ali-esa-acme-ssl-skill

ali-esa-acme-ssl-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,738 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An automation guide for obtaining and renewing HTTPS certificates using Alibaba Cloud ESA DNS and acme.sh, a certificate-management tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to issue certificates for a domain and its wildcard subdomain, write the required DNS records, and optionally install the certificates in Nginx.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes when proving domain ownership through DNS, including missing or wrongly placed verification records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is sudo bash scripts/install_cron.sh \.

Good fit Use it to issue certificates for a domain and its wildcard subdomain, write the required DNS records, and optionally install the certificates in Nginx.

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Install

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lord1egypt/awesome-skill-forge/acme-ssl-automation-for-alibaba-cloud-esa-dns

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,738 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00089 $0.01738
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00869
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00174

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6b4b49f90552, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ali-esa-acme-ssl-skill scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo bash scripts/install_cron.sh \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Check current public egress IP: `curl -s ifconfig.me`
community/clawhub/a/acme-ssl-automation-for-alibaba-cloud-esa-dns/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ESA DNS + ACME Certificate Automation

Design Decision (Important)

This skill combines acme.sh + ESA DNS into a single integrated flow, not split into two skills.

Reasons:

  1. The two steps are tightly coupled: ACME challenge tokens must be written to ESA DNS immediately.
  2. The most common user errors are "validation failed / record written to the wrong panel" — an integrated flow minimizes mistakes.
  3. Wildcard scenarios often produce multiple TXT values for the same FQDN; splitting would increase manual synchronization cost.

If there is significant demand for "DNS-only operations" in the future, a separate esa-dns-records helper skill can be extracted.


When to Trigger

Trigger when any of the following apply:

  • Domain NS records are on *.atrustdns.com (ESA-hosted DNS)
  • User says "issue certificate with acme.sh", "Let's Encrypt", "DNS-01"
  • Error: No TXT record found at _acme-challenge...
  • Need to issue example.com + *.example.com together
  • Need to auto-write ESA DNS records and install to Nginx

Supported Environment

  • Linux hosts (recommended: Ubuntu tested)
  • System-level Nginx (LNMP tested)
  • Docker/containerized environments are not supported
  • Not tested on Windows/macOS

Prerequisites

Install acme.sh from the official project before using this skill, and review the installation method you choose instead of piping remote scripts directly to a shell:

This skill expects acme.sh to be available on PATH. The script also falls back to ~/.acme.sh/acme.sh if present.

Requirements:

  • Credentials via ALIYUN_AK / ALIYUN_SK or ALIBABACLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID / ALIBABACLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET
  • Optional ESA region hint via ALIYUN_ESA_REGION / ALIBABACLOUD_ESA_REGION / ESA_REGION or --region
  • STS token is supported via ALIYUN_SECURITY_TOKEN, ALIBABACLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN, or --sts-token
  • If the user provides credentials directly in OpenClaw chat/TUI as plain id / secret / token values without env names, treat them as generic Alibaba Cloud AccessKeyId / AccessKeySecret / SecurityToken and pass them to --ak / --sk / --sts-token. Do not block on whether the user said Aliyun or Alibaba Cloud; let the script auto-detect the ESA region/site.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 171 lines · 89 tokens per session scan B 6b4b49f90552

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ali-esa-acme-ssl-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,738 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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