Ansible Inventory
ListedDynamically generate Ansible inventory from cloud providers and custom data sources using this powerful agent skill.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
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Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add thebushidocollective/han --skill ansible-inventory -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
thebushidocollective
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Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.
No credential access: failed
Touches credential material in 2 places.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
What it found
- plugins/tools/ansible/skills/ansible-inventory/SKILL.md:705SSH private keys or config
web1 ansible_host=192.168.1.10 ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/web_key - plugins/tools/ansible/skills/ansible-inventory/SKILL.md:721SSH private keys or config
ansible_ssh_private_key_file: ~/.ssh/ansible_key
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Makes no network calls.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned thebushidocollective/han at 19caa51d5f.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- 19caa51d5f
- Scanned
- 1 file, 844 lines
About this skill
What it does
This skill allows AI agents to interact with and manage Ansible inventories. It enables querying inventory data, dynamically generating inventory lists based on provided criteria, and potentially updating inventory files (depending on agent permissions). The primary goal is to simplify infrastructure management tasks by leveraging the power of Ansible within an AI-driven workflow.
When to use it
- Dynamic Host Discovery: Automatically generate a list of servers for deployment based on tags or other attributes defined in your Ansible inventory.
- Inventory Validation: Check if hosts listed in an inventory file are reachable and report any issues.
- Infrastructure Provisioning: Use the skill to retrieve host information from an inventory before initiating provisioning tasks.
- Troubleshooting: Quickly query specific details about a server (e.g., IP address, hostname) directly from your Ansible inventory.
Key capabilities
- Query Ansible inventory data
- Dynamically generate inventory lists
- Manage and update inventory files (potential - depends on permissions)
Example prompts
- "What are the hostnames of all servers tagged 'web' in my ansible inventory?"
- "Generate an Ansible inventory list containing only hosts with a role of 'database'."
- "Show me the IP address for server 'appserver01' from the production Ansible inventory."
Tips & gotchas
- Ensure the AI agent has appropriate permissions to access and modify the Ansible inventory files. Read-only access is common, limiting update capabilities.