ansible-interactive

ansible-interactive is a skill for Claude Code from stoleas/ansible-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (5,960 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for building Ansible projects step by step, from setting up the environment to deploying playbooks. Ansible is a tool for automating the setup and management of computers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start an Ansible project, learn the workflow, or move from shell scripts to Ansible. It also helps validate and troubleshoot each stage.
Why use it?
It breaks a complex automation project into smaller steps and checks each step as you go. This helps catch configuration and deployment problems early.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ansible-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to start an Ansible project, learn the workflow, or move from shell scripts to Ansible. It also helps validate and troubleshoot each stage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-interactive
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 stoleas/ansible-skills --skill ansible-interactive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stoleas/ansible-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ansible-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for ansible-interactive

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,960 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. 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 $0.00097 $0.05960
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02980
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00596

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1be39fbd84da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

ansible-interactive scanned grade D with 3 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

ssh user@target-host "sudo -n true && echo 'Passwordless sudo configured'"

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa user@target-host

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- curl
skills/ansible-interactive/SKILL.md · 1,059 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,059 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible Interactive Development Skill

Provide step-by-step guided Ansible development workflow, from initial environment setup through playbook deployment. This skill offers interactive assistance at every stage with validation and troubleshooting.

What is Interactive Ansible Development?

Interactive development breaks complex Ansible projects into manageable steps with immediate feedback and validation at each stage.

Key Benefits:

  • Guided workflow - Step-by-step progression with clear objectives
  • Immediate validation - Test each step before moving forward
  • Error prevention - Catch issues early in the development process
  • Learning-focused - Understand concepts while building
  • Production-ready - Follow Red Hat CoP standards throughout

Who is this for?

  • Ansible beginners starting their first project
  • Teams transitioning to Ansible from shell scripts
  • Developers wanting guided best practices
  • Anyone preferring incremental, validated development

Interactive Development Workflow

Phase 1: Environment Analysis

Objective: Understand current environment and requirements

Steps:

  1. Assess Current State

    # Check Ansible installation
    ansible --version
    
    # Check Python version
    python3 --version
    
    # Check SSH availability
    ssh -V
    
  2. Define Requirements

    • What systems will you manage? (servers, network devices, cloud)
    • What tasks need automation? (deployment, configuration, patching)
    • What's the target environment? (development, staging, production)
    • How many hosts? (affects inventory structure)
    • What credentials are needed? (SSH keys, passwords, API tokens)
  3. Validate Prerequisites

    # Verify connectivity to target hosts
    ping -c 3 target-host
    
    # Test SSH access (without Ansible)
    ssh user@target-host "echo 'Connection successful'"
    
    # Check sudo/privilege escalation
    ssh user@target-host "sudo -n true && echo 'Passwordless sudo configured'"
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,059 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 11d ago First seen · 1,059 lines · 97 tokens per session scan D 1be39fbd84da

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ansible-interactive is a skill published in the GitHub repository stoleas/ansible-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 5,960 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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