rudder-environment-check

rudder-environment-check is a skill for Claude Code from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (556 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup diagnostic for RudderStack, a platform for collecting and sending product-usage data. It checks the command-line tool, Terraform when relevant, and the connection to RudderStack's hosted service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before your first RudderStack workflow or when troubleshooting the development environment, command-line access, Terraform, or service connectivity.
Why use it?
It shows which required tools are missing, unauthenticated, or unreachable before a RudderStack workflow fails. This makes command-not-found and setup problems easier to locate.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the rudder-core plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before your first RudderStack workflow or when troubleshooting the development environment, command-line access, Terraform, or service connectivity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-environment-check
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 rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills --skill rudder-environment-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 556 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: 1 finding, 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 88
    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 $0.00040 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7e76f6e9b04e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rudder-environment-check 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: "Bash(which, curl, rudder-cli *, terraform *), Read"
plugins/rudder-core/skills/rudder-environment-check/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RudderStack Environment Check

Quick diagnostic that checks all RudderStack tool prerequisites and provides actionable guidance.

When to Use

  • Before starting with RudderStack workflows
  • When troubleshooting "command not found" errors
  • To verify your development environment is ready

Check Process

Run these checks in sequence:

1. Check rudder-cli

# Check if installed
which rudder-cli

# If installed, check authentication
rudder-cli workspace info

2. Check Terraform (if using terraform workflows)

# Check if installed
which terraform

# If installed, check version
terraform version

# Check if provider is configured (run in project directory)
terraform providers

3. Check MCP Server Connectivity

# Check if hosted MCP server is reachable
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://mcp.rudderstack.com/health

Output Format

Present results as a status table:

RudderStack Environment Check
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Tool                    Status      Action
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
rudder-cli              ✓ Ready
  └─ authenticated      ✓ Ready     Workspace: <name>
terraform               ✗ Missing   Run: /rudder-terraform-setup
  └─ provider           ─ Skipped   (terraform required first)
mcp.rudderstack.com     ✓ Reachable
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Status Indicators

Status Meaning
✓ Ready Tool installed and configured
✗ Missing Tool not found, needs installation
─ Skipped Dependency not met, check parent first
⚠ Issue Tool found but configuration problem

Next Steps by Status

Tool Missing Action
rudder-cli Run /rudder-cli-setup or ask "help me install rudder-cli"
terraform Run /rudder-terraform-setup or ask "help me setup terraform for rudderstack"
MCP unreachable Run /rudder-mcp-setup or check network connectivity

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 · 90 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 7e76f6e9b04e

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rudder-environment-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 556 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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