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 ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks --skill ibm-cloudgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocksWrote 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/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/ibm-cloud)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/ibm-cloud"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/ibm-cloud/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/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/ibm-cloud"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/ibm-cloud.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 | $0.00093 | $0.01041 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.00416 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00208 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00104 |
Grade A, and why
ibmcloud-cli 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 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.
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 — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
IBM Cloud CLI (ibmcloud)
Command-focused router skill for senior engineers. Keep this file lightweight;
load companion .md files for specific command families.
Source scope:
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-getting-started
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-ibmcloud_cli
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-plug-ins
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cli?topic=cli-ibmcloud_commands_settings
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/iam?interface=ui&topic=iam-federated_id
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-shell?topic=cloud-shell-getting-started
- https://cloud.ibm.com/media/docs/downloads/IBM%20Cloud%20CLI%20quick%20reference.pdf
- https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpc-reference
Do not add service-specific command catalogs here. Add/maintain a focused
companion .md file instead.
Critical defaults
ibmcloud help
ibmcloud version
ibmcloud api
ibmcloud target
ibmcloud plugin list
Rules:
- Verify
ibmcloud targetbefore create/update/delete. - Use
ibmcloud login --ssofor federated humans. - Use
ibmcloud login --apikey @key_file_namefor automation. - Use
--output json/--output JSONfor scripting when supported. - Do not use
-f/--forceunless explicitly requested. - Use exact command help instead of guessing flags:
ibmcloud COMMAND -h.
Minimal workflow
# Install locally or use IBM Cloud Shell.
ibmcloud help
ibmcloud version
# Endpoint.
ibmcloud api cloud.ibm.com
ibmcloud api
# Login.
ibmcloud login
ibmcloud login --sso
ibmcloud login --apikey @key_file_name
# Targeting.
ibmcloud regions
ibmcloud target -r us-south -g Default
ibmcloud target
# Plug-ins.
ibmcloud plugin list
ibmcloud plugin repo-plugins
VPC infrastructure:
ibmcloud plugin install vpc-infrastructure
ibmcloud plugin update vpc-infrastructure
ibmcloud plugin list
ibmcloud is help
Load companion files
| File | Use for |
|---|---|
installing-and-updating-cli.md |
Install, verify, version, update, Cloud Shell. |
logging-in-and-targeting.md |
API endpoint, login, SSO, API keys, compute-resource login, target, logout. |
cli-configuration-and-output.md |
Global options, JSON output, quiet mode, trace, timeout, color, locale, config. |
plugin-management.md |
Plug-in repos, install, update, show, list, download, uninstall. |
resource-groups-and-account-context.md |
Resource groups, catalog, service instances, tags, IAM/API keys, users, billing basics. |
vpc-infrastructure-plugin.md |
vpc-infrastructure plug-in and ibmcloud is ... VPC infrastructure commands. |
What ships with it
6 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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 138 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 52b61aede51a
ibmcloud-cli 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 93 tokens to every session and 1,041 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
ibmcloud-cli compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ibmcloud-cliibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks | Skill | 28 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 93 | Claude Code, Codex |
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| gke-reliabilitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 85 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-workload-securitygoogle/skills | Skill | 22k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 171 | Claude Code, Codex |
| cloud-architectJeffallan/claude-skills | Skill | 12k | 7d ago | MIT | A | 71 | Claude Code |
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