provisioning-cluster-for-production

provisioning-cluster-for-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (3,028 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to creating and preparing a CockroachDB cluster for production use. It covers different deployment methods, including self-hosted servers, Kubernetes, and managed cloud provisioning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a cluster, move a development or staging setup toward production, choose a deployment tier, size hardware, and configure production safeguards.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose suitable infrastructure and settings before going live, when mistakes in sizing or configuration are more costly to correct.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create a cluster, move a development or staging setup toward production, choose a deployment tier, size hardware, and configure production safeguards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills/provisioning-cluster-for-production
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 provisioning-cluster-for-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,028 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 $0.00096 $0.03028
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01514
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00606
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00303

Measured 11d ago against content hash 42b2ad18642a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

provisioning-cluster-for-production 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 11d 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://binaries.cockroachdb.com/cockroach-v<version>.linux-amd64.tgz | tar -xz
Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/cockroachdb-operations-and-lifecycle/provisioning-cluster-for-production/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.

Provisioning Cluster for Production

Guides CockroachDB cluster creation and production deployment configuration. Before providing procedures, this skill gathers context to deliver tier-appropriate provisioning steps and production hardening guidance.

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating a new CockroachDB cluster
  • Preparing a development/staging cluster for production go-live
  • Validating hardware and configuration for production readiness
  • Choosing the right deployment tier and sizing

For post-deployment health checks: Use reviewing-cluster-health. For ongoing settings management: Use managing-cluster-settings. For capacity changes after deployment: Use managing-cluster-capacity.


Step 1: Gather Context

Required Context

Question Options Why It Matters
Deployment tier? Self-Hosted, Advanced, BYOC, Standard, Basic Completely different provisioning procedures
Environment? Production, Staging, Development Determines hardware sizing and configuration rigor

Additional Context (by tier)

If Self-Hosted:

Question Options Why It Matters
Platform? Bare metal, VMs (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes Changes installation and start commands
If Kubernetes? Operator (recommended), Helm, Manual StatefulSet Determines deployment method
Node count? 3 (minimum), 5, 9+ Affects topology and replication
Multi-region? Yes (how many regions), No Requires locality flags and topology planning
Expected workload? OLTP, mixed OLTP/analytics, write-heavy Affects hardware sizing
Security requirements? TLS required, encryption at rest, CMEK Determines certificate and encryption setup

If Advanced or BYOC:

Question Options Why It Matters
Provisioning method? Cloud Console, Cloud API, Terraform Determines procedure
Cloud provider? AWS, GCP, Azure Affects region selection and networking
Node count and size? e.g., 3 nodes x 8 vCPUs Determines initial capacity

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. 11d ago First seen · 339 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 42b2ad18642a

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provisioning-cluster-for-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachlabs/cockroachdb-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 3,028 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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