multi-account-from-day-one

multi-account-from-day-one is a skill for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for separating cloud projects into different accounts from the start, commonly keeping development and production apart. A cloud account is a provider-managed boundary for resources, permissions, and billing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a cloud project, planning account or project structure, isolating environments, setting up organization groups, or designing a landing zone—the initial cloud setup for an organization.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that a development change affects live systems, mixes costs, or exposes production data and secrets. It also makes permissions and service limits easier to manage separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cloud-foundation-principles plugin — 16 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating a cloud project, planning account or project structure, isolating environments, setting up organization groups, or designing a landing zone—the initial cloud setup for an organization.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/multi-account-from-day-one
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add oborchers/fractional-cto --skill multi-account-from-day-one
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-foundation-principles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,169 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 $0.00070 $0.02169
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01085
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00217

Measured 12d ago against content hash fd9a1ddf08b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-account-from-day-one 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.

cloud-foundation-principles/skills/multi-account-from-day-one/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Separate Accounts Before You Write a Single Resource

Running development and production in a single cloud account is the most common shortcut in early-stage infrastructure, and it is cheap to fix on day one -- one afternoon of work. Six months later, when production databases share IAM policies with developer sandboxes, when billing is an undifferentiated blob, and when a misconfigured dev deployment takes down prod, the fix becomes a full migration measured in weeks. Multi-account isolation is not a scale concern. It is a day-one concern.

Why Single-Account Fails

A single cloud account creates invisible couplings that compound over time:

Problem Single Account Multi-Account
Blast radius A dev IAM policy change can affect prod resources Accounts are hard boundaries; dev cannot touch prod
Billing All costs in one bucket; cost attribution requires tagging discipline Per-account billing is automatic and unambiguous
Permissions Everyone who can deploy to dev can potentially access prod secrets Cross-account access requires explicit trust policies
Service quotas Dev load tests consume prod quota Each account has independent quotas
Compliance Auditors must review everything; no clean scope boundary Prod account is the audit scope; dev is excluded
Credential blast One leaked key exposes everything One leaked key exposes one environment

The longer you wait, the worse each problem gets. Resources accumulate. IAM policies intertwine. Developers build tooling that assumes a single account. Every day you delay makes the eventual migration more expensive.

The Minimum Viable Account Structure

Start with six accounts or projects. This is the minimum that provides meaningful isolation:

Organization Root
├── Management Account          -- SSO, billing, organization policies
│
├── Security OU                 -- (GCP: Folder, Azure: Management Group)
│   ├── security                -- Centralized security services
│   └── log-archive             -- Immutable, centralized audit logs
│
├── Sandbox OU
│   └── sandbox                 -- Unrestricted experimentation, no prod access
│
└── Workloads OU
    ├── dev                     -- Development workloads
    └── prod                    -- Production workloads

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 192 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A fd9a1ddf08b5

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multi-account-from-day-one is a skill published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (30 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,169 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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