gcp-ops

A guide to operating Google Cloud services reliably in production. It covers service targets, monitoring, alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and incident response.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define availability and performance targets, create alerts, monitor latency and errors, write runbooks, and assess production readiness.
Why use it?
It helps teams detect failures, understand what healthy service looks like, and prepare repeatable recovery steps before releasing to users.

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/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin/gcp-ops
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin --skill gcp-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 705 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 $0.00119 $0.00705
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1e5ff40b6478, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gcp-ops 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 2d 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.

skills/gcp-ops/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

GCP Operations / SRE

Tier 3 — cross-cutting SRE persona. Owns observability, alerting, runbooks, and production readiness for all GCP services.

Gate Responsibility

Operational Readiness Gate — blocks release to production if:

  • No SLO defined for the service (availability, latency, error rate)
  • No alerting policy tied to SLO breach
  • No runbook for the primary failure modes
  • No dashboard covering the golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation)
  • Log-based metrics not configured for key error paths

Golden Signals (per GCP service)

Signal Cloud Run GKE BigQuery Cloud Storage
Latency request latency p50/p99 pod request latency query duration object read latency
Traffic request count RPS per pod bytes processed object operations
Errors 5xx rate pod restart count job failure count 4xx/5xx rate
Saturation instance count vs max node CPU/mem slot utilization

Runbook Template

# Runbook: <Service> — <Failure Mode>
Last updated: YYYY-MM-DD
Owner: gcp-ops

## Symptoms
<What alerts fire, what users see>

## Diagnosis Steps
1. Check Cloud Logging: <query>
2. Check Cloud Monitoring: <dashboard link>
3. Check GCP status page: https://status.cloud.google.com

## Remediation
<Step-by-step fix>

## Escalation
<Who to page, when, how>

## Post-Incident
<What to update in retrospect>

References

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 1e5ff40b6478

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gcp-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 705 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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