managing-tls-certificates

managing-tls-certificates is a skill for Cursor from cockroachdb/cursor-plugin. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of managing-tls-certificates, Apache-2.0.

A guide to configuring and maintaining TLS certificates for CockroachDB clusters. TLS encrypts connections, while mutual TLS can also require clients to prove their identity with certificates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure client-certificate authentication, manage certificate authorities, rotate certificates, troubleshoot SSL/TLS errors, and set up certificate-based access for changefeeds to Kafka.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose encrypted-connection failures and reduces the risk of expired, missing, or incorrectly configured certificates when applications connect to CockroachDB.

Skill for Cursor ✓ vendor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the cockroachdb plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure client-certificate authentication, manage certificate authorities, rotate certificates, troubleshoot SSL/TLS errors, and set up certificate-based access for changefeeds to Kafka.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachdb/cursor-plugin/managing-tls-certificates
About the project

CockroachDB Plugin for Cursor connects the Cursor coding agent to CockroachDB clusters for database work such as exploring schemas, writing SQL, debugging queries, and managing distributed clusters. It supports self-hosted and CockroachDB Cloud connections, and its catalogue add-ons provide database-focused agents, skills, rules, and instructions.

cockroachdb/cursor-plugin · 2 stars · on GitHub

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 cockroachdb/cursor-plugin --skill managing-tls-certificates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cursor-plugin

Made for: Cursor.

Or install cockroachdb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,591 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00061 $0.02591
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01036
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00259

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2b3d865cfafc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-tls-certificates 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 2mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to managing-tls-certificates — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cockroachdb-security-and-governance/managing-tls-certificates/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing TLS Certificates

Manages TLS certificates for CockroachDB clusters, covering CA certificate downloads, client certificate authentication setup, certificate rotation, and troubleshooting common SSL/TLS connection errors. Addresses both CockroachDB Cloud (always-on TLS) and self-hosted certificate lifecycle management.

When to Use This Skill

  • Troubleshooting SSL/TLS connection errors from application clients (DBeaver, TypeORM, psql, Go, Python, Java)
  • Setting up client certificate authentication on CockroachDB Cloud
  • Uploading a custom Client CA to a Cloud cluster
  • Rotating or renewing certificates (Cloud or self-hosted)
  • Configuring mTLS for CDC changefeeds to Kafka
  • Downloading or locating the CA certificate for a Cloud cluster

Prerequisites

CockroachDB Cloud:

  • ccloud CLI authenticated (ccloud auth login)
  • Cloud Console access for CA certificate download
  • Cluster Admin role for client CA configuration

Self-hosted:

  • cockroach cert CLI available
  • Admin access to cluster nodes
  • OpenSSL for certificate inspection and generation

Verify access:

# Cloud
ccloud auth whoami
ccloud cluster list

# Self-hosted — check existing certificates
cockroach cert list --certs-dir=<certs-directory>

Configuration Decisions

Before proceeding, determine the user's deployment model. Ask which option applies, then follow only the relevant sections below.

Decision 1 — Deployment model:

  • CockroachDB Cloud: TLS is always on and the cluster CA is managed by Cockroach Labs. Follow Part 1 for CA download, client certificate auth, and Cloud certificate rotation.
  • Self-hosted: Full manual certificate lifecycle management (CA, node, and client certificates). Follow Part 2 for certificate creation, rotation, and management.

Parts 3 (Troubleshooting) and 4 (mTLS for CDC) apply to both deployment models.

Steps

Part 1: CockroachDB Cloud TLS

Follow this part if the user selected CockroachDB Cloud in Decision 1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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. 2mo ago First seen · 303 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 2b3d865cfafc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

managing-tls-certificates is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachdb/cursor-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,591 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to managing-tls-certificates, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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