ansible

ansible is a skill for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,025 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide to Ansible, a tool that uses YAML instructions to configure and automate servers over SSH. It covers playbooks, tasks, variables, handlers, conditions, and loops.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Ansible playbooks and their project structure.
Why use it?
It helps you understand how to organise repeatable server setup and deployment work without manually changing each machine.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ansible plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing Ansible playbooks and their project structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinnie357/claude-skills/ansible
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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill ansible
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ansible, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for ansible

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ansible

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,025 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. 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 $0.00042 $0.02025
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01012
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00202

Measured 9d ago against content hash b86225c087ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ansible scanned grade B with 2 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 9d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- { name: alice, groups: sudo }

Makes network callslowCapability

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

name: curl
plugins/tools/ansible/skills/ansible/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ansible

Activate when working with Ansible playbooks, tasks, variables, handlers, conditionals, loops, or setting up an Ansible project from scratch.

Anti-fabrication

This skill follows core:anti-fabrication. The claim area is playbook/task/variable behavior — precedence order, module params, CLI flags — which drifts across Ansible releases. Verified against ansible-core 2.21.2 (pipx-installed live, claude-skills-223): the variable precedence order (role defaults < host_vars < play vars < vars_files < extra-vars) was confirmed with four live adjacent-pair test playbooks, not assumed from docs, and when: list ANDing plus check_mode: false were confirmed correct. Re-verify against a current ansible-playbook --version before asserting a flag or precedence rule this skill doesn't cover; see plugins/tools/ansible/skills/sources.toml for the full per-claim record.

What Is Ansible

Ansible is an agentless, push-based automation tool. The control node (your machine) connects to managed nodes (servers) over SSH and runs tasks declared in YAML files called playbooks. There is no agent to install on managed nodes — only Python and SSH access are required.

Key properties:

  • Idempotent: Running a playbook multiple times produces the same result. Tasks check current state before making changes.
  • Declarative: You describe the desired state, not step-by-step instructions.
  • Push-based: The control node initiates all connections.

Available Skills

Skill When to load
ansible Core playbooks, tasks, vars, loops — this file
ansible-inventory Configuring hosts, groups, group_vars, dynamic inventory
ansible-roles Reusable role structure, Galaxy, Jinja2 templates
ansible-vault Encrypting secrets, vault passwords, vault IDs
ansible-testing Molecule test scenarios, Testinfra, CI integration

Install

pip install ansible          # recommended via pip
brew install ansible         # macOS Homebrew alternative
ansible --version            # verify

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 271 lines · 42 tokens per session scan B b86225c087ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ansible is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,025 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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