pulumi-overview

pulumi-overview is a skill for Claude Code from pulumi/agent-skills. It costs 210 tokens per session (4,991 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A general guide to Pulumi, a tool for creating and managing cloud infrastructure such as virtual machines, storage, databases, and Kubernetes clusters with code or commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for cloud infrastructure and SaaS configuration tasks, including previews, deployments, reusable projects, secrets and configuration, policy, scheduled work, and drift detection.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right level of Pulumi for the job, from changing one resource directly to managing projects, credentials, policies, deployments, and drift.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pulumi plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for cloud infrastructure and SaaS configuration tasks, including previews, deployments, reusable projects, secrets and configuration, policy, scheduled work, and drift detection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pulumi/agent-skills/pulumi-overview
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 pulumi/agent-skills --skill pulumi-overview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pulumi/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pulumi, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 210 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,991 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 29 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 29 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 35 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 42
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 20
    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.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 38
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 55
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 56
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 95
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 98
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 106
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 109
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 116
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 119
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 144
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 162
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 163
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 166
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 173
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 174
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 175
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 187
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00210 $0.04991
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.02495
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00998
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00499

Measured 11d ago against content hash 273d233d7ffc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pulumi-overview 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 11d 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.

pulumi/skills/pulumi-overview/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pulumi

Pulumi is a tool for creating and managing cloud infrastructure: virtual machines, storage, Kubernetes clusters, databases, anything from any provider. You write code or run CLI commands, Pulumi previews what would change, then applies it. This skill walks three levels of working with Pulumi, from a single CLI command up to a project with policies and scheduled drift. Start at the smallest level that fits the task.

The three levels

Level 1 is pulumi do, a CLI for direct CRUD against any provider, with no project files or programming language. Level 2 is a Pulumi project in Python, TypeScript, Go, C#, or Java, used once the work involves multiple related resources, loops or conditionals, reusable abstractions, or environment-specific variants. Level 3 layers Pulumi Cloud onto a project for ESC credentials and configuration, policy, hosted execution, drift detection, schedules, and audit.

Level Surface When to use
1 pulumi do Single resource or multi-vendor bootstrapping
2 Pulumi project (Python, TS, Go, C#, Java) Multiple resources, abstractions, environments
3 ESC, policy, deployments, drift, schedules Governance, secrets, scheduled and hosted runs

When the directory has no existing Pulumi project, a user asking to create a single bucket is a Level 1 task; do not scaffold a new project for it. A request to provision a VPC with subnets and a Kubernetes cluster is Level 2 from the start. A request for nightly drift detection on an existing stack is Level 3.

Converting existing infrastructure code from another tool (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, ARM, or Bicep) is a separate path: route straight to the migration skills listed in the table at the end, independent of the level model.

Picking the right level requires knowing what is already in the directory. If you can inspect the filesystem, do so. If you cannot (restricted agent contexts), ask the user before any Pulumi command runs whether there is an existing Pulumi project in the directory. Don't run a Pulumi command to find out: commands that would otherwise require a login silently provision a new agent account, parallel to one the user may already own.

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 291 lines · 210 tokens per session scan A 273d233d7ffc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pulumi-overview is a skill published in the GitHub repository pulumi/agent-skills (68 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 210 tokens to every session and 4,991 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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