gcloud

A guide for using Google Cloud’s gcloud command-line tool. Google Cloud is a platform for running applications and managing services such as virtual machines, containers, and storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or configure gcloud, sign in, manage projects, and deploy or operate Google Cloud services.
Why use it?
It helps developers configure access and manage cloud resources from scripts or a terminal instead of relying only on a web interface.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/einverne/dotfiles/gcloud
Any agent
npx skills add einverne/dotfiles --skill gcloud
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/einverne/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,355 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00075 $0.05355
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02678
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.01071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00536

Measured 2d ago against content hash 51e9ec308e5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

gcloud scanned grade D with 3 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

# 2. ~/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-cli-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
claude/skills/gcloud/SKILL.md · 900 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 900 lines · 75 tokens per session scan D 51e9ec308e5f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gcloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository einverne/dotfiles (121 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 5,355 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, 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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