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provision-with-maas

provision-with-maas is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NVIDIA/deepops. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A workflow for provisioning and reinstalling bare-metal servers and test virtual machines through Canonical MAAS, a tool that controls machine power, network booting, and operating-system images. It also maps deployed machines into DeepOps Ansible inventory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy Ubuntu machines, reinstall authorized targets, assign machines with MAAS tags, validate SSH access, and release machines when they are no longer needed.
Why use it?
It keeps MAAS as the source of truth for the machine lifecycle and makes deployment safer by requiring authorization, access checks, and controlled release operations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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

not rated 1.5krepo +3 yesterday A scan SkillSpector: pass 57 tokens original BSD-3-Clause

Good fit Use it to deploy Ubuntu machines, reinstall authorized targets, assign machines with MAAS tags, validate SSH access, and release machines when they are no longer needed.

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View source ↗ NVIDIA/deepops
About the project

DeepOps is a collection of automation tools for deploying and managing compute clusters that use NVIDIA GPUs with Kubernetes or Slurm. It supports environments ranging from full data-center clusters to individual machines needing GPU drivers, Docker, and NVIDIA container support.

NVIDIA/deepops · 1,480 stars · on GitHub

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/NVIDIA/deepops
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvidia/deepops/provision-with-maas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,716 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00057 $0.02716
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01086
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00272

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c3603c8fe76e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

provision-with-maas 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 1mo 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/provision-with-maas/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Provision with MAAS

Keep MAAS authoritative for machine lifecycle, power, PXE/DHCP, OS images, commissioning, deployment, release, pools, zones, and tags. Use DeepOps to install a controller, request explicit deploy/tag/release operations, and turn deployed machine tags into Ansible inventory.

Preconditions

  • Work from the DeepOps repository root on a prepared Ansible control machine.
  • Confirm that every target is authorized for reinstallation. A deploy erases its installed OS, and maas_deploy.sh releases every listed deployed machine before installing it again.
  • Provide a MAAS 3.x controller reachable through its REST API and an OAuth1 API key in consumer_key:token_key:token_secret format.
  • Ensure the provisioning VLAN can safely use MAAS DHCP, with a reserved dynamic range that does not overlap site addresses. Targets must PXE boot on that network.
  • Configure target power control in MAAS, or arrange manual power cycles. Commission each target to Ready, sync the requested Ubuntu image, and add an SSH public key that the operator can use after deployment.
  • Use Ubuntu 24.04 with the MAAS 3.7 repository for a new controller, or the MAAS 3.5 repository while the controller remains on Ubuntu 22.04.

Procedure

Prepare MAAS and DeepOps

  1. Install DeepOps dependencies and create the private configuration if this checkout has not been prepared:

    ./scripts/setup.sh

  2. If DeepOps must install the MAAS controller, set maas_adminusers, maas_dns_domain, maas_region_controller, maas_region_controller_url, and maas_repo in config/group_vars/all.yml. Review the inventory, then limit the controller playbook to exactly that host:

    ansible-playbook -l <maas-controller-host> playbooks/provisioning/maas.yml

    Skip this step when using an existing MAAS controller.

  3. Edit config/maas-inventory.yml, which scripts/setup.sh creates from config.example/maas-inventory.yml:

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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. 1mo ago First seen · 253 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c3603c8fe76e

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provision-with-maas is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/deepops (1,480 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,716 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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