atmos-workflows

atmos-workflows is a skill for Claude Code from cloudposse/atmos. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,244 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A system for defining reusable, multi-step Atmos workflows. It can coordinate infrastructure commands, conditions, retries, parallel work, matrices, containers, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate deployments, coordinate work across components, run steps conditionally or in parallel, and collect workflow outputs.
Why use it?
It replaces ad-hoc command sequences with a named process whose steps and prerequisites are written down and repeatable.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is command: ./scripts/check-prod.sh.

Part of the atmos plugin — 51 skills shipped together

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 · 1,372 stars · on GitHub · atmos.tools

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudposse/atmos/atmos-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atmos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,244 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 $0.00049 $0.01244
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured 2d ago against content hash 33940011f694, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atmos-workflows 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 2d 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-workflows/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atmos Workflows

Use this skill for reusable orchestration in workflows: files: multi-step deployment flows, parallel or matrix execution, cross-component operations, preconditions, retries, typed UI/output steps, container/emulator steps, and workflow-level dependencies.

When a task is primarily about shared step fields (type, working_directory, env, output, retry, script, workdir, or hook with: payloads), also load atmos-steps.

For full workflow syntax, read references/workflow-syntax.md.

Quick Shape

workflows:
  deploy-network:
    description: Deploy network components
    stack: plat-ue2-dev
    steps:
      - type: atmos
        command: terraform deploy vpc
      - type: atmos
        command: terraform deploy dns
atmos workflow deploy-network
atmos workflow deploy-network --stack plat-ue2-prod

Discovery

Workflow files live under workflows.base_path in atmos.yaml.

workflows:
  base_path: stacks/workflows

When --file is omitted, Atmos scans workflow files and runs the workflow if exactly one match is found. Use --file for ambiguous workflow names.

Step Type Guidance

Use native step types when they express the intent directly:

Need Prefer
Run Atmos type: atmos
Shell/process execution shell or exec
Concurrent execution parallel, matrix
Background services and waits background: true, wait, wait-all
Preconditions require / assert
Retry transient failures retry
Containers and emulators container, emulator
HTTP calls http
User-facing output say, toast, markdown, table, pager, format, spin, stage
Workflow recordings cast, simulate via atmos-cast

Shell is appropriate for short glue, terminal-native tools, or checked-in scripts. Large inline shell blocks with loops, sleeps, formatting, CI metadata, or hand-rolled parallelism should usually be replaced by native workflow steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 178 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 33940011f694

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atmos-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudposse/atmos (1,372 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,244 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.