GCP Security Checklist

GCP Security Checklist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 40 tokens per session (825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pass/fail checklist for securing Google Cloud infrastructure changes across identity, networks, data protection, and monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before significant GCP changes involving resources, IAM, service accounts, network rules, encryption, secrets, or audit logging.
Why use it?
It catches common GCP security mistakes before a change is proposed for deployment, including broad access, exposed networks, and unsafe secret handling.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it before significant GCP changes involving resources, IAM, service accounts, network rules, encryption, secrets, or audit logging.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/gcp-security-checklist
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.

Any agent
npx skills add niels-emmer/myace --skill gcp-security-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 825 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00040 $0.00825
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 9d ago against content hash b3bb86fac888, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

GCP Security Checklist 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 9d 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.

collections/additional/gcp/skills/gcp-security-checklist/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

A fast, consistent pass over a GCP infrastructure change to catch the GCP-recommended security-practice violations that are easy to miss in a large plan or diff — before it ever reaches the point of asking a human to approve an apply. This is the GCP-specific companion to iac-expert's generic iac-security-checklist, adding the GCP constructs (IAM, service accounts, VPC firewall rules, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Security Command Center, Cloud Audit Logs) that the generic checklist can't name.

When to use it

Run this against every nontrivial GCP change (new resources, modified network/identity/access configuration) before handing it off for review or requesting apply approval. For a trivial change (a label fix, a variable rename with no resource impact), a quick skim is enough.

Checklist

Mark each item PASS, FAIL, or N/A. Every FAIL needs either a fix or a documented exception (see iac-expert's exception-documentation skill) before the change moves forward.

Identity and access

  • Service-to-service and CI/CD auth uses service accounts and Workload Identity Federation, not long-lived service-account keys.
  • Any IAM role is scoped to least privilege (specific permissions/ resources, not roles/owner/*) and uses Google-managed (predefined) roles where possible.
  • Human access is behind IAM with MFA — no shared accounts, no standing service-account keys in code or config.
  • Secrets that must exist live in Secret Manager, referenced by ID — never embedded as a literal in .tf, a tfvars file, or a module default.

Network

  • No resource has a public IP, public endpoint, or 0.0.0.0/0-equivalent VPC firewall rule unless it's a documented exception.
  • Workloads run in private networking; Google-managed services are reached via Private Service Connect (or VPC peering) where supported, keeping traffic off the public internet.
  • Inter-service traffic that could stay on a private VPC does; VPC firewall rules default to deny and open only what's needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 9d ago First seen · 80 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A b3bb86fac888

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GCP Security Checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 825 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.