ansible-scaffold-ee

ansible-scaffold-ee is a skill for Claude Code from stoleas/ansible-skills. It costs 97 tokens per session (4,055 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating Ansible Execution Environments with ansible-builder. An Execution Environment is a container containing Ansible and the collections, Python packages, system packages, and plugins an automation project needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create containerized Ansible environments for Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, pipelines, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or projects with complex dependencies.
Why use it?
It defines the runtime in a version-controlled file so automation uses the same dependencies across development, testing, production, and CI/CD.

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 create containerized Ansible environments for Ansible Automation Platform, AWX, pipelines, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or projects with complex dependencies.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee
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-ee
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-scaffold-ee

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for ansible-scaffold-ee

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stoleas/ansible-skills/ansible-scaffold-ee.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,055 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00097 $0.04055
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02027
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00811
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00405

Measured 12d ago against content hash e82054cd75f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ansible-scaffold-ee scanned grade C 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 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf /var/cache/yum
skills/ansible-scaffold-ee/SKILL.md · 715 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 715 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible Execution Environment Scaffolding Skill

Scaffold complete Ansible Execution Environments (EE) using ansible-builder, following Red Hat best practices for containerized Ansible automation.

What is an Execution Environment?

An Execution Environment (EE) is a containerized runtime for Ansible that includes:

  • Ansible Core/Engine
  • Ansible Collections
  • Python dependencies
  • System dependencies
  • Custom modules and plugins
  • Runtime configuration

Benefits:

  • Consistency - Same environment everywhere (dev, test, prod)
  • Isolation - Dependencies don't conflict with host system
  • Portability - Works on any container platform
  • Reproducibility - Version-controlled runtime
  • Speed - Pre-built dependencies, faster execution

Use Cases:

  • Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) / AWX
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Multi-environment automation
  • Complex dependency management
  • Kubernetes/OpenShift automation

Execution Environment Structure

Core File: execution-environment.yml

This is the definition file for ansible-builder:

---
version: 3  # EE definition schema version

# Container image configuration
images:
  base_image:
    name: quay.io/ansible/creator-ee:latest

# Ansible configuration
ansible_config: ansible.cfg

# Dependencies
dependencies:
  galaxy: requirements.yml          # Collections
  python: requirements.txt          # Python packages
  system: bindep.txt               # System packages

# Additional files to copy
additional_build_files:
  - src: custom_files/
    dest: configs

# Custom build steps
additional_build_steps:
  prepend_base:
    - RUN echo "Custom base prep"
  prepend_galaxy:
    - RUN echo "Before galaxy install"
  append_galaxy:
    - RUN echo "After galaxy install"
  prepend_builder:
    - RUN echo "Before builder steps"
  append_builder:
    - RUN echo "After builder steps"
  append_final:
    - RUN echo "Final customizations"
    - RUN chmod -R g+w /runner

# Build arguments
build_arg_defaults:
  ANSIBLE_GALAXY_CLI_COLLECTION_OPTS: "--pre"
  PKGMGR_PRESERVE_CACHE: always

options:
  package_manager_path: /usr/bin/microdnf
  relax_passwd_permissions: true
  skip_ansible_check: false
  workdir: /runner

Read the full file on GitHub · 715 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. 12d ago First seen · 715 lines · 97 tokens per session scan C e82054cd75f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ansible-scaffold-ee is a skill published in the GitHub repository stoleas/ansible-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 4,055 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

deploy-docker-compose

Run the Omnigent server as a Docker compose stack (server + Postgres) on any Docker host — your laptop, a VPS, EC2 by hand, or as the base layer of any container-platform deploy. Invoke when the user wants to build the image, bring up the compose stack, debug the stack on a host they already have, or extend the stack…

omnigent-ai/omnigent · 84 tokens

compute-env-setup

Set up a reproducible Feynman compute environment for research jobs. Use when a task needs Python/R packages, GPU libraries, containers, Modal, SSH, caches, or managed model runtime setup.

companion-inc/feynman · 45 tokens

securing-kubernetes-on-cloud

This skill covers hardening managed Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS, and GKE by implementing Pod Security Standards, network policies, workload identity, RBAC scoping, image admission controls, and runtime security monitoring. It addresses cloud-specific security features including IRSA for EKS, Workload Identity for…

xalgorix/xalgorix · 80 tokens

detecting-privilege-escalation-in-kubernetes-pods

Detect and prevent privilege escalation in Kubernetes pods by monitoring security contexts, capabilities, and syscall patterns with Falco and OPA policies.

xalgorix/xalgorix · 40 tokens

implementing-rbac-hardening-for-kubernetes

Harden Kubernetes Role-Based Access Control by implementing least-privilege policies, auditing role bindings, eliminating cluster-admin sprawl, and integrating external identity providers.

xalgorix/xalgorix · 41 tokens

docker-socket-mount

Docker / containerd socket mounted into a container → host RCE. Common in CI runners, GitOps controllers (ArgoCD, Flux), and 'Docker-in-Docker' setups. Single-command escape via docker run --rm --privileged -v /:/host alpine chroot /host.

PurpleAILAB/Decepticon · 67 tokens