical network never was. The cost of that explicitness is that nothing connects by default — every path between two resources exists because someone configured it, which is a feature once you stop fighting it.

Treat the network layout as a security boundary first and a connectivity convenience second. Every path that traffic can take should be one someone deliberately allowed, not one that happened to work.

1. Plan CIDR ranges before you provision anything

Subnet ranges are painful to change after resources are placed in them, and overlapping ranges are what block a future VPC peering or transit connection. Pick address space with room for growth and with an eye toward every network you might ever need to connect to — including a data center's existing ranges and other cloud accounts' VPCs.

Decision Get it wrong and…
CIDR too small you run out of IPs and must re-subnet under pressure
CIDR overlaps peer network peering or transit connection becomes impossible without renumbering
No reserved space for future subnets new tiers (data, private endpoints) have nowhere to go

Done when: the CIDR plan has documented headroom and has been checked against every network it may ever need to peer or connect with.

2. Separate public and private subnets by function, not convenience

Anything that doesn't need a public IP shouldn't have a route to the internet gateway. Public subnets hold load balancers and bastion/NAT infrastructure; private subnets hold everything else, reaching the internet only through a NAT gateway if they need outbound access at all. This is the single biggest reduction in attack surface available at the network layer, and it costs nothing but discipline in the route table.

Done when: no compute or data resource holding sensitive data has a route to an internet gateway.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 4d ago First seen · 90 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 8088e8d7f5ca

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cloud-networking is a skill published in the GitHub repository arjunprabhulal/devops-skills (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,059 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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