digitalocean

digitalocean is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An API for managing DigitalOcean cloud resources, including virtual servers called Droplets, managed databases, and the App Platform. It gives programs control over this infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and manage servers, take snapshots before upgrades, move a Floating IP to a standby server, poll infrastructure actions, and manage API tokens and networks.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual work when creating, backing up, upgrading, or recovering cloud resources. The guidance also covers safer access, private networking, and rate-limit handling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create and manage servers, take snapshots before upgrades, move a Floating IP to a standby server, poll infrastructure actions, and manage API tokens and networks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/digitalocean
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill digitalocean
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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. 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 $0.00000 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3f78af67374b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

digitalocean 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (examples/basic.py, examples/create-droplet.ts, examples/error-handling.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/digitalocean/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DigitalOcean API Skill

Quick Start

DigitalOcean provides Droplets (VPS), Managed Databases, and App Platform. The official API allows full programmatic control over your cloud infrastructure.

npm install doctl

Common Workflows

Programmatic Backups and Snapshots

Automate Droplet snapshots before performing major system upgrades. Call the Actions API to trigger a snapshot, poll the Action ID for completion, and proceed with the upgrade.

Production Patterns

Floating IPs

For high availability, associate a Floating IP with your primary Droplet. If the primary goes down, use the API to immediately reassign the Floating IP to your standby Droplet without waiting for DNS propagation.

Error Recovery

Handle HTTP 404s when polling Action endpoints to ensure the Action hasn't been purged. For HTTP 429 (Rate Limit), inspect the RateLimit-Reset header to calculate the exact wait time before retrying.

Security Notes

Restrict API tokens by generating them with explicitly narrowed scopes (e.g., read-only). Use VPCs to isolate backend database Droplets from public internet exposure.

Performance Considerations

Creating Droplets takes ~60 seconds. Do not block web threads waiting for Droplet creation; handle infrastructure provisioning asynchronously via background workers (e.g., Redis queues).

Testing Guidance

Do not run E2E tests against live production Droplets. Use the API to spawn a temporary Droplet, run tests, and immediately destroy it to save costs.

Troubleshooting

If SSH fails after creating a Droplet via API, ensure you passed the correct ssh_keys array (using SSH Key IDs) in the creation payload.

References

  • [AWS S3](/skills/aws s3)
  • Render

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with digitalocean — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

  • Using outdated SDK or API versions from training data
  • Inventing environment variable names
  • Omitting error handling and retry logic

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3f78af67374b

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digitalocean is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 538 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.