cloud-architect SKILL.md skillA
cloud-architect from jeffallan/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jeffallan/claude-skills/cloud-architect@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jeffallan/claude-skills
- Path
skills/cloud-architect/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 6, 2026
- Size
- 7,539 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12,006
- License
- MIT
Designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Use when designing cloud architectures, planning migrations, or optimizing multi-cloud deployments. Invoke for Well-Architected Framework, cost optimization, disaster recovery, landing zones, security architecture, serverless design.
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
# Cloud Architect
## 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, validate connectivity before cutover
6. **Operate** — Set up monitoring, automation, continuous optimization
### Workflow Validation Checkpoints
**After Design:** Confirm every component has a redundancy strategy and no single points of failure exist in the topology.
**Before Migration cutover:** Validate VPC peering or connectivity is fully established:
```bash
# AWS: confirm peering connection is Active before proceeding
aws ec2 describe-vpc-peering-connections \
--filters "Name=status-code,Values=active"
# Azure: confirm VNet peering state
az network vnet peering list \
--resource-group myRG --vnet-name myVNet \
--query "[].{Name:name,State:peeringState}"
```
**After Migration:** Verify application health and routing:
```bash
# AWS: check target group health in ALB
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How to install
mdr add jeffallan/claude-skills/cloud-architect@sha256:7b695213a69c620eThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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 5 versions of this file, between Mar 6, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 53 days.
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-10-03 | 958e60f | 7,539 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-03 | ec755b7 | 7,457 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-04-29 | efebc44 | 7,363 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-03-06 | c7afefb | 7,264 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-06 | cba3273 | 7,264 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7539 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
jeffallan/claude-skills · 12,006 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6mnvxcsr6yub6ema GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jeffallan/claude-skills/cloud-architect GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7b695213a69c620eb85cbedffa6c9445b3ef8b1a7261b107f75c15f47c5ed92d
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