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.
npx skills add greedychipmunk/agent-skills --skill ansiblegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greedychipmunk/agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/ansible)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/ansible"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/ansible/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/ansible"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/ansible.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.00894 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00447 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00179 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00089 |
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Ansible
Intent Router
| Request | Reference | Load When |
|---|---|---|
| Install tool, SSH setup, ansible.cfg | resources/install-and-setup.md |
User needs to install Ansible or configure control node |
| Inventory files, group_vars, host_vars | resources/inventory-and-variables.md |
User needs inventory structure or variable precedence |
| Playbook authoring, roles, modules | resources/playbook-patterns.md |
User needs play structure, task patterns, or common modules |
| CLI commands, vault, galaxy | resources/command-cookbook.md |
User needs ansible/ansible-playbook/ansible-vault/galaxy commands |
Quick Start
# 1. Define your inventory
cat > inventory.ini <<'EOF'
[web]
web1.example.com
web2.example.com
[db]
db1.example.com
EOF
# 2. Test connectivity (ad-hoc ping)
ansible all -i inventory.ini -m ping
# 3. Run a playbook
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini site.yml
# 4. Dry-run a playbook (check mode — no changes)
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini site.yml --check --diff
Core Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Control node | Machine where Ansible runs (requires Python; no agent needed on targets) |
| Managed node | Target host reached via SSH (Linux) or WinRM (Windows) |
| Inventory | List of managed nodes (INI, YAML, or dynamic script) |
| Playbook | YAML file defining ordered plays and tasks |
| Role | Reusable directory structure (tasks, handlers, templates, vars) |
| Module | Idempotent unit of work (copy, service, package, user, command…) |
| Collection | Packaged set of roles, modules, and plugins from Ansible Galaxy |
Safety Guardrails
- Always run with
--check --difffirst to preview changes without applying them. - Use
--limitto target a subset of hosts before running against all inventory. - Avoid
commandandshellmodules when an idempotent module exists. - Running as root (
become: true) requires explicit approval — confirm privilege escalation scope. - Protect secrets with
ansible-vault encrypt— never commit plaintext passwords.
What ships with it
4 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.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 038030b51706
ansible is a skill published in the GitHub repository greedychipmunk/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 894 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 2026-08-30.
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