gcloud

gcloud is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Command-line tools for managing Google Cloud Platform from a terminal. The gcloud command handles login, project settings, local credentials, and deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to authenticate, switch between GCP projects and accounts, deploy applications to Cloud Run or App Engine, and connect to GKE clusters.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform common GCP setup and deployment tasks manually in the web console.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to authenticate, switch between GCP projects and accounts, deploy applications to Cloud Run or App Engine, and connect to GKE clusters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/gcloud
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill gcloud
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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 $0.00016 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 9d ago against content hash 08683663c572, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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/gcloud/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Google Cloud CLI (gcloud)

The gcloud CLI is part of the Google Cloud SDK. It manages authentication, local configuration, and developer workflows for GCP.

When to Use

  • App Engine / Cloud Run: gcloud app deploy and gcloud run deploy are the standard ways to ship code.
  • Kubernetes: gcloud container clusters get-credentials is essential for GKE access.
  • Auth: gcloud auth login sets up Application Default Credentials (ADC).

Quick Start

# Initialize
gcloud init

# Authenticate for local code (ADC)
gcloud auth application-default login

# Deploy to Cloud Run
gcloud run deploy my-service --source .

Core Concepts

Components

Installable modules. kubectl, beta, gke-gcloud-auth-plugin. gcloud components install kubectl

Configurations

Use named configurations to switch between accounts/projects. gcloud config configurations create dev

Alpha / Beta

GCP releases features rapidly. Many commands live under gcloud beta.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use ADC: For local development, application-default login is the correct way to auth your local Python/Node scripts.
  • Use gcloud config set project: Don't pass --project to every command. Set the context.
  • Scripting: Use --format="json" and jq for reliable automation.

Don't:

  • Don't use Service Account Keys locally: They are risky. Use User Credentials (ADC) for local dev.

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 · 60 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 08683663c572

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gcloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 389 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.