alliance-docs

alliance-docs is a skill for Claude Code from ualberta-rcg/drac-agent-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation lookup tool for the Alliance of Canadian Digital Research Infrastructure, which provides shared high-performance computing clusters and research storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check documentation about clusters, Slurm job scheduling, software modules, storage, accounts, cloud services, and file transfers.
Why use it?
Cluster commands, software versions, scheduling rules, and storage policies can change or differ by site; this tool supplies current Alliance-specific guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to check documentation about clusters, Slurm job scheduling, software modules, storage, accounts, cloud services, and file transfers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ualberta-rcg/drac-agent-skills/alliance-docs
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 ualberta-rcg/drac-agent-skills --skill alliance-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ualberta-rcg/drac-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,127 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.
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 $0.00062 $0.01127
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00563
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00113

Measured 10d ago against content hash 01faf23b6f37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alliance-docs 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Bash(curl *)
etc/claude-code/.claude/skills/alliance-docs/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alliance Docs RAG API

Use this skill as an agentic documentation lookup layer for Alliance (DRAC) HPC work. It is meant for AI agents such as Claude Code, Cursor CLI, and other coding or operations agents that need to inspect current Alliance documentation before making changes, writing commands, generating job scripts, installing software, or advising on cluster workflows.

The API provides semantic search over the Alliance HPC documentation wiki. Query it when you need to know how something works on Alliance systems instead of relying on memory or generic Linux/HPC assumptions. The docs are updated regularly and cover all Alliance clusters.

When to query

Query this skill before acting on Alliance-specific assumptions, especially for:

  • Software and tools: modules, applications, Python, R, MATLAB, containers, and package setup
  • Slurm and scheduling: job scripts, GPU flags, partitions, arrays, MPI jobs, accounts, QOS, and cluster-specific submission behaviour
  • Storage and filesystems: quota limits, purge policies, filesystem behaviour, /home, /scratch, /project, nearline, and object storage
  • File transfer: Globus, data transfer nodes, rsync, SCP/SFTP, and transfer guidance
  • Accounts and access: CCDB, RAC/RAS allocations, passwords, MFA, SSH, and access procedures
  • Cloud and services: OpenStack, VMs, flavors, volumes, networking, security groups, and floating IPs
  • Any Alliance guide, procedure, or workflow where guessing could produce the wrong command, wrong resource request, or stale advice

This skill is broad by design. If the task touches Alliance HPC infrastructure, software, docs, or cluster operations and the answer may depend on current local documentation, query the API first.

A good pattern is: docs for guidance, local commands and other alliance skills for reality.

POST /query

curl -s -X POST https://docs-api.vulcan.alliancecan.ca/query \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"question": "your question here", "top_n": 5}'

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 10d ago First seen · 110 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 01faf23b6f37

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alliance-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository ualberta-rcg/drac-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,127 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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