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Windows Builder

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hashicorp·vlatest·backend·MPL-2.0

Windows Builder automates Windows infrastructure provisioning & management, streamlining deployments and reducing operational overhead for HashiCorp tools.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add hashicorp/agent-skills --skill windows-builder -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

hashicorp

Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

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 undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: community.chocolatey.org.

    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.

    Hosts contacted

    community.chocolatey.orgundeclared

    What it found

    • plugins/packer/skills/windows-builder/SKILL.md:108contacts community.chocolatey.org
      "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))"

  • 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 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 credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • 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 hashicorp/agent-skills at f706481af9.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
f706481af9
Manifest
plugins/packer/skills/windows-builder/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 175 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

The windows-builder skill enables AI agents to construct and manage Windows-based development environments, specifically focusing on setting up toolchains required for building software. It automates the installation of essential dependencies like compilers, build tools, and runtime libraries tailored for Windows architectures. This capability ensures that agents can prepare isolated, reproducible environments for compiling code without manual intervention.

  • Set up cross-compilation toolchains for generating binaries targeting different Windows subsystems (e.g., Win32, UWP).

  • Install and configure specific build utilities such as MSVC, CMake, or Rust targets within a containerized context.

  • Prepare environments for testing applications against various Windows versions or kernel configurations.

  • Manage dependency resolution for complex software projects requiring native Windows libraries.

  • Cross-compilation support for multiple Windows subsystems

  • Automated installation of native build tools (MSVC, CMake)

  • Environment isolation and reproducibility

  • Dependency management for native Windows libraries

"Set up a cross-compilation environment for generating x64 Windows binaries using MSVC." "Install the necessary toolchain to build a UWP application on this Windows agent." "Configure a reproducible build environment with CMake and all required dependencies for a .NET project."

This skill requires the underlying AI agent to have access to a Windows host or container runtime. Users should verify that the specific version of Windows tools needed (e.g., Visual Studio 2022 vs. 2019) is explicitly requested, as older versions may not be available by default in newer environments.