Create HC AWS

Create HC AWS is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openshift/hypershift. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,333 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for creating a HyperShift HostedCluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for development and testing. A HostedCluster is a Kubernetes cluster whose control plane is hosted and managed separately from its worker infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for manual verification, feature testing, or code iteration against an AWS cluster. It requires configured AWS credentials, a management-cluster kubeconfig, a built HyperShift binary, and a pull secret.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to create a live test cluster for validating HyperShift changes, including optional custom images.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hypershift plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openshift/hypershift/create-hc-aws
Any agent
npx skills add openshift/hypershift --skill create-hc-aws
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift/hypershift

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hypershift, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,333 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00026 $0.01333
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00666
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00133

Measured 4d ago against content hash 42eb2b27bf71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Create HC AWS 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/dev/create-hc-aws/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create HostedCluster

This skill creates a HyperShift HostedCluster on AWS for development and testing purposes. The clusters created are intended for local development workflows, not for production use.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • You need to create a dev/test HostedCluster for manual verification
  • You want to test HyperShift features against a live cluster
  • You need a HostedCluster with custom CPO or HO images
  • You are iterating on code changes and need a cluster to validate them

Prerequisites

Source the environment file before using this skill:

source dev/claude-env.sh

Additional requirements:

  • AWS credentials loaded (source $AWS_CREDS_SOURCE)
  • KUBECONFIG pointing to management cluster ($MGMT_KUBECONFIG)
  • hypershift binary built (./bin/hypershift or run make hypershift)
  • Pull secret available ($PULL_SECRET)

Environment Configuration

Environment variables from dev/claude-env.sh:

Variable Description
AWS_CREDENTIALS Path to AWS credentials file
AWS_CREDS_SOURCE Script to source AWS env vars
BASE_DOMAIN Base DNS domain for clusters
PULL_SECRET Path to pull secret file
AWS_REGION AWS region
MGMT_KUBECONFIG Path to management cluster kubeconfig
CPO_IMAGE_REPO Custom CPO image repository

Basic Command

source $AWS_CREDS_SOURCE && \
KUBECONFIG=$MGMT_KUBECONFIG \
./bin/hypershift create cluster aws \
  --name <CLUSTER_NAME> \
  --namespace clusters \
  --base-domain $BASE_DOMAIN \
  --aws-creds $AWS_CREDENTIALS \
  --pull-secret $PULL_SECRET \
  --region $AWS_REGION \
  --release-image quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.21.0-multi \
  --node-pool-replicas 2

Common Parameters

Parameter Description Default
--name Name of the HostedCluster Required
--namespace Namespace for the HostedCluster clusters
--base-domain Base DNS domain $BASE_DOMAIN
--aws-creds Path to AWS credentials file $AWS_CREDENTIALS
--pull-secret Path to pull secret file $PULL_SECRET
--region AWS region $AWS_REGION
--release-image OCP release image Latest 4.21.0 multi-arch
--node-pool-replicas Initial node count 0 (add nodes later)
--control-plane-operator-image Custom CPO image Optional

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 4d ago First seen · 160 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 42eb2b27bf71

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Create HC AWS is a skill published in the GitHub repository openshift/hypershift (539 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,333 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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