Agent skill

Atmos Lint

Atmos Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone atmos terraform lint, component-aware config discovery and toolchain versions, TFLint rule configuration, and lifecycle hooks/CI findings.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Atmos Lint

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cloudposse/atmos atmos-lint --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint .claude/skills/atmos-lint && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "atmos-lint" agent skill from https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint into .claude/skills/atmos-lint/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "atmos-lint", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cloudposse/atmos atmos-lint --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint .agents/skills/atmos-lint && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "atmos-lint" agent skill from https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint into .agents/skills/atmos-lint/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "atmos-lint", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cloudposse/atmos atmos-lint --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint .cursor/skills/atmos-lint && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "atmos-lint" agent skill from https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint into .cursor/skills/atmos-lint/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "atmos-lint", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git --path agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cloudposse/atmos atmos-lint --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint .gemini/skills/atmos-lint && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "atmos-lint" agent skill from https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint into .gemini/skills/atmos-lint/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "atmos-lint", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cloudposse/atmos atmos-lint

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint .github/skills/atmos-lint && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "atmos-lint" agent skill from https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint into .github/skills/atmos-lint/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "atmos-lint", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cloudposse/atmos atmos-lint --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint .opencode/skills/atmos-lint && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "atmos-lint" agent skill from https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos/tree/main/agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint into .opencode/skills/atmos-lint/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "atmos-lint", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: atmos-lint
GitHub stars: 1.4k
Token cost: ~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length: 406 words
Files: 2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo: 70
Repo updated: Oct 9, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Atmos Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone atmos terraform lint, component-aware config discovery and toolchain versions, TFLint rule configuration, and lifecycle hooks/CI findings.

Works in 4 steps: Component directory → Terraform components base path… → Git repository root → …
Documenting Terraform/OpenTofu linting in an Atmos project
SKILL.md covers Choose an execution mode, TFLint config discovery, Hooks and CI and Rules and TFLint capabilities
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Atmos Lint is an agent skill from cloudposse/atmos. Atmos Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone atmos terraform lint, component-aware config discovery and toolchain versions, TFLint rule configuration, and lifecycle hooks/CI findings. Use when configuring, running, debugging, or documenting Terraform/OpenTofu linting in an Atmos project.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/tflint.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Linting and formatting and Infrastructure as code. It works with Terraform. The repository describes itself as: Atmos is the open-source runtime for infrastructure — it builds, authenticates, and ships Terraform, OpenTofu, Packer, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, and containers the same way on… The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

Documenting Terraform/OpenTofu linting in an Atmos project
Tasks that involve Linting and formatting
Tasks that involve Infrastructure as code

Example prompts

“Use the atmos-lint skill to atmo Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone atmos terraform lint, component-aware config discovery and toolchain…”
“/atmos-lint”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Component directory
Terraform components base path (components.terraform.base_path)
Git repository root
components.terraform.lint.config (an absolute path or a path relative to the Atmos base path)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fbae93f. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are yaml and bash).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Atmos Lint loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 406 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them: ~1.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cloudposse/atmos at commit fbae93f, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© cloudposse). 406 words, ~1,096 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/atmos-lint/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.

name: atmos-lint
description: Atmos Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone `atmos terraform lint`, component-aware config discovery and toolchain versions, TFLint rule configuration, and lifecycle hooks/CI findings. Use when configuring, running, debugging, or documenting Terraform/OpenTofu linting in an Atmos project.
metadata.copyright: Copyright Cloud Posse, LLC 2026
metadata.version: 1.0.0
metadata.category: ci-automation

Atmos Linting

Use this skill to design or operate Terraform/OpenTofu linting in Atmos. Prefer the native atmos terraform lint command for deliberate lint runs and the tflint hook kind for linting as part of a Terraform lifecycle.

Choose an execution mode

Need	Use
Check one component or every component without plan/apply	`atmos terraform lint`
Check only changed component sources	`atmos terraform lint --affected`
Enforce lint before or after a Terraform action	`kind: tflint` hook
Run a provider-plugin initialization command or a bespoke script	`kind: command` hook or workflow step

shell

# All Terraform component directories, once each (default)
atmos terraform lint
atmos terraform lint --all

# A component; Atmos selects a stack context deterministically when needed
atmos terraform lint vpc
atmos terraform lint vpc --stack test

# Changed Terraform components only
atmos terraform lint --affected

Atmos resolves the selected component instance before linting. Declare tflint under that component's dependencies.tools to pin the binary version; Atmos installs it and supplies its PATH for that lint execution. A component used by multiple stacks is linted once, with a deterministic stack context used only to resolve its settings and toolchain.

yaml

components:
  terraform:
    vpc:
      dependencies:
        tools:
          tflint: "0.59.1"

Do not use atmos toolchain install as a prerequisite for normal component linting when dependencies.tools declares TFLint. Use it only to warm a cache or troubleshoot an interactive shell. For precedence of tool declarations, load atmos-toolchain.

