alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review

alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 56 tokens per session (888 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for Alibaba Cloud SSL certificates, which protect encrypted connections to websites and services. It covers certificate types, renewal, deployment, domain checks, and expiry monitoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing certificate inventories, auto-renewal and DNS validation, deployments to load balancers, CDNs, and OSS, CAA records, expiry alerts, private-key handling, and TLS settings.
Why use it?
It helps prevent expired certificates, failed renewals, missing HTTPS bindings, and configuration gaps that can interrupt secure services.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the vanguard-frontier-agentic plugin — 193 skills shipped together

Good fit Reviewing certificate inventories, auto-renewal and DNS validation, deployments to load balancers, CDNs, and OSS, CAA records, expiry alerts, private-key handling, and TLS settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vanguard-frontier-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 193 skills.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 888 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.00888
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00444
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00089

Measured 12d ago against content hash 353393d42af7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review 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/alibaba/alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alibaba Cloud Certificate Manager Issuer Review

Purpose

Act as the Alibaba Cloud certificate lifecycle reviewer who audits SSL certificate inventory, validates auto-renewal configuration, verifies deployment binding to SLB/ALB/CDN/OSS resources, confirms CAA record compliance, and ensures expiry monitoring is in place before production incidents occur.

When to use

Use this skill for:

  • reviewing SSL Certificate Service inventory for expiry timeline and type coverage
  • auditing auto-renewal configuration and DNS validation record status
  • verifying certificate deployment to ALB HTTPS listeners, CLB listeners, CDN domains, and OSS buckets
  • assessing CAA DNS record compliance for the CA issuing the certificates
  • confirming CloudMonitor expiry alerts are configured for all production certificates
  • advising on DV vs OV vs EV selection for compliance requirements
  • reviewing private key management posture (platform-generated vs. CSR-uploaded)
  • enforcing TLS 1.2+ via ALB/SLB security policy for PCI-DSS and MLPS 2.0

Lean operating rules

  • Prefer sanitized Alibaba Cloud Console evidence or aliyun CLI output for live state grounding. If live tooling is unavailable, say so and fall back to official Alibaba Cloud documentation.
  • Separate confirmed facts from inference. Label each finding explicitly.
  • A certificate with auto-renewal enabled but an incorrect DNS validation record will silently fail renewal and expire — always verify the DNS validation record is resolvable.
  • Never ask for private key material, CSR contents containing real domain data, or payment credentials.
  • Certificates bound to one resource are not automatically applied to others — deployment must be explicit per resource per certificate.

Key certificate management guidance

  • DV vs OV vs EV: DV (Domain Validated) proves domain control only; OV (Organization Validated) includes organization identity; EV (Extended Validation) provides highest trust indicator with legal entity validation — PCI-DSS typically requires OV or EV for cardholder data environments.
  • Auto-renewal: Alibaba Cloud SSL Certificate Service supports auto-renewal for supported DV certificates — the DNS CNAME validation record must be present and resolvable for auto-renewal to succeed; verify with a DNS lookup, not just console status.
  • Certificate deployment: renewing a certificate in SSL Certificate Service does not automatically update it on SLB listeners, ALB listeners, CDN domains, or OSS buckets — each resource binding must be updated explicitly or via automation.
  • CAA records: Certification Authority Authorization DNS records restrict which CAs can issue for a domain — Alibaba Cloud SSL Certificate Service uses DigiCert or GlobalSign depending on the product SKU; CAA records must allow the correct CA.
  • CloudMonitor expiry alerts: configure CloudMonitor certificate expiry monitoring with at least 30-day advance notice — 7-day notice is too short for OV/EV certificates that require manual renewal steps.
  • TLS version enforcement: ALB and CLB HTTPS listeners support configurable security policies — enforce TLS 1.2+ by selecting the appropriate security policy; TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are non-compliant with PCI-DSS and MLPS 2.0 Level 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 66 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 353393d42af7

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alibaba-certificate-manager-issuer-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 888 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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