zia-create-cloud-app-control-rule

zia-create-cloud-app-control-rule is a skill for Claude Code from zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server. It costs 284 tokens per session (8,511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating Zscaler Internet Access rules that control specific actions inside cloud applications. Examples include file uploads or webmail attachments, rather than only allowing or blocking an entire application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Cloud App Control rules for services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, ChatGPT, GitHub, YouTube, or Slack, then activate the staged changes.
Why use it?
It addresses the need for more precise cloud-application controls. Administrators can limit particular activities while defining the rule's scope.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the zscaler plugin — 42 skills, 20 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to create Cloud App Control rules for services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, ChatGPT, GitHub, YouTube, or Slack, then activate the staged changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server/create-cloud-app-control-rule
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server --skill create-cloud-app-control-rule
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zscaler, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 20 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 284 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,511 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 12
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00284 $0.08511
Opus 5 $0.00142 $0.04255
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.01702
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00851

Measured 9d ago against content hash ec95f58117bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zia-create-cloud-app-control-rule 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/zia/create-cloud-app-control-rule/SKILL.md · 361 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 361 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ZIA: Create Cloud App Control Rule

How to talk to the admin

  • Don't narrate tool calls, search filters, JMESPath expressions, or internal lookup logic. Just confirm what was created and which scoping was applied.
  • Empty list responses are authoritative. If a zia_list_* lookup returns no match for an exact-name search, treat the resource as "does not exist." Do not retry with split keywords or unfiltered listings.
  • Don't claim a tool doesn't exist without checking. If zia_create_* and zia_get_* are visible for a resource, the matching zia_list_* exists too.
  • Don't narrate strategy pivots. If you have to retry quietly, retry quietly and report only the final outcome.
  • After every successful create, mention the activation step explicitly — ZIA changes are staged until activated. The agent must call zia_activate_configuration() and tell the admin the change is now live.

Scope of this skill

This skill creates one or more Cloud App Control rules per invocation. When the admin names multiple cloud apps in one request, the skill creates one rule per app (see "Multi-app handling" below) — that is intentional, not a violation of scope. Anything outside that scope is a hard stop:

  • It does not create the auxiliary objects the rule references (location IDs, label IDs, group/department/user IDs, device groups, time intervals). If those don't exist, this skill stops and points the admin at the right place to create them — it does not improvise.
  • It does not modify SSL Inspection, Cloud Firewall, URL Filtering, DLP, File Type Control, or any other ZIA rule type. Those are separate resource types and have their own skills (zia-create-ssl-inspection-rule, zia-create-firewall-filtering-rule, zia-create-url-filtering-rule). Cloud App Control is not the same as URL Filtering — URL Filtering blocks at the URL/category level; Cloud App Control allows or blocks specific operations (upload, share, edit, comment, attach) inside an application.
  • It does not bypass SSL inspection. Cloud App Control needs the traffic to be decrypted to enforce action-level decisions. If the traffic is in a DO_NOT_DECRYPT SSL Inspection rule, the action enforcement will not happen — surface this as a known limitation if the admin asks why a rule isn't taking effect.

Read the full file on GitHub · 361 lines

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 · 361 lines · 284 tokens per session scan A ec95f58117bc

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zia-create-cloud-app-control-rule is a skill published in the GitHub repository zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server (50 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 284 tokens to every session and 8,511 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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