complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch

complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch is a skill for Claude Code from selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills. It costs 206 tokens per session (4,088 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A step-by-step guide for deploying a complete AI agent system using managed cloud services. It covers the cloud setup, agent control flow, language-model access, knowledge retrieval, tools, safety checks, and monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and sequence a cloud deployment from the initial account setup through language-model routing, a vector database for retrieval, tool access, evaluations, safety, and cost monitoring.
Why use it?
An AI agent depends on several connected layers, and building them in the wrong order can cause rewrites, unsafe tool use, or missing cost and quality checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the ai-agent-skills plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan and sequence a cloud deployment from the initial account setup through language-model routing, a vector database for retrieval, tool access, evaluations, safety, and cost monitoring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills/complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills --skill complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 206 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,088 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: 6 findings, 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 Agent Snooping · line 69
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00206 $0.04088
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.02044
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00818
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00409

Measured 10d ago against content hash c74d9d51739f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch 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 10d 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/ai-agent/skills/complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Complete AI Agent Stack Deployment (Cloud-Managed) From Scratch

Purpose

A production AI agent is not one component — it's a chain of dependent layers (account guardrails, an agent control loop, LLM provider access, a knowledge-retrieval layer, tool access, a safety net, and cost/latency visibility) that only work as a coherent, safe system if wired up in the right order. Skip or mis-sequence a layer and the failure shows up somewhere confusing: an agent architecture designed before an LLM gateway exists hardcodes a single provider's SDK directly into agent code, making the later "add a fallback provider" phase a rewrite instead of a config change; or an MCP server is connected to a live agent before an evaluation harness exists, so the first prompt-injection-via-tool-output regression is discovered by a user, not a test suite. This skill sequences the cloud-managed version of that whole path — landing zone through cost monitoring — deliberately using vendor-neutral language for the LLM provider and vector database layers, since the managed-service choice at each of those layers is a real decision this skill defers to the reader rather than assumes.

When to use

  • Standing up a new production AI agent for a team or organization that wants to build on managed cloud services (LLM provider APIs, a managed vector database, cloud landing-zone guardrails) rather than self-hosting the model-serving and vector-database layers.
  • Deciding the right order to introduce an LLM gateway, RAG/vector search, MCP tool access, an evaluation harness, and cost monitoring into an agent that currently has none of them.
  • Auditing an existing agent deployment for a skipped or out-of-order phase (e.g. MCP tools connected before an evaluation harness existed, or cost monitoring added only after a surprising invoice).
  • Rebuilding a reference agent platform (a second product line, a second team) that should follow the same proven sequence as a known-good first deployment.
  • Explaining to a team the full dependency chain for a cloud-managed agent stack build-out, phase by phase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 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. 10d ago First seen · 318 lines · 206 tokens per session scan A c74d9d51739f

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complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-cloud-managed-from-scratch is a skill published in the GitHub repository selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills (38 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 206 tokens to every session and 4,088 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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