terraform-guide

terraform-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 62 tokens per session (598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to editing Terraform 1.12 and later infrastructure code. Terraform is a tool that describes cloud and other infrastructure in files and applies those descriptions to create or change resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design Terraform modules, separate environments, manage remote state, define providers, and review infrastructure changes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsafe infrastructure changes, shared state problems, unpinned dependencies, and confusing module or environment layouts.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the xonovex-platform plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design Terraform modules, separate environments, manage remote state, define providers, and review infrastructure changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/terraform-guide
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 xonovex/platform --skill terraform-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-platform, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 598 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.
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 $0.00062 $0.00598
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00239
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00060

Measured 7d ago against content hash 56780e62fed3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terraform-guide 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 7d 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.

packages/runtime/plugin/plugin-platform/skills/terraform-guide/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terraform Coding Guidelines

Manage infrastructure through Terraform plans with pinned providers, protected state, and validated changes.

Requirements

  • Terraform ≥ 1.12; remote state; pinned providers; fmt/validate.

Essentials

Gotchas

  • State file (terraform.tfstate) contains secrets in plaintext: store it remotely with encryption and backend-native locking (S3 use_lockfile = true; Azure Blob lease locking)
  • lifecycle { prevent_destroy = true } blocks terraform destroy for that resource: useful for prod, painful in CI/test envs
  • terraform refresh updates state from real infra but doesn't show what changed: use terraform plan -refresh-only to preview drift
  • Provider version pinning lives in required_providers, not the resource block: unpinned providers break on minor upgrades

Progressive disclosure

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 7d ago Changed · +2 lines 56780e62fed3
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 95048899d7e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

terraform-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 598 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-08.

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