configuring-private-connectivity

configuring-private-connectivity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,227 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for private network connections between CockroachDB Cloud and your application or external services. These connections keep database traffic off the public internet using services such as AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure Private Link, or VPC peering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect an application network privately to CockroachDB, let change streams reach services such as Kafka privately, or automate the setup with Terraform.
Why use it?
It helps prevent public exposure of database traffic and diagnoses common connection or domain-name lookup problems with private endpoints.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to connect an application network privately to CockroachDB, let change streams reach services such as Kafka privately, or automate the setup with Terraform.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills/configuring-private-connectivity
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 cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills --skill configuring-private-connectivity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,227 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00071 $0.03227
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01614
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00323

Measured 9d ago against content hash 523ee33d3a10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-private-connectivity scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://cockroachlabs.cloud/api/v1/clusters/<cluster-id>/networking/private-endpoint-services" \
Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/cockroachdb-security-and-governance/configuring-private-connectivity/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Private Connectivity

Configures private network connectivity for CockroachDB Cloud clusters to eliminate public internet exposure for database traffic. Covers ingress private endpoints (AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure Private Link), egress private endpoints for outbound connections to external services, and VPC peering.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up private endpoints to eliminate public internet exposure for database connections
  • Configuring egress private endpoints for CDC changefeeds to Confluent Kafka or other external services
  • Establishing VPC peering between a CockroachDB Cloud cluster and application VPCs
  • Troubleshooting DNS resolution issues with private endpoints
  • Resolving "stuck pending" or connection failure errors with private endpoints
  • Automating private connectivity setup with Terraform

Prerequisites

  • CockroachDB Cloud cluster — Standard or Advanced plan (VPC peering requires Advanced)
  • ccloud CLI authenticated with Cluster Admin role
  • Cloud provider access:
    • AWS: IAM permissions to create VPC endpoints, modify DNS, and manage security groups
    • GCP: Permissions to create Private Service Connect endpoints and DNS records
    • Azure: Permissions to create private endpoints and manage DNS zones
  • Cluster ID and cloud provider details from ccloud cluster info

Verify access:

ccloud auth whoami
ccloud cluster info <cluster-name> -o json

See ccloud commands reference for full command syntax.

Configuration Decisions

Before proceeding, determine which connectivity types and cloud provider apply to the user's environment. Ask which options are relevant, then follow only the corresponding sections below.

Decision 1 — Connectivity type(s) needed:

  • Ingress private endpoints: Applications connect to CockroachDB over a private network path (AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure Private Link). Most common use case.
  • Egress private endpoints: CockroachDB connects outbound to external services (e.g., Confluent Kafka for CDC) over a private path.
  • VPC peering: Direct network connection between the application VPC and the CockroachDB Cloud VPC. Requires Advanced plan.
  • Combination: Multiple connectivity types can be configured together.

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 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. 9d ago First seen · 339 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 523ee33d3a10

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configuring-private-connectivity is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,227 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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