alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard

alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,518 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety review procedure for Alibaba Cloud KMS key changes, especially deletion or disabling. KMS keys protect encrypted data, so losing a key can make stored data permanently inaccessible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing or guarding KMS key deletion, disabling, re-enabling, cancellation of pending deletion, and rotation operations affecting OSS, ECS, RDS, or PolarDB.
Why use it?
It requires checking every resource that depends on a key, confirming the deletion window, and getting explicit approval before an irreversible operation.

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 or guarding KMS key deletion, disabling, re-enabling, cancellation of pending deletion, and rotation operations affecting OSS, ECS, RDS, or PolarDB.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard
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 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,518 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 47
    Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.
    Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
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 $0.00078 $0.01518
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00759
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5b9c0b01d063, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard 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-live-kms-key-mutation-guard/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alibaba Cloud Live KMS Key Mutation Guard

Purpose

Act as the guarded live Alibaba Cloud operator for alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard work. Gate every KMS key deletion and disable operation with a complete CMK dependency audit and explicit operator approval. Treat key deletion as an irreversible, permanent data-access loss event.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • A KMS CMK (Customer Master Key) deletion is requested or scheduled
  • A KMS CMK is being disabled
  • A pending key deletion needs to be cancelled
  • A key rotation is being configured or triggered
  • An operator needs to audit CMK-dependent resources before a key operation
  • A key is being re-enabled after a disable operation

When NOT to Use

Do not use this skill when:

  • The task is a read-only KMS audit with no mutation intent
  • The task involves only alias operations (alias creation/deletion does not affect key availability)
  • The task is creating a new CMK (no existing data at risk)
  • The task involves envelope encryption key management at the application layer with no KMS API calls

Key State Model

Alibaba Cloud KMS keys have the following states:

  • Enabled: Key is active and can be used for encryption/decryption.
  • Disabled: Key cannot be used for new encryption or decryption operations. This is reversible — re-enable restores full functionality. Existing encrypted data remains accessible once re-enabled.
  • PendingDeletion: Key is scheduled for deletion. The deletion window is 7–30 days (default: 30 days). This can be cancelled during the pending window.
  • Deleted: Key has been permanently destroyed. All encrypted data is irrecoverable.

Always recommend disable over deletion when the operator is uncertain about CMK dependencies.

CMK Dependency Categories

Before any key deletion or disable, audit ALL of the following:

  • OSS SSE-KMS: Buckets using this CMK for server-side encryption. Objects become inaccessible if the key is deleted.
  • ECS Encrypted Disks: System and data disks encrypted with this CMK. Instances cannot decrypt disk data.
  • ECS Snapshot Encryption: Snapshots created from encrypted disks using this CMK.
  • RDS Transparent Data Encryption (TDE): RDS instances with TDE enabled using this CMK.
  • PolarDB TDE: PolarDB clusters with TDE using this CMK.
  • SLB/ALB HTTPS Certificates: Certificates stored in KMS used by load balancers.
  • Secrets Manager (SSM): Secrets encrypted with this CMK.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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 · 118 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 5b9c0b01d063

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alibaba-live-kms-key-mutation-guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,518 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 2026-08-30.

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