digitalocean-dns-zones

digitalocean-dns-zones is a skill for Claude Code from Goodsmileduck/claude-registry. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for managing DigitalOcean DNS zones and records, which control how domain names point to services. It works with DigitalOcean commands, its web API, and Terraform configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating, changing, and deleting DNS records; migrating zones; configuring DNS-based certificate checks; and choosing between command-line, API, and Terraform workflows.
Why use it?
It helps avoid DNS migration and configuration mistakes involving root-domain aliases, fully qualified names, wildcard certificates, and account-wide access tokens.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the digitalocean-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Creating, changing, and deleting DNS records; migrating zones; configuring DNS-based certificate checks; and choosing between command-line, API, and Terraform workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goodsmileduck/claude-registry/digitalocean-dns-zones
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 Goodsmileduck/claude-registry --skill digitalocean-dns-zones
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Goodsmileduck/claude-registry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install digitalocean-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,668 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 $0.00142 $0.02668
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01334
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00267

Measured 11d ago against content hash 50ba9c66f511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

digitalocean-dns-zones 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/do_dns_tf_lint.py, scripts/test_do_dns_tf_lint.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/digitalocean-skills/skills/digitalocean-dns-zones/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DigitalOcean DNS Zones

Operational skill for managing DigitalOcean DNS through doctl, the REST API, and the Terraform provider. Covers the traps that appear most often when migrating zones in or out of Cloudflare — especially apex CNAME handling, trailing-dot semantics, and the account-wide token model that differs from Cloudflare's scoped tokens.

When to invoke

Symptoms:

  • Apex hostname (example.com) refuses to take a CNAME — the provider errors or the record silently misbehaves.
  • A Terraform CNAME resolves to a doubled FQDN like api.example.com.example.com.
  • Need a wildcard cert (*.example.com) with a DNS-01 ACME challenge on a DO-hosted zone.
  • Migrating a zone to or from Cloudflare and unsure which records need manual attention.
  • Deciding whether to use doctl, the raw API, or the Terraform provider for a given task.
  • Token handling for DO DNS in CI — needs guidance on secret management.

Cross-cutting rules

These rules apply to every section below. Read them before acting.

  1. DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN is account-wide. Unlike Cloudflare, DigitalOcean has no zone-scoped token model. A token that can edit DNS can touch every domain in the account. Treat it as a high-value secret: store it in a secrets manager or CI secret, never echo it into shared shell history or CI logs. This is an explicit difference from the cloudflare-dns-zones skill's "scope tokens to the minimum" rule — on DigitalOcean you cannot scope below the account level.

  2. Domain before records. A domain entry (digitalocean_domain resource or doctl compute domain create) must exist before any record can be added. There is no "lazy create." The apex record uses name = "@" in both doctl and Terraform.

  3. No apex CNAME, no flattening. DigitalOcean has no ALIAS, ANAME, or CNAME flattening. A bare apex (example.com) must resolve to A or AAAA records. This is the most common trap when migrating from Cloudflare, which transparently flattens apex CNAMEs — that transparency disappears the moment you cut over nameservers to DO.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 208 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 50ba9c66f511

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digitalocean-dns-zones is a skill published in the GitHub repository Goodsmileduck/claude-registry (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,668 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.