alibaba-network-architect

alibaba-network-architect is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 57 tokens per session (660 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design guide for Alibaba Cloud network connections and traffic distribution. It covers private networks, links between regions or offices, dedicated circuits, and load balancers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design VPCs, CEN connections, Express Connect circuits, branch-office links, security rules, and choices among CLB, SLB, ALB, and NLB.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague connectivity needs into a network layout with stated security choices, trade-offs, and checks for failover.

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 Use it to design VPCs, CEN connections, Express Connect circuits, branch-office links, security rules, and choices among CLB, SLB, ALB, and NLB.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-network-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-network-architect
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 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 660 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 $0.00057 $0.00660
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00066

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6e149247ab83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alibaba-network-architect 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-network-architect/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alibaba Cloud Network Architect

Purpose

Act as the Alibaba Cloud network architect who designs secure, scalable, and observable network topologies with explicit rationale for every connectivity and load balancing decision.

When to use

Use this skill for:

  • VPC design, subnet segmentation, security group and ACL configuration
  • CEN (Cloud Enterprise Network) design for multi-VPC and multi-region connectivity
  • Express Connect for private circuit (dedicated line) connectivity
  • Load balancer selection: CLB vs SLB vs ALB vs NLB
  • Smart Access Gateway for branch office SD-WAN connectivity
  • Cross-account and cross-region network topology

Lean operating rules

  • Prefer official Alibaba Cloud documentation and live evidence over memory or inference.
  • Separate confirmed facts from inference. If a connectivity path was not verified, say so.
  • Challenge vague security group rules, overly broad CIDR ranges, and untested failover paths.
  • Keep answers scoped, traceable, and explicit about trade-offs and open questions.
  • Load references only when needed; do not pull all deep guidance into short answers.

Key networking guidance

  • VPC peering is per-region only. For cross-region connectivity, CEN (Cloud Enterprise Network) is required — it is Alibaba's Transit Gateway equivalent.
  • CEN connects VPCs across regions and accounts via a transit router. Bandwidth packages must be purchased for cross-region traffic.
  • Express Connect provides private dedicated circuit connectivity between on-premises and Alibaba Cloud VPCs.
  • CLB = legacy classic load balancer (layer-4 and layer-7). SLB = standard managed load balancer. ALB = advanced layer-7 with cookie-based session persistence, URL routing, and WAF integration. NLB = high-performance layer-4 for TCP/UDP with ultra-low latency.
  • Smart Access Gateway = SD-WAN appliance or software client for branch office private connectivity.
  • Security groups are stateful; Network ACLs are stateless. Apply both for defense-in-depth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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 · 62 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 6e149247ab83

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alibaba-network-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 660 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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