Guidance for changing shell scripts, manual procedures, or Dockerfiles into Ansible playbooks. Ansible describes the desired end state of a computer, while a shell script runs commands in sequence.

Converting tasks such as creating directories, changing ownership, installing software, and configuring services into reusable Ansible tasks.

It helps preserve repeatable results when automation is run more than once and avoids hiding imperative commands inside Ansible's generic command runner.

convert — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by ibm-self-serve-assets

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 ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks --skill convert

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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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 1,391 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00033	$0.01391
Opus 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00556
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00278
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00139

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 650c31794084, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

convert scanned grade C with 2 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 2mo 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| `rm -rf` | `ansible.builtin.file` | `state: absent` |

Makes network callslowCapability

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

| `curl -O` | `ansible.builtin.get_url` | Use `checksum` for verification |

ibm-bob/skills/infrastructure-as-code-ansible/convert/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shell to Ansible Conversion

Shell scripts execute commands imperatively; Ansible declares desired state. Conversion means rethinking operations as state declarations, not translating commands line-by-line. The goal is idempotency: running twice produces identical results.

Core Principle: Don't wrap shell commands in Ansible's shell module. Find the module that achieves the same end state declaratively.

Place these in defaults/main.yml for easy override.

# Shell: imperative
mkdir -p /opt/app
chown app:app /opt/app

# Ansible: declarative
- ansible.builtin.file:
    path: /opt/app
    state: directory
    owner: app
    group: app
    mode: '0755'

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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.

2mo ago First seen · 173 lines · 33 tokens per session scan C 650c31794084

Subscribe to this mod's changes

convert is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks (28 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,391 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

DevOps and cloud

convert next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
convertibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks	Skill	28	yesterday	Apache-2.0	C	33	Claude Code, Codex
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	133k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	313k	3d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code
next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	103	Claude Code

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