atmos-stacks

atmos-stacks is a skill for Claude Code from cloudposse/atmos. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,813 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Atmos stacks: YAML files that describe which infrastructure components to deploy and how each environment should configure them. It explains imports, inheritance, merging, local values, variables, dependencies, and overrides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and modernise stack manifests, combine imported configuration, set component values, and model relationships between infrastructure components.
Why use it?
It lets the same infrastructure code serve different organisations, accounts, regions, and stages without copying configuration for every environment.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the atmos plugin — 53 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build and modernise stack manifests, combine imported configuration, set component values, and model relationships between infrastructure components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudposse/atmos/atmos-stacks
About the project

Atmos is an infrastructure runtime that coordinates tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Helm, Packer, Ansible, and containers through consistent commands and configuration. It is for teams running cloud infrastructure on laptops, in CI, or through AI agents across environments and regions. Its catalogue entries provide skills, agents, commands, and other add-ons for Atmos workflows.

cloudposse/atmos · 1,403 stars · on GitHub · atmos.tools

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 cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-stacks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atmos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,813 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 $0.00032 $0.02813
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.01125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00281

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 381fe6e0d570, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atmos-stacks 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.

agent-skills/skills/atmos-stacks/SKILL.md · 396 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 396 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atmos Stack Configuration

Stacks are YAML configuration files that define which components to deploy, with what settings, and how they relate to each other. They separate configuration from infrastructure code, enabling the same Terraform root modules to be deployed across many environments with different settings.

What Stacks Are

A stack manifest is a YAML file that declares components and their configuration for a specific combination of organization, tenant, account, region, and stage. Atmos discovers stack manifests based on included_paths and excluded_paths in atmos.yaml, then deep-merges all imported configurations to produce the final resolved state for each component.

Stacks are not Terraform workspaces, although Atmos derives workspace names from stack names. A single stack manifest can configure multiple components, and a single component can appear across many stacks with different variable values.

Need Load
Local and remote import mechanics atmos-imports
Modernizing legacy stack patterns atmos-modernization
YAML function inventory atmos-yaml-functions
Component source provisioning atmos-components

Stack Discovery

Atmos discovers stack manifests based on included_paths and excluded_paths configured in the stacks section of atmos.yaml. For root config discovery and routing, see the atmos-config skill; for path layout and base_path behavior, see atmos-project-layout.

Stack Name Precedence

Atmos resolves the stack name using this priority (highest first):

  1. name field in the stack manifest (explicit override).
  2. name_template in atmos.yaml (Go template).
  3. Legacy name_pattern in atmos.yaml (migration-only; recommend name_template or explicit name).
  4. File basename (e.g., prod.yaml becomes prod).

Stack Manifest Structure

Read the full file on GitHub · 396 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. 1mo ago First seen · 396 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 381fe6e0d570

Subscribe to this mod's changes

atmos-stacks is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudposse/atmos (1,403 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,813 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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