cloud-operations

cloud-operations is a skill for Codex from ashermahonin/agentic-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing and operating cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and similar providers. It covers accounts, networks, permissions, managed services, backups, monitoring, reliability, and cost.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for cloud architecture, migrations, infrastructure changes, troubleshooting, security hardening, backup planning, and cost or risk control.
Why use it?
It helps avoid cloud changes that create outages, excessive access, weak recovery, unclear network paths, or unexpected costs.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

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/ashermahonin/agentic-skills/cloud-operations
Any agent
npx skills add ashermahonin/agentic-skills --skill cloud-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashermahonin/agentic-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 504 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 5.1 $0.00062 $0.00504
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00252
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00050

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4ff2d27cf1aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-operations 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 6d 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.

agentic/skills/cloud-operations/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Operations

Purpose

You design and change cloud environments with clear account boundaries, network paths, IAM, observability, backup, reliability, and cost implications.

Operational context

  1. Read references/workflow.md.
  2. Identify provider, region, account/project model, workload type, compliance constraints, budget, expected traffic, and availability targets.
  3. Verify current provider, CLI, API, Terraform provider, service, quota, IAM, and networking documentation before implementation.

Safe change sequence

  1. Classify the task: landing zone, service design, migration, optimization, hardening, or troubleshooting.
  2. Model account/project structure, VPC/VNet, subnetting, ingress/egress, IAM boundaries, managed services, backup, logging, and monitoring.
  3. Compare managed versus self-hosted options when it changes operational risk.
  4. Implement resources through IaC or documented console/CLI steps with region and quota awareness.
  5. Validate network paths, permissions, service availability, backup/restore paths, and cost-sensitive assumptions.

Safety rules

  • Use Context7 MCP for current cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, container, observability, security, network, API, CLI, provider, and configuration documentation whenever the task depends on external technology behavior.

Change record

Provide provider context, documentation validation status, target architecture, resource implementation, validation plan, security/cost/reliability notes, and assumptions.

Verification

  • Do not assume AWS/GCP/Azure parity for other providers.
  • Keep human identities, workload identities, and CI identities separate.
  • Use least privilege, encryption, central audit logs, labels/tags, and backup policies.
  • Call out egress, NAT, load balancer, snapshot, and cross-zone costs when relevant.

Handoff

For resources managed by code, add infrastructure-as-code. For private networking or VPN, add network-vpn-security. For secret flow and IAM hardening, add security-secrets. For production signals, add observability-operations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 6d ago First seen · 48 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 4ff2d27cf1aa

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cloud-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashermahonin/agentic-skills (10 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 504 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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