terraform

terraform is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from greedychipmunk/agent-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (707 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using Terraform, a tool that defines and manages infrastructure with configuration files. It covers setup, providers, variables, backends, state, workspaces, and the main command workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or select Terraform versions, configure providers and backends, run initialization, validation, planning, applying, formatting, and state operations.
Why use it?
It provides a structured reference for planning infrastructure changes and managing Terraform state safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to install or select Terraform versions, configure providers and backends, run initialization, validation, planning, applying, formatting, and state operations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/terraform
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 greedychipmunk/agent-skills --skill terraform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greedychipmunk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 707 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00033 $0.00707
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 9d ago against content hash 77b168e0fec5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terraform 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.

terraform/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terraform

Intent Router

Request Reference Load When
Install tool, first-time setup, tfenv resources/install-and-setup.md User needs to install Terraform or manage versions
Provider config, variables, backends resources/configuration.md User needs provider blocks, variable files, or backend setup
CLI commands, workflows resources/command-cookbook.md User needs init/plan/apply/destroy patterns or state commands
State management, remote backends resources/state-and-backends.md User asks about state files, locking, or remote backends

Quick Start

# 1. Initialize working directory (downloads providers)
terraform init

# 2. Preview changes (always run before apply)
terraform plan

# 3. Apply changes (requires confirmation)
terraform apply

# 4. Destroy infrastructure (DANGEROUS — requires confirmation)
terraform destroy

Core Command Tracks

  • Initialize: terraform init — downloads providers, sets up backend
  • Validate & format: terraform validate, terraform fmt -recursive
  • Preview: terraform plan [-out=tfplan] — no changes made
  • Apply: terraform apply [tfplan] — creates/updates resources
  • Inspect state: terraform state list, terraform state show <resource>
  • Workspaces: terraform workspace list, terraform workspace select <name>

Safety Guardrails

  • Always run terraform plan before terraform apply — review the diff carefully.
  • terraform destroy is irreversible — confirm resource list before proceeding.
  • Never commit terraform.tfstate or .tfvars files containing secrets to version control.
  • Use -target sparingly; it can leave state inconsistent.
  • Enable state locking on remote backends to prevent concurrent modifications.
# Inspect managed resources in state before making changes
terraform state list
terraform state show aws_instance.web

Workflow

  1. Write or edit .tf configuration files.
  2. Run terraform fmt to normalize formatting.
  3. Run terraform validate to catch syntax errors.
  4. Run terraform plan and review the proposed changes.
  5. Run terraform apply only after reviewing the plan.
  6. Commit updated terraform.lock.hcl but never terraform.tfstate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

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.

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 · 84 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 77b168e0fec5

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terraform is a skill published in the GitHub repository greedychipmunk/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 707 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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