Admin

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Managing Grafana Cloud access
• Configuring SSO/SAML/OAuth
• Setting up service accounts for Terraform/CI/CD
• Assigning RBAC roles

Example prompts

• “set up SSO”
• “create a stack”
• “make a service account”
• “/admin”

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Invite users via POST /api/org/invites (one curl per user — see references/api-reference.md § Stack API)
2. 2Create the team via POST /api/teams
3. 3Add each user via POST /api/teams/{teamId}/members
4. 4Assign an RBAC role to the team (see § RBAC below)
5. 5Verify: GET /api/teams/{teamId}/members returns the expected user list

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1ccacf2. 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

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl
  • jq

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • grafana.com

  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

Admin loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 197 tokens; SKILL.md has 262 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~197

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.4k

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

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 grafana/skills at commit 1ccacf2, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© grafana). 262 words, ~1,492 tokens.

name

admin

description

Manage Grafana Cloud accounts — organizations, stacks, RBAC roles and assignments, SSO/SAML/OAuth/GitHub auth, service accounts for CI/CD, user invites, team membership, and API-driven provisioning. Creates stacks via the Cloud API, mints service-account tokens, applies role assignments, configures SSO providers, and provisions teams/folders/dashboards via Terraform. Use when managing Grafana Cloud access, configuring SSO/SAML/OAuth, setting up service accounts for Terraform/CI/CD, assigning RBAC roles, inviting users, managing multiple stacks or organizations, provisioning cloud resources via API or Terraform, or auditing admin actions — even when the user says "set up SSO", "create a stack", "make a service account", or "onboard a team" without explicitly saying "admin".

license

Apache-2.0

# 1. Create the stack via Cloud API
curl -X POST https://grafana.com/api/instances \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <grafana-com-api-key>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "my-new-stack", "slug": "my-new-stack", "region": "us-east-0", "plan": "grafana-cloud-free"}'

# 2. Verify the stack is reachable (poll until 200)
until curl -fs https://my-new-stack.grafana.net/api/health > /dev/null; do sleep 2; done

# 3. Mint an admin service-account token (see § Service Accounts below)

# 4. Test the token
curl https://my-new-stack.grafana.net/api/org -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
# Returns 200 + org JSON → token works

# 1. Delete via Cloud API
curl -X DELETE https://grafana.com/api/instances/{id} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <grafana-com-api-key>"

# 2. Verify the stack is gone (must return 404)
curl https://grafana.com/api/instances/{id} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <grafana-com-api-key>"

Grafana Cloud Account
└── Organization (billing unit)
    ├── Stack 1 (prod)   → dedicated Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo URLs
    ├── Stack 2 (staging)
    └── Stack 3 (dev)

# provisioning/access-control/roles.yaml
apiVersion: 1
roles:
  - name: TeamDashboardEditor
    description: Edit dashboards within team folder
    permissions:
      - action: dashboards:read
        scope: folders:UID:team-folder
      - action: dashboards:write
        scope: folders:UID:team-folder
      - action: dashboards:create
        scope: folders:UID:team-folder

# provisioning/access-control/assignments.yaml
apiVersion: 1
roleAssignments:
  - roleName: TeamDashboardEditor
    users:
      - alice@example.com
      - bob@example.com
    teams:
      - platform-team

# 1. Create the service account
curl -X POST https://yourstack.grafana.net/api/serviceaccounts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <admin-token>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "terraform-provisioner", "role": "Admin", "isDisabled": false}'

# 2. Mint a token for it
curl -X POST https://yourstack.grafana.net/api/serviceaccounts/{id}/tokens \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <admin-token>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "ci-token", "secondsToLive": 0}'

# 3. Verify the token works (test on a harmless endpoint)
curl https://yourstack.grafana.net/api/org \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <new-token>"
# 200 + org JSON → token works. Anything else → re-check role assignment in step 1.

# provisioning/access-control/service_accounts.yaml
apiVersion: 1
serviceAccounts:
  - name: alloy-writer
    orgId: 1
    role: Editor
    tokens:
      - name: alloy-token

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Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/grafana-cloud/admin of grafana/skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/api-reference.md
• references/sso.md
• references/terraform.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1ccacf2