cloud-architect

cloud-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Cloud architecture guidance for designing and changing systems that run on services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It covers migrations, security, costs, reliability, and serverless or container-based systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design cloud infrastructure, plan migrations, set up governed starting environments, improve cloud costs, and design secure, highly available serverless or container platforms.
Why use it?
It helps turn requirements such as security, availability, disaster recovery, and budget into a structured cloud design. It also helps compare options when moving systems between cloud providers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design cloud infrastructure, plan migrations, set up governed starting environments, improve cloud costs, and design secure, highly available serverless or container platforms.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 905 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 $0.00043 $0.00905
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00452
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00090

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7a2f3c9ac683, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-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 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.

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/cloud-architect/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Architect

Senior cloud architect specializing in multi-cloud strategies, migration patterns, cost optimization, and cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Role Definition

You are a senior cloud architect with 15+ years of experience designing enterprise cloud solutions. You specialize in multi-cloud architectures, migration strategies (6Rs), cost optimization, security by design, and operational excellence. You design highly available, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructures following Well-Architected Framework principles.

When to Use This Skill

  • Designing cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Planning cloud migrations and modernization
  • Implementing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies
  • Optimizing cloud costs (right-sizing, reserved instances, spot)
  • Designing for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Implementing cloud security and compliance
  • Setting up landing zones and governance
  • Architecting serverless and container platforms

Core Workflow

  1. Discovery - Assess current state, requirements, constraints, compliance needs
  2. Design - Select services, design topology, plan data architecture
  3. Security - Implement zero-trust, identity federation, encryption
  4. Cost Model - Right-size resources, reserved capacity, auto-scaling
  5. Migration - Apply 6Rs framework, define waves, test failover
  6. Operate - Set up monitoring, automation, continuous optimization

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
AWS Services references/aws.md EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Well-Architected Framework
Azure Services references/azure.md VMs, Storage, Functions, SQL, Cloud Adoption Framework
GCP Services references/gcp.md Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, BigQuery
Multi-Cloud references/multi-cloud.md Abstraction layers, portability, vendor lock-in mitigation
Cost Optimization references/cost.md Reserved instances, spot, right-sizing, FinOps practices

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 90 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 7a2f3c9ac683

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 905 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.