cloud-build-helper

cloud-build-helper is a skill for Claude Code from armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins. It costs 36 tokens per session (823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for configuring Google Cloud Build pipelines, which automatically build, test, package, and deploy software in Google Cloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Cloud Build configuration, build and push container images, deploy services, and add caching or parallel build steps.
Why use it?
It helps organize build steps, caching, parallel work, and deployment settings so pipelines are easier to maintain and can finish faster.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the gcp-toolkit plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create Cloud Build configuration, build and push container images, deploy services, and add caching or parallel build steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins/cloud-build-helper
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 armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins --skill cloud-build-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gcp-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 823 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 $0.00036 $0.00823
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00329
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 13f7e61e75d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-build-helper 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 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.

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.

plugins/gcp-toolkit/skills/cloud-build-helper/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Build Helper

Quick Start

Configure Cloud Build pipelines with proper caching and optimization for fast, efficient builds.

Instructions

Step 1: Create cloudbuild.yaml

steps:
  # Build step
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
    args: ['build', '-t', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$COMMIT_SHA', '.']
  
  # Push to registry
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
    args: ['push', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$COMMIT_SHA']
  
  # Deploy
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/gcloud'
    args:
      - 'run'
      - 'deploy'
      - 'myapp'
      - '--image=gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$COMMIT_SHA'
      - '--region=us-central1'

images:
  - 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$COMMIT_SHA'

options:
  machineType: 'N1_HIGHCPU_8'
  logging: CLOUD_LOGGING_ONLY

Step 2: Configure caching

steps:
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
    entrypoint: 'bash'
    args:
      - '-c'
      - |
        docker pull gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:latest || exit 0
        docker build \
          --cache-from gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:latest \
          -t gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$COMMIT_SHA \
          -t gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:latest \
          .
        docker push gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$COMMIT_SHA
        docker push gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:latest

Step 3: Set up build triggers

# Create trigger from GitHub
gcloud builds triggers create github \
  --repo-name=my-repo \
  --repo-owner=my-org \
  --branch-pattern="^main$" \
  --build-config=cloudbuild.yaml

# Create trigger with substitutions
gcloud builds triggers create github \
  --repo-name=my-repo \
  --repo-owner=my-org \
  --branch-pattern="^main$" \
  --build-config=cloudbuild.yaml \
  --substitutions=_ENV=production,_REGION=us-central1

Step 4: Optimize build performance

Use parallel steps:

steps:
  # These run in parallel
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/npm'
    id: 'install-frontend'
    args: ['install']
    dir: 'frontend'
    waitFor: ['-']
  
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/npm'
    id: 'install-backend'
    args: ['install']
    dir: 'backend'
    waitFor: ['-']
  
  # This waits for both
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/npm'
    args: ['run', 'build']
    waitFor: ['install-frontend', 'install-backend']

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 122 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 13f7e61e75d9

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cloud-build-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository armanzeroeight/fastagent-plugins (29 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 823 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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