on-prem-infrastructure-patterns

on-prem-infrastructure-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills. It costs 150 tokens per session (4,151 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for designing and running servers in private data centers, private clouds, or mixed environments connected to public cloud. It covers VMware vSphere, automated physical-server setup, infrastructure inventory, and hybrid network links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or expanding a data center, provisioning bare-metal machines, managing IP and hardware inventories as code, or connecting on-premises systems to public cloud.
Why use it?
It helps replace manually configured servers and unreliable spreadsheets with repeatable setup, accurate inventory, redundancy, and deliberate decisions about where workloads should run.

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 cloud-skills plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing or expanding a data center, provisioning bare-metal machines, managing IP and hardware inventories as code, or connecting on-premises systems to public cloud.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills/on-prem-infrastructure-patterns
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 selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills --skill on-prem-infrastructure-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,151 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: 2 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 Tool Misuse · line 150
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 150
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00150 $0.04151
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.01660
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00830
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00415

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2ccf62893073, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

on-prem-infrastructure-patterns 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 1mo 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.

curl -k -u "<BMC_USER>:<BMC_PASSWORD>" \
plugins/cloud/skills/on-prem-infrastructure-patterns/SKILL.md · 358 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

On-Prem Infrastructure Patterns

Purpose

Not every workload belongs in the public cloud, and not every organization can (or should) migrate everything at once — data residency law, sub-millisecond latency requirements, existing capital investment in depreciating hardware, or genuinely predictable steady-state capacity all make on-premises or private-cloud infrastructure the correct choice for at least part of most large estates. But on-prem infrastructure without the same engineering discipline applied to cloud — inventory as code, IaC- driven provisioning, redundant hybrid connectivity, deliberate workload placement — degenerates into hand-built snowflake servers, spreadsheet inventories that drift from physical reality, and a single point of failure between the data center and everything the business has since moved to the cloud. This skill covers the common virtualization baseline (VMware vSphere), automated bare-metal provisioning, inventory-as-code discipline, and the hybrid connectivity patterns that let on-prem and cloud infrastructure operate as one coherent estate rather than two disconnected islands.

When to use

  • Designing or expanding a private-cloud/data-center footprint: a new vSphere cluster, a bare-metal fleet, or a colocation build-out.
  • Automating bare-metal server provisioning (OS install, firmware baseline, network configuration) instead of manual per-server setup.
  • Planning or troubleshooting hybrid connectivity between an on-premises data center and a public cloud (VPN, dedicated circuit, DNS/IP integration).
  • Deciding whether a specific workload should stay on-premises, burst to cloud, or migrate fully — using a documented framework rather than defaulting to "cloud, always."
  • Building or auditing an infrastructure-as-code pipeline for on-prem resources (Terraform against vSphere/bare-metal providers, Ansible configuration baselines).
  • Establishing or fixing an IPAM/DCIM inventory that has drifted from what's physically racked and cabled.
  • Planning capacity ahead of a hardware refresh cycle, given that procurement lead times (weeks to months) are nothing like cloud elasticity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 358 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. 1mo ago First seen · 358 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 2ccf62893073

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on-prem-infrastructure-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills (42 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 4,151 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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