cloud-architect

A cloud-architecture planning skill for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, covering system design, migrations, security, costs, operations, and disaster recovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design cloud systems, plan migrations, apply the Well-Architected Framework, estimate costs, improve multi-cloud setups, or prepare disaster-recovery plans.
Why use it?
It organizes the decisions needed to move or run applications in the cloud while checking reliability, connectivity, security, and spending.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/claude-skills/cloud-architect
Any agent
npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill cloud-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,809 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00071 $0.01809
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00905
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00181

Measured yesterday against content hash ddf5e3ca3d90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-architect 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/cloud-architect/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Architect

Core Workflow

  1. Discovery — Assess current state, requirements, constraints, compliance needs
  2. Design — Select services, design topology, plan data architecture
  3. Security — Implement zero-trust, identity federation, encryption
  4. Cost Model — Right-size resources, reserved capacity, auto-scaling
  5. Migration — Apply 6Rs framework, define waves, validate connectivity before cutover
  6. Operate — Set up monitoring, automation, continuous optimization

Workflow Validation Checkpoints

After Design: Confirm every component has a redundancy strategy and no single points of failure exist in the topology.

Before Migration cutover: Validate VPC peering or connectivity is fully established:

# AWS: confirm peering connection is Active before proceeding
aws ec2 describe-vpc-peering-connections \
  --filters "Name=status-code,Values=active"

# Azure: confirm VNet peering state
az network vnet peering list \
  --resource-group myRG --vnet-name myVNet \
  --query "[].{Name:name,State:peeringState}"

After Migration: Verify application health and routing:

# AWS: check target group health in ALB
aws elbv2 describe-target-health \
  --target-group-arn arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:...

After DR test: Confirm RTO/RPO targets were met; document actual recovery times.

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
AWS Services references/aws.md EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Well-Architected Framework
Azure Services references/azure.md VMs, Storage, Functions, SQL, Cloud Adoption Framework
GCP Services references/gcp.md Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, BigQuery
Multi-Cloud references/multi-cloud.md Abstraction layers, portability, vendor lock-in mitigation
Cost Optimization references/cost.md Reserved instances, spot, right-sizing, FinOps practices

Constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. yesterday First seen · 219 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ddf5e3ca3d90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,250 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,809 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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