arness

This skill should be used when the user says "define infrastructure", "generate IaC", "infra define", "arn infra define", "generate terraform", "generate opentofu", "generate pulumi", "generate cdk", "generate bicep", "create kubernetes manifests", "provision cloud resources", "create IaC", "infrastructure as code", or wants to generate infrastructure-as-code in their chosen IaC tool for configured cloud provider(s). It produces provider-specific infrastructure code, validates it through a multi-level validation ladder, and writes an infrastructure architecture spec.

This skill should be used when the user says "deploy", "deploy to staging", "deploy to production", "promote to production", "infra deploy", "arn infra deploy", "deploy infrastructure", "apply infrastructure", "push to prod", "go live", "tofu apply", "terraform apply", "pulumi up", "cdk deploy", "fly deploy", "deploy to railway", "release to prod", "promote environment", or wants to execute a deployment of their infrastructure to a target environment. This skill handles environment promotion, CI/CD enforcement, cost gates, safety layers, and resource tracking.

This skill should be used when the user says "discover tools", "infra discover", "arn infra discover", "arn-infra-discover", "audit tools", "check installed tools", "what tools do I have", "scan for MCPs", "check provider tools", "tool discovery", "discover infrastructure tools", "check my setup", "infra tooling", or wants to audit their installed infrastructure tools (MCPs, CLIs, Claude Code plugins), check authentication state, search for new official tools online, and produce a tooling manifest for the infrastructure workflow.

This skill should be used when the user says "document infra change", "infrastructure documentation", "generate runbook", "infra docs", "arn infra document", "create infra changelog", "document infrastructure", "generate infrastructure docs", "infra documentation", "create runbook", "generate changelog", "arn-infra-document-change", or wants to generate operational documentation (runbooks, architecture updates, changelogs, environment docs) from completed infrastructure changes.

This skill should be used when the user says "ensure config", "check arn infra config", "arn-infra-ensure-config", "verify arn infra setup", or wants to verify that Arness Infra configuration is present for the current project. This skill is primarily consumed as a reference by entry-point skills (arn-infra-wizard, arn-infra-assess) which read the `references/step-0-fast-path.md` reference as Step 0 before proceeding with their workflow.

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.

This skill should be used when the user says "execute infra change", "run infra plan", "apply infrastructure change", "execute change", "arn infra execute", "deploy infra plan", "execute infrastructure plan", "run infrastructure change", "apply infra plan", "infra execute", "arn-infra-execute-change", or wants to orchestrate the phased execution of a structured infrastructure change plan, invoking agents for IaC generation, security gates, cost gates, deployment, verification, and review.

This skill should be used when the user says "infra help", "arn infra help", "where am I in the pipeline", "what's next for infra", "infra status", "pipeline status", "infra pipeline", "arn-infra-help", "show infra pipeline", "what step am I on for infra", "infra workflow", "infrastructure status", "show infrastructure pipeline", or wants to see their current position in the Arness Infra workflow and get guidance on the next step. This skill detects whether the user is in Quick (interactive) mode or Full Pipeline mode and renders an ASCII diagram with the active stage marked.

Optional customization tool for infrastructure projects. This skill should be used when the user says "infra init", "arn infra init", "initialize infra", "setup infrastructure", "arn-infra-init", "configure infra", "init infra", "infrastructure setup", "set up infrastructure", "infra setup", "start infra", "configure arn infra", "add infrastructure to this project", "review infra config", "customize infra config", "infra settings", or wants to configure providers, environments, IaC tools, CI/CD platform, or review current infrastructure settings. Arness Infra auto-configures with sensible defaults on first skill invocation — this init is optional for basic usage but required for provider/environment configuration.

This skill should be used when the user says "migrate infrastructure", "arn infra migrate", "infra migrate", "move to AWS", "move to GCP", "move to Azure", "switch providers", "change cloud provider", "graduate from PaaS", "move from heroku", "move from fly.io", "consolidate providers", "infrastructure migration", "provider migration", "partial migration", "move database", "move services", "arn-infra-migrate", "infrastructure move", "cloud migration", or wants to migrate infrastructure between providers, graduate from PaaS to IaC, consolidate providers, or partially move specific services.

This skill should be used when the user says "set up monitoring", "arn infra monitor", "infra monitor", "configure monitoring", "set up observability", "add logging", "configure alerting", "set up alerts", "infrastructure monitoring", "add metrics", "set up cloudwatch", "configure grafana", "observability setup", "logging setup", "alerting setup", "health checks", "monitor infrastructure", "arn-infra-monitor", "set up cloud monitoring", "configure notifications", "prometheus", "datadog", "new relic", "sentry", or wants to set up logging, metrics collection, and alerting for their deployed infrastructure.

