gcp-expert

gcp-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,014 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference guide for Google Cloud Platform, Google's cloud platform. It covers hosted applications, serverless functions, storage, databases, data warehouses, messaging, and Kubernetes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy to Compute Engine, App Engine, or Cloud Run, create Cloud Functions, store files, use BigQuery or Firestore, send Pub/Sub messages, and manage GKE clusters.
Why use it?
It helps you select Google Cloud services and connect them into an application or data system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to deploy to Compute Engine, App Engine, or Cloud Run, create Cloud Functions, store files, use BigQuery or Firestore, send Pub/Sub messages, and manage GKE clusters.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill gcp-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,014 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 50
    Data is uploaded to cloud storage (S3 / GCS / Azure Blob). This may be a legitimate backup or exfiltration to an external bucket. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination bucket is trusted and owned by you. Never upload credentials, secrets, or workspace contents to external or unverified cloud storage.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.01014
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 5d ago against content hash a845ea84ca1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gcp-expert 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 5d 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.

stdlib/cloud/gcp-expert/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Cloud Platform Expert

Expert guidance for Google Cloud Platform services and cloud-native architecture.

Core Concepts

  • Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Run
  • Cloud Functions (serverless)
  • Cloud Storage
  • BigQuery (data warehouse)
  • Firestore (NoSQL database)
  • Pub/Sub (messaging)
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

gcloud CLI

# Initialize
gcloud init

# Create Compute Engine instance
gcloud compute instances create my-instance \
  --zone=us-central1-a \
  --machine-type=e2-medium \
  --image-family=ubuntu-2004-lts \
  --image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud

# Deploy App Engine
gcloud app deploy

# Create Cloud Storage bucket
gsutil mb gs://my-bucket-name/

# Upload file
gsutil cp myfile.txt gs://my-bucket-name/

Cloud Functions

import functions_framework
from google.cloud import firestore

@functions_framework.http
def hello_http(request):
    request_json = request.get_json(silent=True)
    name = request_json.get('name') if request_json else 'World'

    return f'Hello {name}!'

@functions_framework.cloud_event
def hello_pubsub(cloud_event):
    import base64
    data = base64.b64decode(cloud_event.data["message"]["data"]).decode()
    print(f'Received: {data}')

BigQuery

from google.cloud import bigquery

client = bigquery.Client()

# Query
query = """
    SELECT name, COUNT(*) as count
    FROM `project.dataset.table`
    WHERE date >= '2024-01-01'
    GROUP BY name
    ORDER BY count DESC
    LIMIT 10
"""

query_job = client.query(query)
results = query_job.result()

for row in results:
    print(f"{row.name}: {row.count}")

# Load data
dataset_id = 'my_dataset'
table_id = 'my_table'
table_ref = client.dataset(dataset_id).table(table_id)

job_config = bigquery.LoadJobConfig(
    source_format=bigquery.SourceFormat.CSV,
    skip_leading_rows=1,
    autodetect=True
)

with open('data.csv', 'rb') as source_file:
    job = client.load_table_from_file(source_file, table_ref, job_config=job_config)

job.result()

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines · +19 tokens per session a845ea84ca1b
  2. 10d ago First seen · 188 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 4e7b0a4ab520

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gcp-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,014 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.