managing-tls-certificates

managing-tls-certificates is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to securing connections to CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database, with TLS certificates. TLS encrypts data in transit, while client certificates can verify which applications are allowed to connect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure client-certificate login, download or replace CA certificates, set up mutual TLS for Kafka changefeeds, and troubleshoot SSL/TLS errors from database tools and applications.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose connection failures and manage certificates over their full lifecycle, including renewal and replacement. It also explains differences between CockroachDB Cloud and self-hosted clusters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to configure client-certificate login, download or replace CA certificates, set up mutual TLS for Kafka changefeeds, and troubleshoot SSL/TLS errors from database tools and applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills/managing-tls-certificates
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills --skill managing-tls-certificates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 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 $0.00061 $0.02591
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00259

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2b3d865cfafc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

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. 12d ago First seen · 303 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 2b3d865cfafc

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managing-tls-certificates is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,591 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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