managing-dns

managing-dns is a skill for Claude Code from iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,476 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

DNS management for DigitalOcean domains. DNS is the system that connects names such as example.com and subdomains to servers and other services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add domains, create or update A and CNAME records, configure subdomains, and set up MX, SPF, or DKIM email records.
Why use it?
It helps avoid manually piecing together records needed for websites, email, subdomains, and traffic routing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the digitalocean-skills plugin — 9 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to add domains, create or update A and CNAME records, configure subdomains, and set up MX, SPF, or DKIM email records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills/managing-dns
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 iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills --skill managing-dns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install digitalocean-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00050 $0.01476
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00738
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00148

Measured 11d ago against content hash f74aa8a9682e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-dns scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_API_TOKEN" \
skills/managing-dns/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing DNS

Configure DigitalOcean DNS for domains, subdomains, and common patterns like email and CDN integration.

When to Use

  • Adding domains to DigitalOcean
  • Creating/updating DNS records
  • Setting up subdomains
  • Email configuration (MX, SPF, DKIM)
  • User mentions: "DNS", "domain", "A record", "CNAME", "subdomain"

Record Type Reference

Type Use For Example
A IPv4 address @ -> 192.0.2.1
AAAA IPv6 address @ -> 2001:db8::1
CNAME Alias to another name www -> example.com
MX Mail servers @ -> mail.example.com
TXT Verification, SPF, DKIM SPF record
NS Nameservers Custom nameservers
SRV Service discovery SIP, XMPP
CAA Certificate authority Let's Encrypt authorization

Common DNS Patterns

Pattern 1: Basic Website

@ (root)     A       -> <droplet-ip>
www          CNAME   -> @

Pattern 2: Load-Balanced Site

@            A       -> <load-balancer-ip>
www          CNAME   -> @

Pattern 3: Multi-Environment

@            A       -> <prod-lb-ip>
www          CNAME   -> @
staging      A       -> <staging-ip>
dev          A       -> <dev-ip>
api          A       -> <api-lb-ip>
api-staging  CNAME   -> staging

Pattern 4: Email Configuration

@            MX 10   -> mail.example.com
@            MX 20   -> mail2.example.com
@            TXT     -> "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all"
mail._domainkey TXT  -> "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=..."
_dmarc       TXT     -> "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=..."

Pattern 5: CDN Integration

cdn          CNAME   -> cdn123.cloudflare.com
assets       CNAME   -> d123.cloudfront.net

The Process

1. Add Domain

domain-create:
  Name: example.com
  IPAddress: <primary-ip> (optional, creates A record)

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

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 · 212 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A f74aa8a9682e

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managing-dns is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamnolanhu/digitalocean-skills (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,476 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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