iam

A guide to Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), which controls who can do what on cloud resources. It covers user access, service accounts for applications, temporary conditions, and command-line use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write access policies, grant roles, create service accounts, configure workload identity, add conditions, and review existing permissions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid giving people or applications more access than they need and reduces reliance on risky service-account key files.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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 $0.00106 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00069

Measured yesterday against content hash 8bd46744c8bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iam 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/iam/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

IAM — Identity and Access Management

Control who (identity) can do what (role) on which GCP resource. Always least-privilege.

Principles

  1. Least privilege — grant the minimum role needed. Prefer predefined roles over basic roles. Never grant roles/owner or roles/editor programmatically.
  2. Service accounts for workloads — not user accounts. Use Workload Identity to avoid SA key files.
  3. IAM Conditions — scope bindings by resource, time, or request attribute where possible.
  4. Audit regularlygcloud projects get-iam-policy to review bindings; remove stale grants.

Core Patterns

Grant a predefined role

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID \
  --member="serviceAccount:[email protected]" \
  --role="roles/run.invoker"

Create a service account

gcloud iam service-accounts create SA_NAME \
  --display-name="Description" \
  --project PROJECT_ID

List effective permissions on a resource

gcloud projects get-iam-policy PROJECT_ID \
  --flatten="bindings[].members" \
  --format="table(bindings.role,bindings.members)"

IAM Condition (time-bound access)

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID \
  --member="user:[email protected]" \
  --role="roles/viewer" \
  --condition="expression=request.time < timestamp('2026-12-31T00:00:00Z'),title=temp-access"

Never Do

  • Grant roles/owner or roles/editor to service accounts or automation
  • Create SA key files when Workload Identity is available
  • Share service account keys across environments

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. yesterday First seen · 70 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 8bd46744c8bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

iam is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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