Create Infrastructure

What it does

When your agent uses it

• User says create infrastructure
• Infrastructure definition
• K8s cluster config
• Deployment target

Example prompts

• “create infrastructure”
• “infrastructure definition”
• “k8s cluster config”
• “/create-infrastructure”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires Harness MCP v2 server (harness-mcp-v2)

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Identify infrastructure type - KubernetesDirect, KubernetesGcp (GKE), KubernetesAzure (AKS), ECS, or ServerlessAwsLambda
2. 2Ensure prerequisites exist - The environment and cloud/cluster connector must be created first
3. 3Generate YAML using the templates below, referencing the correct connector and environment
4. 4Create via MCP using harness_create with resource_type infrastructure

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c25faee. 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).

  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.

• Compatibility

  Requires Harness MCP v2 server (harness-mcp-v2)

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Create Infrastructure loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 215 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~68

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

~1.3k

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 harness/harness-skills at commit c25faee, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© harness). 215 words, ~1,258 tokens.

name

create-infrastructure

description

Generate Harness Infrastructure Definition YAML for deployment targets and create via MCP. Use when user says "create infrastructure", "infrastructure definition", "k8s cluster config", "deployment target", or wants to configure where workloads run.

compatibility

Requires Harness MCP v2 server (harness-mcp-v2)

metadata.author

Harness

metadata.version

2.0.0

metadata.mcp-server

harness-mcp-v2

license

Apache-2.0

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: K8s Production
  identifier: k8s_prod
  orgIdentifier: default
  projectIdentifier: my_project
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: Kubernetes
  type: KubernetesDirect
  spec:
    connectorRef: k8s_connector
    namespace: my-app-prod
    releaseName: release-<+INFRA_KEY_SHORT_ID>
  allowSimultaneousDeployments: false

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: GKE Cluster
  identifier: gke_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: Kubernetes
  type: KubernetesGcp
  spec:
    connectorRef: gcp_connector
    cluster: my-gke-cluster
    namespace: my-app
    releaseName: release-<+INFRA_KEY_SHORT_ID>

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: AKS Cluster
  identifier: aks_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: Kubernetes
  type: KubernetesAzure
  spec:
    connectorRef: azure_connector
    subscriptionId: <subscription_id>
    resourceGroup: my-rg
    cluster: my-aks-cluster
    namespace: my-app
    releaseName: release-<+INFRA_KEY_SHORT_ID>

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: ECS Fargate
  identifier: ecs_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: ECS
  type: ECS
  spec:
    connectorRef: aws_connector
    region: us-east-1
    cluster: my-ecs-cluster

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: Lambda
  identifier: lambda_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: ServerlessAwsLambda
  type: ServerlessAwsLambda
  spec:
    connectorRef: aws_connector
    region: us-east-1
    stage: prod

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: Azure Web App
  identifier: azure_webapp_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: AzureWebApp
  type: AzureWebApp
  spec:
    connectorRef: azure_connector
    subscriptionId: <subscription_id>
    resourceGroup: my-rg

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: ASG Production
  identifier: asg_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: Asg
  type: Asg
  spec:
    connectorRef: aws_connector
    region: us-east-1

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: Cloud Functions
  identifier: gcf_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: GoogleCloudFunctions
  type: GoogleCloudFunctions
  spec:
    connectorRef: gcp_connector
    region: us-central1
    project: my-gcp-project

infrastructureDefinition:
  name: On-Prem Servers
  identifier: pdc_prod
  environmentRef: prod
  deploymentType: Ssh
  type: Pdc
  spec:
    connectorRef: pdc_connector
    hosts:
      - host1.example.com
      - host2.example.com

Call MCP tool: harness_create
Parameters:
  resource_type: "infrastructure"
  org_id: "<organization>"
  project_id: "<project>"
  body: <infrastructure YAML>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/create-infrastructure of harness/harness-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c25faee