ansible

ansible is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 18 tokens per session (386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automation tool for configuring servers and network devices using YAML playbooks, which are files describing the desired setup. It connects to targets over SSH without requiring a separate agent on them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for installing software, editing configuration, starting services, provisioning servers, and automating network-device setup.
Why use it?
It replaces repeated manual server setup with repeatable instructions that can be run again when needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for installing software, editing configuration, starting services, provisioning servers, and automating network-device setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/ansible
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 G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill ansible
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 386 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 $0.00018 $0.00386
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 9d ago against content hash 229eb8027c31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ansible 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 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.

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/devops/ansible/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Ansible

Ansible is an agentless automation tool. It handles Configuration Management (installing Nginx, editing configs). 2025 sees the Automation Platform 2.5 unified UI and AI Lightspeed assistance.

When to Use

  • Configuration Mgmt: Terraform creates the VM, Ansible installs the software inside it.
  • Agentless: No software to install on targets. Needs only SSH.
  • Network Automation: Configuring Routers/Switches.

Quick Start

# playbook.yml
- name: Configure Webservers
  hosts: web
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: Install Nginx
      ansible.builtin.apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present

    - name: Start Service
      ansible.builtin.service:
        name: nginx
        state: started

Core Concepts

Inventory

List of hosts (hosts.ini or YAML). Can be dynamic (AWS plugin).

Playbooks

YAML files defining the desired state.

Roles / Collections

Reusable units of code. Download from Ansible Galaxy.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use Collections: The modern packaging format. ansible.builtin is better than short modules.
  • Use ansible-lint: Enforce best practices.
  • Idempotency: Ensure running a playbook twice produces the same result without errors.

Don't:

  • Don't use shell module: Unless absolutely necessary. Use specific modules (user, file, apt) for key tasks.

References

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 · 64 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 229eb8027c31

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ansible is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 386 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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