TFLint config discovery

When no hook or workflow explicitly passes --config, Atmos finds .tflint.hcl in this order. The most-specific existing path wins:

Component directory
Terraform components base path (components.terraform.base_path)
Git repository root
components.terraform.lint.config (an absolute path or a path relative to the Atmos base path)

Use the explicit lint.config setting for a nonstandard shared config path:

yaml

components:
  terraform:
    lint:
      config: config/tflint/company.hcl

The tflint hook and TFLint workflow step use the same discovery. An explicit --config in their args is intentional and overrides discovery.

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Hooks and CI

Use a component hook when lint must be enforced for normal Terraform commands. Choose the earliest event that gives the desired feedback; static TFLint checks usually belong before init or plan.

yaml

components:
  terraform:
    vpc:
      dependencies:
        tools:
          tflint: "0.59.1"
      hooks:
        lint:
          events:
            - before.terraform.plan
          kind: tflint
          on_failure: fail

The built-in hook runs TFLint with --chdir=$ATMOS_COMPONENT_PATH and --format=sarif. Its default on_failure: warn reports findings without blocking the Terraform command; set on_failure: fail to make lint gating. SARIF is captured from stdout and can render terminal summaries, CI annotations, and code-scanning results.

Use a kind: command hook for provider plugin initialization when required:

yaml

hooks:
  tflint-init:
    events:
      - before.terraform.plan
    kind: command
    command: tflint --chdir=$ATMOS_COMPONENT_PATH --init

Keep initialization and lint separate so its network/plugin behavior is clear. Load atmos-hooks for hook inheritance, conditions, and failure handling; load atmos-ci for CI integration.

Rules and TFLint capabilities

Read references/tflint.md before changing rules, adding provider plugins, or selecting TFLint flags. Preserve an existing project's config style and run the exact component or --affected selection that verifies the intended scope.

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint of cloudposse/atmos.

SKILL.md
references/tflint.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fbae93f

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Questions about Atmos Lint

What does Atmos Lint do?

Atmos Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone atmos terraform lint, component-aware config discovery and toolchain versions, TFLint rule configuration, and lifecycle hooks/CI findings. Atmos Lint is an agent skill from cloudposse/atmos. Atmos Terraform linting with TFLint: standalone atmos terraform lint, component-aware config discovery and toolchain versions, TFLint rule configuration, and lifecycle hooks/CI findings.

When should I use Atmos Lint?

Atmos Lint fits situations like: documenting Terraform/OpenTofu linting in an Atmos project; tasks that involve Linting and formatting; tasks that involve Infrastructure as code.

How do I install Atmos Lint in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint in cloudposse/atmos) into .claude/skills/atmos-lint in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Atmos Lint in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (agent-skills/skills/atmos-lint in cloudposse/atmos) into .agents/skills/atmos-lint in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Atmos Lint in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-lint -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/atmos-lint, .gemini/skills/atmos-lint, .github/skills/atmos-lint and .opencode/skills/atmos-lint in your project.

What does Atmos Lint need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Atmos Lint is instructions for the agent only.

Does Atmos Lint access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Atmos Lint safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Atmos Lint use?

Atmos Lint is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Atmos Lint use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 782 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Atmos Lint?

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Who maintains Atmos Lint?

cloudposse (a GitHub organization) maintains it in cloudposse/atmos, which has 1,398 GitHub stars. The repository holds 70 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: cloudposse/atmos on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Atmos Lint

Install Atmos Lint

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Atmos Linting

Choose an execution mode

TFLint config discovery

Hooks and CI

Rules and TFLint capabilities

Files

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Questions about Atmos Lint

Install Atmos Lint

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Atmos Linting

Choose an execution mode

TFLint config discovery

Hooks and CI

Rules and TFLint capabilities

Files

Compare with similar skills

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