Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills/do-iac-and-deploymentWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00090 | $0.02933 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00045 | $0.01466 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00587 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00293 |
Grade A, and why
do-iac-and-deployment 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DigitalOcean Infrastructure-as-Code and Deployment
When to use
- Greenfield project — picking an IaC approach for DigitalOcean infrastructure.
- Bringing console-built resources into code.
- Designing a CI/CD pipeline for app and infrastructure changes.
- Hardening a release for safe rollout and rollback.
- Reviewing an existing IaC repo for drift, secret leaks, or state hygiene.
IaC tool selection
| Tool | Pick when |
|---|---|
Terraform / OpenTofu (digitalocean/digitalocean >= 2.40) |
Default choice. Manages all DigitalOcean resources: Droplets, DOKS, databases, Spaces, networking, DNS, firewalls. Largest community and module support. |
| App Platform App Spec YAML | Your entire workload runs on App Platform. Spec-driven; deployed with doctl apps create or doctl apps update. No state file to manage. |
| doctl scripting | Quick one-off operations, seed scripts, or where you need the CLI's full feature set (e.g., DOKS kubeconfig retrieval). Not suitable as a primary IaC tool — no drift detection, no state. |
Pulumi (pulumi-digitalocean provider) |
Team strongly prefers a general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go) over HCL. Same coverage as Terraform but smaller community. |
| Ansible | Configuration management inside Droplets; complements Terraform for post-provisioning setup. Not a substitute for resource IaC. |
Mixed tools are acceptable with clean boundaries: Terraform for infrastructure (VPC, Droplets, databases, DOKS clusters), App Spec YAML for App Platform workloads, Ansible for in-guest configuration.
Terraform state management
- Remote backend: S3-compatible backend pointing at a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket. Spaces supports the AWS S3 backend in Terraform with a few configuration overrides.
terraform {
backend "s3" {
endpoint = "https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
region = "us-east-1" # Required by S3 backend; not meaningful for DO
bucket = "my-tf-state"
key = "prod/terraform.tfstate"
skip_credentials_validation = true
skip_metadata_api_check = true
skip_region_validation = true
force_path_style = true
}
}
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 238 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A f53e07ba37f4
do-iac-and-deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills (8 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,933 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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