infrastructure-as-code-ansible

infrastructure-as-code-ansible is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks. It costs 45 tokens per session (559 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A collection of Ansible guidance for creating, converting, debugging, and learning server automation. Ansible is a tool that uses instruction files to configure groups of computers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing playbooks and inventories, converting Bash or Dockerfile procedures, diagnosing SSH and module errors, and learning Ansible through incremental validation.
Why use it?
It directs work to the relevant workflow, helping with new projects, shell-script migrations, failed playbooks, and step-by-step setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Writing playbooks and inventories, converting Bash or Dockerfile procedures, diagnosing SSH and module errors, and learning Ansible through incremental validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks/infrastructure-as-code-ansible
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 infrastructure-as-code-ansible
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 559 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00045 $0.00559
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00056

Measured 11d ago against content hash 736aa5331a03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

infrastructure-as-code-ansible scanned grade B 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- SSH connections fail or sudo password is missing
ibm-bob/skills/infrastructure-as-code-ansible/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible Skills

This skill provides access to specialized Ansible workflows for automation tasks. When activated, you can leverage four focused sub-skills for different Ansible scenarios.

Available Workflows

Playbook Development

Use the playbook skill when:

  • Creating new playbooks, roles, or inventory files
  • Automating infrastructure with Ansible
  • Encountering YAML syntax errors, module failures, or variable precedence issues

Shell Script Conversion

Use the convert skill when:

  • Converting shell scripts to Ansible playbooks
  • Migrating bash automation, manual procedures, or Dockerfiles
  • Transforming imperative commands to declarative Ansible tasks

Debugging & Troubleshooting

Use the debug skill when:

  • Playbooks fail with UNREACHABLE, permission denied, or MODULE FAILURE errors
  • SSH connections fail or sudo password is missing
  • Encountering undefined variable or template rendering errors

Interactive Setup & Teaching

Use the interactive skill when:

  • Guiding someone through Ansible setup step-by-step
  • Starting a new Ansible project from scratch
  • Teaching Ansible through hands-on development with continuous validation

Quick Start

Core Principles

All Ansible skills follow these principles:

  • Idempotency: Operations can be run multiple times safely
  • Declarative: Define desired state, not imperative commands
  • FQCN: Use fully qualified collection names (e.g., ansible.builtin.copy)
  • Validation: Test with --check --diff before execution
  • Incremental: Build and test one component at a time

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 68 lines · 45 tokens per session scan B 736aa5331a03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

infrastructure-as-code-ansible is a skill published in the GitHub repository ibm-self-serve-assets/building-blocks (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 559 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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