This skill should be used when the user says "infra pipeline", "arn infra pipeline", "create CI/CD pipeline", "set up deployment pipeline", "generate pipeline", "infra CI/CD", "deployment pipeline", "setup cicd", "generate github actions", "generate gitlab ci", "generate bitbucket pipeline", "infrastructure pipeline", "pipeline setup", "create deployment workflow", "cicd for infrastructure", "infra deployment pipeline", "set up infrastructure CI/CD", "arn-infra-pipeline", or wants to generate infrastructure-specific CI/CD pipelines with SOC 2 alignment, OIDC authentication, and environment-aware deployment stages.

This skill should be used when the user says "refresh infra references", "update tool versions", "check for new MCPs", "update infra patterns", "refresh registries", "arn infra refresh", "infra refresh", "update references", "check for updates", "refresh infrastructure tools", "update MCP servers", "refresh CLI versions", "update base images", "arn-infra-refresh", or wants to update the version-sensitive infrastructure reference files (tool versions, MCP packages, CLI commands, base image tags, IaC patterns) using online research.

This skill should be used when the user says "infra report", "report infra issue", "infra broke", "arn-infra-report", "infrastructure issue", "report deployment problem", "report infrastructure problem", "diagnose infra", "infra doctor", or wants to report a problem with an Arness Infra workflow skill. Invokes the arn-infra-doctor agent to diagnose the issue, then files a GitHub issue on the Arness plugin repository. Do NOT use this for filing issues on the user's own project — use /arn-code-create-issue for that.

This skill should be used when the user says "review infra change", "infrastructure review", "review infrastructure", "infra quality review", "arn infra review", "check infra change", "review infrastructure change", "infra change review", "quality check infrastructure", "arn-infra-review-change", "post-deployment review", or wants to perform a comprehensive post-execution quality review of completed infrastructure changes, producing a structured review report with a PASS/WARN/NEEDS_FIXES verdict.

This skill should be used when the user says "save infra plan", "save infrastructure plan", "structure infra plan", "create infra project", "finalize infra plan", "arn infra save plan", "infra save plan", "save change plan", "structure infrastructure plan", "finalize infrastructure plan", "arn-infra-save-plan", or wants to convert a PLAN_PREVIEW_INFRA_*.md into a structured project directory with infrastructure-specific templates, report templates, and progress tracking.

This skill should be used when the user says "manage secrets", "arn infra secrets", "infra secrets", "secrets management", "set up secrets", "configure secrets", "audit secrets", "secrets audit", "rotate secrets", "secret storage", "vault setup", "key management", "credential management", "secrets scan", "check for exposed secrets", "secrets provider", "arn-infra-secrets", "set up secret manager", "configure secret injection", "environment variables", "env vars", "secure env vars", or wants to set up, configure, audit, or manage secrets and credential storage for their infrastructure deployment.

This skill should be used when the user says "triage infra request", "infra triage", "arn infra triage", "process infra issue", "handle infra request", "infrastructure request", "triage infrastructure", "analyze infra issue", "infra request analysis", "process infrastructure request", or wants to process an incoming infrastructure request issue created by Arness Core or manually, analyze its infrastructure implications, and produce a structured implications brief.

This skill should be used when the user says "verify deployment", "verify infra", "check deployment", "arn infra verify", "infra verify", "health check", "check health", "verify staging", "verify production", "is my deployment healthy", "check if deployment worked", "run health checks", "deployment verification", "check infrastructure", "validate deployment", "verify environment", "post-deployment check", "infra health", "check dns", "check ssl", "verify endpoints", "smoke test", "integration test", or wants to validate that a deployed environment is healthy and its resources match the expected state. This skill runs health checks, DNS verification, SSL validation, resource state comparison, and updates issue labels and environments.md with verification results.

This skill should be used when the user says "infra wizard", "arn infra wizard", "guided infra", "walk me through infrastructure", "infrastructure pipeline", "full infra pipeline", "infra flow", "run the infra pipeline", "guide me through infrastructure", "infra guided mode", "infrastructure wizard", "end to end infrastructure", "deploy everything", "set up my infrastructure", "infra start to finish", "arn infra guided", "run infra wizard", "set up everything", "complete infra setup", or wants to be walked through the entire Arness infrastructure pipeline in a single continuous session with guided decision gates instead of invoking each skill manually.