configuration-management

configuration-management is a skill for Claude Code from organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,490 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to managing application settings across environments such as development and production. It covers configuration files, environment variables, and secret values such as passwords or API keys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design configuration loading, validate required values and types, apply environment-specific overrides, and keep local secrets out of version control.
Why use it?
It prevents settings from being scattered or secrets from being exposed, while making it clear which value takes priority when several sources define the same setting.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the example-skills plugin — 47 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to design configuration loading, validate required values and types, apply environment-specific overrides, and keep local secrets out of version control.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills/configuration-management
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 organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills --skill configuration-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install example-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,490 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 30
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 98
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 111
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 32
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 60
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 90
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 93
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 44
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 71
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 102
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00047 $0.01490
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00149

Measured 12d ago against content hash e086319d965a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuration-management scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

return subprocess.check_output(["op", "read", value]).decode().strip()
distributions/claude/skills/configuration-management/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuration Management

Load, validate, and manage application configuration across environments.

Configuration Hierarchy

Priority order (highest wins):

1. Command-line arguments
2. Environment variables
3. .env.local (git-ignored, per-developer)
4. .env.{environment} (e.g., .env.production)
5. .env (shared defaults)
6. Config file (config.yaml, settings.toml)
7. Application defaults

Python: Pydantic Settings

from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings
from pydantic import Field, SecretStr

class Settings(BaseSettings):
    model_config = {"env_prefix": "APP_", "env_file": ".env"}

    # Required
    database_url: str
    redis_url: str = "redis://localhost:6379"

    # Secrets (masked in logs)
    api_key: SecretStr  # allow-secret
    db_password: SecretStr

    # Typed with defaults
    debug: bool = False
    log_level: str = "INFO"
    workers: int = Field(default=4, ge=1, le=32)
    allowed_origins: list[str] = ["http://localhost:3000"]

settings = Settings()  # Loads from env + .env file

Environment-Specific Overrides

from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings

class Settings(BaseSettings):
    model_config = {
        "env_prefix": "APP_",
        "env_file": [".env", f".env.{os.getenv('APP_ENV', 'development')}"],
    }

Environment Variable Conventions

Naming

# Prefix with app name to avoid collisions
APP_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://...
APP_REDIS_URL=redis://...
APP_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG

# Nested config uses double underscore
APP_AUTH__SECRET_KEY=...
APP_AUTH__TOKEN_TTL=3600

.env Files

# .env (committed, shared defaults)
APP_LOG_LEVEL=INFO
APP_WORKERS=4
APP_REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

# .env.local (git-ignored, developer overrides)
APP_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://dev:dev@localhost:5432/myapp
APP_DEBUG=true

# .env.production (committed, production defaults)
APP_LOG_LEVEL=WARNING
APP_WORKERS=8
APP_DEBUG=false

.gitignore Rules

.env.local
.env.*.local
*.secret

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 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. 12d ago First seen · 247 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A e086319d965a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configuration-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository organvm-iv-taxis/a-i--skills (17 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,490 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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