Arness Infra Env Agent Skill

This skill should be used when the user says "manage environments", "arn infra env", "infra env", "environment setup", "configure…

Context cost
7.3k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
3 files · 29.3 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—v1.0.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

This skill should be used when the user says "manage environments", "arn infra env", "infra env", "environment setup", "configure environments", "set up staging", "set up production", "environment management", "create environment", "environment promotion", "promote to staging", "promote to production", "environment isolation", "configure dev staging prod", "environment-specific config", "tfvars per environment", "arn-infra-env", or wants to configure, create, or manage infrastructure environments (dev/staging/production) with isolation strategies, variable overrides, and promotion rules.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

cloud
Filed under

Cloud & DevOps

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md12.5 kB · preview
--- name: arn-infra-env version: 1.0.0 ---
16# Arness Infra Env
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18Configure and manage infrastructure environments (dev, staging, production) with provider-specific isolation strategies, environment-specific variable overrides, resource sizing, and promotion rules. This skill generates environment-specific IaC configurations and updates the environment promotion pipeline.
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20This skill is expertise-adaptive: beginner users get simplified environment setups with opinionated defaults, while expert users have full control over isolation strategies and promotion configurations.
21
22## Prerequisites
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24Read ## Arness from the project's CLAUDE.md. If no ## Arness section exists or Arness Infra fields are missing, inform the user: "Arness Infra is not configured for this project yet. Run /arn-infra-wizard to get started — it will set everything up automatically." Do not proceed without it.
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26Check the **Deferred** field. If Deferred: yes, inform the user: "Infrastructure is in deferred mode. Environment management is not available until infrastructure is fully configured. Run /arn-infra-assess to un-defer." Stop.
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28Extract:
29- **Experience level** -- derived from user profile. Read ~/.arness/user-profile.yaml (or .claude/arness-profile.local.md if it exists — project override takes precedence). Apply the experience derivation mapping from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/arn-infra-ensure-config/references/experience-derivation.md. If no profile exists, check for legacy Experience level in ## Arness as fallback.
30- **Providers** -- cloud providers in use
31- **Providers config** -- path to providers.md for per-provider details
32- **Default IaC tool** -- the default IaC tool
33- **Environments** -- current environment list in promotion order
34- **Environments config** -- path to environments.md
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,655 words
Files3
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈170
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
7,155
on trigger
The instruction body and 2 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
3.7%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 37% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

7.3k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

3 files, 29.3 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md12.5 kB
  • references/environment-patterns.md8.0 kB
  • references/promotion-patterns.md8.8 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 3 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Arness Infra Env · 7.3k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/arness-infra-env/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/arness-infra-env" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/arness-infra-env ] || { mv .claude/skills/arness-infra-env "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/arness-infra-env" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/arness-infra-env"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add appsvortex/arness-infra-env

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/arness-infra-env/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/arness-infra-env/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/arness-infra-env" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/arness-infra-env ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/arness-infra-env "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/arness-infra-env" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/arness-infra-env" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/arness-infra-env/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as arn-infra-env in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, arness-infra-env.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version1.0.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceappsvortex/arness-infra-env

Versions

v1.0.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v1.0.0
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Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v1.0.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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