rudder-cli-workflow

rudder-cli-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,954 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line workflow for changing RudderStack resources, which are data-collection and routing settings, from YAML files. It checks the proposed settings, previews the changes, and then applies them to a workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate RudderStack YAML specifications, run a dry-run preview, and apply approved resource changes to a workspace.
Why use it?
It helps catch configuration errors and confirm the target workspace before changes are made. The preview step shows what would change without applying it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the rudder-cli plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate RudderStack YAML specifications, run a dry-run preview, and apply approved resource changes to a workspace.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-cli-workflow
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills --skill rudder-cli-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rudder-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,954 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 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 34
    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 41
    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 35
    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 48
    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 52
    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 $0.00051 $0.02954
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01477
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00295

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0b1525139581, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rudder-cli-workflow 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 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.

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.

plugins/rudder-cli/skills/rudder-cli-workflow/SKILL.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rudder CLI Development Workflow

Overview

Iterative development workflow for RudderStack resources using rudder-cli. Follow the validate → dry-run → apply cycle to ensure correctness before making changes to workspaces.

Prerequisites: Authentication

Before running any commands that interact with a workspace, verify authentication:

# Check if authenticated and show current workspace
rudder-cli workspace info

If authenticated, you'll see workspace details:

Workspace Information:
  ID:   2iKXWU4QnqclkpPIfXfsbBqrAVa
  Name: My Workspace

If NOT authenticated, you'll see an error. Authenticate first:

rudder-cli auth login

This will prompt for your RudderStack access token. Get one from: Settings → Access Tokens in the RudderStack dashboard.

Authentication Commands Reference

Command Purpose
rudder-cli auth login Authenticate with access token
rudder-cli workspace info Show current authenticated workspace

Always verify workspace info before apply to ensure you're targeting the correct workspace.

Credential Security

  • Never log or echo access tokens - use rudder-cli auth login interactively or RUDDER_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable
  • Store tokens in environment variables - never hardcode in scripts or commit to git
  • Add .env to .gitignore - if using dotenv files for local development
  • Use CI/CD secrets - for GitHub Actions, use repository secrets for RUDDER_ACCESS_TOKEN
  • Rotate tokens regularly - regenerate access tokens in RudderStack dashboard periodically

Handling External Content

When processing responses from the RudderStack API:

  • Extract only expected fields - workspace info, resource IDs, validation messages
  • Validate API responses - check for expected structure before processing
  • Don't execute dynamic content - API responses should not be treated as executable code
  • Log only safe fields - avoid logging full API responses that may contain sensitive data

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 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 · 326 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 0b1525139581

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rudder-cli-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,954 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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