terraform

terraform is a skill for Claude Code from iliaal/ai-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for Terraform and OpenTofu, tools that describe and manage cloud and other infrastructure from configuration files. It covers HCL, the configuration language they use, along with modules, tests, and state.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write and review Terraform or OpenTofu files, organise modules and variables, manage state migrations, configure providers, and work with tfvars and tftest files.
Why use it?
It helps keep infrastructure code organised and reduces mistakes in naming, block structure, secrets, dependency updates, and state changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: paths in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps write and review Terraform or OpenTofu files, organise modules and variables, manage state migrations, configure providers, and work with tfvars and tftest files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/ai-skills/terraform
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add iliaal/ai-skills --skill terraform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,655 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 $0.00049 $0.01655
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00166

Measured 3d ago against content hash c1c6c92df14c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/terraform/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terraform & OpenTofu

Working rules

  • Preserve state and resource addresses during refactoring; inspect the plan for unintended replacement.
  • Separate plan-only checks from apply-mode tests that create real infrastructure and incur cost.

File Organization & Naming

File Purpose
terraform.tf Terraform + provider version requirements
providers.tf Provider configurations
main.tf Primary resources and data sources
variables.tf Input variables (alphabetical)
outputs.tf Output values (alphabetical)
locals.tf Local values
  • Lowercase with underscores: web_api, not webAPI or web-api
  • Descriptive nouns excluding resource type: aws_instance.web_api not aws_instance.web_api_instance
  • Singular, not plural
  • this for singleton resources (one of that type per module)
  • Contextual variable prefixes: vpc_cidr_block not cidr

Block Ordering

Resources: count/for_each (blank line after) → arguments → nested blocks → tagsdepends_onlifecycle (last)

Variables: descriptiontypedefaultvalidationnullable

Every variable needs type + description. Every output needs description. Mark secrets sensitive = true.

Module Structure

Type Scope Example
Resource Module Single logical group VPC + subnets, SG + rules
Infrastructure Module Collection of resource modules Networking + compute for one region
Composition Complete infrastructure Spans regions/accounts
module-name/
├── main.tf, variables.tf, outputs.tf, versions.tf
├── examples/
│   ├── minimal/
│   └── complete/
└── tests/
    └── defaults.tftest.hcl

Keep modules small (single responsibility). examples/ double as documentation and integration test fixtures. Semantic versioning for all published modules.

count vs for_each

Scenario Use
Boolean toggle (create or skip) count = condition ? 1 : 0
Named/keyed items that may reorder for_each = toset(list) or map
Fixed identical replicas count = N

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago Changed · -15 lines c1c6c92df14c
  2. 12d ago First seen · 157 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 77a82993659e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

terraform is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/ai-skills (41 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,655 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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