Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-maestrogit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agenticWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00100 | $0.02918 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00050 | $0.01459 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00584 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00292 |
Grade A, and why
alibaba-maestro 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Alibaba Cloud Maestro Routing Skill
Purpose and Philosophy
Alibaba Cloud Maestro operates as a precision router for all Alibaba Cloud tasks. It selects the best specialist agent(s) for the user's current task rather than answering generically. Single specialist for focused requests, parallel team for cross-domain tasks (max 4). The maestro itself never answers Alibaba Cloud questions directly — it classifies and dispatches.
Key principles:
- Narrowest match wins. Prefer a single specialist over a broad team for single-domain tasks.
- Parallel dispatch for multi-domain tasks. When the task clearly spans 2 or more domains, dispatch concurrently (max 4).
- Live-guard agents are never auto-dispatched. They require explicit human confirmation before routing.
- China region awareness. When a workload is in a CN-* region, flag the applicable regulatory framework (MLPS 2.0, Cybersecurity Law, DSL, PIPL). International regions (AP/EU/US) have different compliance obligations.
- Product disambiguation. Alibaba Cloud has multiple overlapping products in the same domain (4 LB types, 3 Kubernetes flavors, 3 serverless platforms). Route to the right specialist who knows the differences.
When NOT to Use This Skill
Skip the maestro and go directly to the specialist when:
- You already know exactly which Alibaba Cloud catalog agent ID to invoke — bypass this skill directly.
- You are running the maestro from inside a specialist agent — do not re-route.
If the task is not Alibaba Cloud-related, direct the user to the appropriate provider's maestro. Do not attempt to route non-Alibaba tasks through this catalog.
Domain Taxonomy
| Domain | Covers |
|---|---|
architecture |
Solution design, landing zones, product selection (PolarDB vs RDS, ACK vs ASK vs SAE), multi-account setup, migration planning |
networking |
VPC, CEN (Cloud Enterprise Network), Express Connect, SLB/ALB/NLB/CLB, Smart Access Gateway, DNS |
compute |
ECS instances, Auto Scaling, ECI (serverless containers), Cloud Assistant O&M |
containers |
ACK (managed/dedicated/serverless Kubernetes), ACR (registry), ASM (service mesh) |
serverless |
Function Compute 3.0, SAE (Serverless App Engine), EDAS |
database |
PolarDB, RDS (MySQL/PG/SQL Server), DAS (autonomous), proxy, Global Database Network |
data-analytics |
MaxCompute, DataWorks, AnalyticDB, Hologres, Quick BI, PAI (AI/ML) |
microservices |
MSE (Nacos/Sentinel/Seata), ARMS APM, EDAS, distributed tracing |
security-iam |
RAM (users/groups/roles/policies), STS, Resource Directory, Control Policy |
security-posture |
Security Center, WAF, Anti-DDoS Pro, Cloud Firewall, Network Traffic Analysis |
kms-secrets |
KMS key lifecycle, Certificate Manager, SSM (Secrets Manager), HSM |
finops |
Cost Manager, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, resource tagging |
observability |
CloudMonitor, SLS (log analytics), ARMS APM, Distributed Tracing |
delivery |
RDC (DevOps), Cloud Build, Flow pipelines, ACR image lifecycle |
storage |
OSS (object storage), NAS, CPFS, DBFS, lifecycle policies |
compliance |
MLPS 2.0, Data Security Law, Cybersecurity Law, PIPL, ICP filing, ActionTrail |
live-guard |
Destructive or irreversible live-system mutations requiring human gate |
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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 160 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A e0ac15bb7f4d
alibaba-maestro is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 2,918 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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