gcloud

gcloud is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fmind/dot. It costs 42 tokens per session (745 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using the Google Cloud command-line tool to inspect and manage accounts, projects, permissions, APIs, billing, logs, and audits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for bounded Google Cloud administration and read-only investigation, including IAM checks, service settings, billing links, quotas, and logs.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of running a consequential cloud command against the wrong account, project, or billing context.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 745 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00042 $0.00745
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured yesterday against content hash 093d8c11dd72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gcloud 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/gcloud/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Cloud CLI

Use gcloud for bounded account, project, IAM, API, billing, logging, and audit operations. cloud-run owns deployment, terraform-stack owns provisioned infrastructure, and incident-response owns a live outage.

Workflow

  1. Resolve identity and scope: inspect the named configuration, account, project, and billing project; never activate another configuration just to make a command work.

    gcloud config configurations list --format=json
    gcloud config configurations describe <configuration> --format=json
    gcloud config get auth/impersonate_service_account --configuration <configuration>
    gcloud config get auth/access_token_file --configuration <configuration>
    gcloud projects describe <project-id> --format=json
    
  2. Pin every consequential call: pass --configuration, --account, --project, and --billing-project (plus --impersonate-service-account for an approved chain) so terminal defaults cannot redirect the operation.

  3. Start read-only: describe the resource, IAM policy, enabled services, billing linkage, quotas, and logs, bounded by project, resource, and time window.

  4. Plan the mutation: state the resource, before and after state, permissions, cost or quota impact, rollback, and verification command; API enablement, IAM, billing, deletion, and production changes need explicit authority.

  5. Apply minimally and verify: change only the named resource, then re-read it and its operation or audit status; separate local configuration, accepted request, completed operation, and user-visible outcome.

Gotchas

  • --quiet is not authority: it suppresses prompts; it neither makes an operation safe nor approves it.
  • Overrides replace the account: CLOUDSDK_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT, CLOUDSDK_AUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_FILE, and --impersonate-service-account change the effective principal; prove which is active first.
  • Failures are findings: on an auth, permission, or quota error report the missing principal, denied permission, or exhausted quota; do not switch configurations, broaden IAM, create keys, or move spend to another project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 47 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 093d8c11dd72

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gcloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dot (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 745 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.