Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill ansible-expertgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pclWrote 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/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/ansible-expert)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/ansible-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/ansible-expert/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/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/ansible-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/ansible-expert.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket warn
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 11 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 323 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 326 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 335 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 338 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 342 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 361 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.
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 60 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 61 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 64 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 322 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- low Excessive Agency · line 32 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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 | $0.00059 | $0.02569 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.01028 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00514 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00257 |
Grade B, and why
ansible-expert scanned grade B 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 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
sudo apt update How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Ansible Expert
Expert guidance for Ansible - configuration management, application deployment, and IT automation using declarative YAML playbooks.
Core Concepts
Ansible Architecture
- Control node (runs Ansible)
- Managed nodes (target systems)
- Inventory (hosts and groups)
- Playbooks (YAML automation scripts)
- Modules (units of work)
- Roles (reusable automation units)
- Plugins (extend functionality)
Key Features
- Agentless (SSH-based)
- Idempotent operations
- Declarative syntax
- Human-readable YAML
- Extensible with modules
- Push-based configuration
- Parallel execution
Use Cases
- Configuration management
- Application deployment
- Provisioning
- Continuous delivery
- Security automation
- Orchestration
Installation
# Using pip
pip install ansible
# Using apt (Ubuntu/Debian)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ansible
# Using yum (RHEL/CentOS)
sudo yum install ansible
# Verify installation
ansible --version
Inventory
Basic Inventory (INI format)
# inventory/hosts
[webservers]
web1.example.com
web2.example.com ansible_host=192.168.1.10
[databases]
db1.example.com ansible_user=dbadmin
db2.example.com
[production:children]
webservers
databases
[production:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
ansible_connection=ssh
YAML Inventory
# inventory/hosts.yml
all:
children:
webservers:
hosts:
web1.example.com:
web2.example.com:
ansible_host: 192.168.1.10
databases:
hosts:
db1.example.com:
ansible_user: dbadmin
db2.example.com:
production:
children:
webservers:
databases:
vars:
ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
ansible_connection: ssh
Dynamic Inventory
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# inventory/aws_ec2.py
import json
import boto3
def get_inventory():
ec2 = boto3.client('ec2', region_name='us-east-1')
response = ec2.describe_instances(Filters=[
{'Name': 'instance-state-name', 'Values': ['running']}
])
inventory = {
'_meta': {'hostvars': {}},
'all': {'hosts': []},
'webservers': {'hosts': []},
'databases': {'hosts': []},
}
for reservation in response['Reservations']:
for instance in reservation['Instances']:
ip = instance['PrivateIpAddress']
tags = {tag['Key']: tag['Value'] for tag in instance.get('Tags', [])}
inventory['all']['hosts'].append(ip)
inventory['_meta']['hostvars'][ip] = {
'ansible_host': ip,
'instance_id': instance['InstanceId'],
'instance_type': instance['InstanceType'],
}
# Group by role tag
role = tags.get('Role', '')
if role in inventory:
inventory[role]['hosts'].append(ip)
return inventory
if __name__ == '__main__':
print(json.dumps(get_inventory(), indent=2))
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 1mo ago Changed · -368 lines · +40 tokens per session 35f49de1fbcf
- 2mo ago First seen · 813 lines · 19 tokens per session scan B 005bfc7cb72c
ansible-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (44 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,569 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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