ia-terraform

ia-terraform is a skill for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,657 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of terraform, MIT.

A guide to Terraform and OpenTofu configuration, modules, state, testing, and HCL review. Terraform and OpenTofu are tools for defining and managing infrastructure with configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing infrastructure modules, provider settings, variables, resources, tests, or state migrations.
Why use it?
It provides consistent structure and naming for infrastructure code and helps avoid configuration and state-management mistakes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: paths in frontmatter.

Part of the whetstone plugin — 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing infrastructure modules, provider settings, variables, resources, tests, or state migrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/whetstone/ia-terraform
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 iliaal/whetstone --skill ia-terraform
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 22 commands, 19 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,657 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00051 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00166

Measured 3d ago against content hash e1d5c2d6c241, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-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

This is a copy

100% identical to terraform — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-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 e1d5c2d6c241
  2. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 50fecc595fea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ia-terraform is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (33 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to terraform, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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