ansible-scaffold-collection

ansible-scaffold-collection is a skill for Claude Code from stoleas/ansible-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (3,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template guide for creating Ansible collections that package reusable automation such as roles, modules, plugins, playbooks, and documentation. Ansible is a tool for automating computer configuration and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize a new collection with a valid namespace and collection name, organized content, documentation, and tests.
Why use it?
It avoids manually designing the folder structure, naming, documentation, and testing setup required for a standards-compliant collection.

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 initialize a new collection with a valid namespace and collection name, organized content, documentation, and tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-collection
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-scaffold-collection
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

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,572 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.
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 $0.00086 $0.03572
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01786
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00714
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00357

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3f2c0f94090b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ansible-scaffold-collection 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 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.

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.

skills/ansible-scaffold-collection/SKILL.md · 687 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 687 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible Collection Scaffolding Skill

Scaffold complete Ansible collections following Red Hat Communities of Practice (CoP) standards with proper structure, documentation, and testing setup.

What is an Ansible Collection?

An Ansible Collection is a distribution format for Ansible content that can contain:

  • Roles - Reusable automation units
  • Modules - Custom Ansible modules
  • Plugins - Various plugin types (filters, lookups, inventory, etc.)
  • Playbooks - Example playbooks and workflows
  • Documentation - Comprehensive guides and references

Collections enable:

  • Packaging related automation together
  • Versioning and distribution via Ansible Galaxy
  • Namespace isolation
  • Reusable content across organizations

Collection Naming

Format: namespace.collection_name

Rules:

  • Namespace: Organization or author identifier (lowercase, underscores allowed)
  • Collection name: Descriptive name (lowercase, underscores allowed, no dashes)
  • Both must be valid Python identifiers
  • Examples: company.infrastructure, redhat.rhel_system_roles, community.general

Collection Structure

Complete Red Hat CoP compliant collection:

namespace/
└── collection_name/
    ├── galaxy.yml                 # Collection metadata (REQUIRED)
    ├── README.md                  # Collection documentation (REQUIRED)
    ├── docs/                      # Additional documentation
    │   ├── getting_started.md
    │   └── guides/
    ├── meta/
    │   └── runtime.yml            # Runtime metadata
    ├── roles/                     # Collection roles
    │   ├── role_name_1/
    │   │   ├── defaults/
    │   │   ├── handlers/
    │   │   ├── meta/
    │   │   │   ├── main.yml
    │   │   │   └── argument_specs.yml
    │   │   ├── tasks/
    │   │   ├── templates/
    │   │   ├── vars/
    │   │   ├── README.md
    │   │   └── molecule/
    │   └── role_name_2/
    ├── plugins/                   # Collection plugins
    │   ├── modules/               # Custom modules
    │   │   └── module_name.py
    │   ├── module_utils/          # Shared module utilities
    │   ├── filter/                # Jinja2 filters
    │   ├── lookup/                # Lookup plugins
    │   ├── inventory/             # Inventory plugins
    │   ├── callback/              # Callback plugins
    │   └── action/                # Action plugins
    ├── playbooks/                 # Example playbooks
    │   ├── example_1.yml
    │   └── example_2.yml
    ├── tests/                     # Collection-level tests
    │   ├── integration/
    │   │   └── targets/
    │   └── unit/
    │       └── plugins/
    ├── changelogs/                # Changelog management
    │   ├── config.yaml
    │   └── changelog.yaml
    ├── .ansible-lint              # Linting configuration
    ├── .yamllint                  # YAML linting configuration
    ├── .gitignore
    └── LICENSE

Read the full file on GitHub · 687 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. 12d ago First seen · 687 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 3f2c0f94090b

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ansible-scaffold-collection is a skill published in the GitHub repository stoleas/ansible-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 3,572 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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