sota-cloud-infrastructure SKILL.md skillA

sota-cloud-infrastructure from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-cloud-infrastructure@git:20261012.ae1b29b

Pins git:20261012.ae1b29b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
martinholovsky/sota-skills
Path
skills/sota-cloud-infrastructure/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261012.ae1b29b, committed Oct 12, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 17, 2026
Size
10,663 bytes
Repository stars
23
License
CC-BY-4.0

State-of-the-art cloud infrastructure architecture (2026). Applies when designing, building, or auditing cloud environments on AWS, GCP, or Azure — account/project structure and landing zones, IAM and workload identity, VPC/network design, DNS/TLS/CDN, compute selection (serverless vs containers vs Kubernetes vs VMs), object storage and backup architecture, cost engineering (FinOps), and disaster recovery. Trigger keywords: cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, VPC, subnet, IAM…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# SOTA Cloud Infrastructure

## Purpose

This skill encodes the 2026 state of the art for cloud infrastructure architecture:
organizational structure, identity, networking, compute selection, data placement,
cost, and resilience. Every rule exists to prevent a real failure class — blast-radius
spread, credential theft, public data exposure, egress bill shock, unmeetable RTOs,
or a Kubernetes cluster nobody needed.

Boundaries with sibling skills — reference, do not duplicate:
- **[sota-devsecops](../sota-devsecops/SKILL.md)** owns CI/CD pipelines, IaC scanning, Terraform state security, GitOps.
- **[sota-sandboxing](../sota-sandboxing/SKILL.md)** owns container/runtime hardening (seccomp, rootless, distroless).
- **[sota-observability](../sota-observability/SKILL.md)** owns monitoring, alerting, SLOs, tracing.
- **[sota-databases](../sota-databases/SKILL.md)** owns database engine selection, schema, and query design.
- **[sota-secrets-management](../sota-secrets-management/SKILL.md)** owns secret storage and rotation mechanics.

This skill owns: what accounts/networks/identities/compute/storage exist, how they
connect, what they cost, and how they survive failure.

## BUILD mode
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-cloud-infrastructure@sha256:b625999e759cb40a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.ae1b29b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 117 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261012.ae1b29b latest2026-10-12 ae1b29b 10,663 BA view · diff
git:20260617.c5d2c7b2026-06-17 c5d2c7b 10,159 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10663 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

martinholovsky/sota-skills · 23 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2ydlv4okwqtgo7b4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-cloud-infrastructure
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b625999e759cb40a779ff8b9ef292d9b5a406209d9700b8671f7f01a3dac01f5

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