Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add oborchers/fractional-cto --skill using-cloud-foundation-principlesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-ctoWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/using-cloud-foundation-principles)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/using-cloud-foundation-principles"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/using-cloud-foundation-principles/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/using-cloud-foundation-principles"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/using-cloud-foundation-principles.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00079 | $0.01059 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00530 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00212 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00106 |
Grade A, and why
using-cloud-foundation-principles 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
These are not suggestions. They are battle-tested, opinionated principles drawn from production experience scaling cloud infrastructure across multiple migrations, hundreds of services, and teams of every size. Each principle exists because its absence caused real, expensive damage.
How to Access Skills
Use the Skill tool to invoke any skill by name. When invoked, follow the skill's guidance directly.
Available Skills
| Skill | Triggers On |
|---|---|
cloud-foundation-principles:multi-account-from-day-one |
Account structure, environment isolation, governance setup, organization units, landing zones |
cloud-foundation-principles:naming-and-labeling-as-code |
Resource naming, tagging, cost centers, labels module, naming conventions, cost attribution |
cloud-foundation-principles:architecture-decision-records |
Decision documentation, ADRs, exemptions, context preservation, technical decision tracking |
cloud-foundation-principles:repository-and-state-strategy |
Terraform repo structure, numbered layers, state-per-layer isolation, cross-layer references, blast radius |
cloud-foundation-principles:terraform-module-patterns |
Module design, wrapping community modules, smart defaults, validation, version pinning, conditional creation |
cloud-foundation-principles:network-architecture |
VPC/VNet design, subnet tiers, API gateways, DNS, routing, NAT, VPC endpoints, private connectivity |
cloud-foundation-principles:zero-static-credentials |
SSO setup, OIDC federation, no API keys, no VPN, no SSH keys, identity management, CI/CD auth |
cloud-foundation-principles:security-monitoring-from-day-one |
Threat detection, compliance scanning, security hub, guard duty, centralized security account |
cloud-foundation-principles:secrets-and-configuration-management |
Secrets rotation, config vs credentials, parameter stores, secret managers, access patterns |
cloud-foundation-principles:managed-services-over-self-hosted |
Managed vs self-hosted, container orchestration, workflow engines, caches, databases |
cloud-foundation-principles:service-owned-infrastructure |
Service teams own IaC, no central bottleneck, per-service Terraform, shared modules |
cloud-foundation-principles:container-image-tagging |
Docker image tags, git SHA traceability, registry lifecycle policies, image metadata, OCI labels |
cloud-foundation-principles:tag-based-production-deploys |
Production release triggers, git tags vs branches, manual approval gates, pipeline stages, pre-commit hooks |
cloud-foundation-principles:unified-cicd-platform |
CI/CD platform consolidation, single pipeline platform, OIDC pipeline auth, eliminating multi-provider ops burden |
cloud-foundation-principles:operational-hygiene |
Resource cleanup, cost attribution, monitoring, drift detection, lifecycle policies |
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 60 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A d7dbb4e1540c
using-cloud-foundation-principles is a skill published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (29 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,059 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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