keel

keel is a skill for Claude Code from slamb2k/mad-skills. It costs 115 tokens per session (4,060 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An infrastructure-as-code setup skill that creates files describing cloud and container infrastructure, along with delivery pipelines. Infrastructure as code means managing deployment resources in version-controlled files instead of configuring them manually.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to provision cloud or container resources with Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, or CDK, and to create pipelines that check changes on pull requests and apply them after merging.
Why use it?
It turns an interview about your application and cloud provider into repeatable infrastructure and deployment files, reducing manual setup and inconsistent environments.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the mad-skills plugin — 20 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to provision cloud or container resources with Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi, or CDK, and to create pipelines that check changes on pull requests and apply them after merging.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add slamb2k/mad-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install mad-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mad-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,060 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00115 $0.04060
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.02030
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00812
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00406

Measured 10d ago against content hash 60213dc87e0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

keel scanned grade B 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 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

| sync | skill | `ls .claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/sync/SKILL.md ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/slamb2k/skills/sync/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null` | no | fallback | Repo sync; falls back to manual git pull |
skills/keel/SKILL.md · 431 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 431 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Keel - Infrastructure as Code Pipelines

When this skill is invoked, IMMEDIATELY output the banner below before doing anything else. Pick ONE tagline at random — vary your choice each time. CRITICAL: Reproduce the banner EXACTLY character-for-character, including the diagonal / glyph before the name.

{tagline}

       /$$ /$$   /$$ /$$$$$$$$ /$$$$$$$$ /$$      
      /$$/| $$  /$$/| $$_____/| $$_____/| $$      
     /$$/ | $$ /$$/ | $$      | $$      | $$      
    /$$/  | $$$$$/  | $$$$$   | $$$$$   | $$      
   /$$/   | $$  $$  | $$__/   | $$__/   | $$      
  /$$/    | $$\  $$ | $$      | $$      | $$      
 /$$/     | $$ \  $$| $$$$$$$$| $$$$$$$$| $$$$$$$$
|__/      |__/  \__/|________/|________/|________/

Taglines:

  • ⚓ Laying the keel — everything builds on this!
  • 🏗️ Infrastructure from code, not from clicks!
  • 🌍 Terraforming your cloud, one resource at a time!
  • 🔩 Bolting down the foundation!
  • ☁️ Cloud infrastructure, declared and versioned!
  • 🧱 No infra, no deploy — let's fix that!
  • 📐 Measure twice, provision once!
  • 🗺️ Charting the infrastructure map!

Provision cloud and container infrastructure through an interview-driven workflow that generates deterministic IaC files and CI/CD pipelines. The generated pipelines run plan on every PR and apply on merge to the default branch — no LLM at runtime.

Recommended skill order: /brace/rig/build/ship/keel/dock

/keel lays the infrastructure (registries, compute, networking, databases). /dock creates the deployment pipelines that push containers onto that infrastructure.

Flags

Parse optional flags from the request:

  • --plan-only: Generate IaC files but no CI/CD pipeline
  • --skip-interview: Use detected defaults without interactive prompts
  • --dry-run: Show what would be generated without writing files
  • --tool <name>: Force a specific IaC tool (terraform, bicep, pulumi, cdk)

Output Formatting

Input display: ┌─ Input │ {fields} └─. Pre-flight: ── Pre-flight ── ✅/⚠️/❌ ──. Stage headers: ━━ {N} · {Name} ━━━━━━━━━━━━━. Icons: ✅ done · ❌ fail · ⚠️ warn · ⏳ work · ⏭️ skip.

Read the full file on GitHub · 431 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 431 lines · 115 tokens per session scan B 60213dc87e0c

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keel is a skill published in the GitHub repository slamb2k/mad-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 4,060 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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