Overview
What It Does
Google Cloud Recipe Auth packages a focused devops & cloud workflow for an AI agent. Provides expert guidance on authenticating and authorizing to Google Cloud services and APIs, covering human users, service identities, Application Default Credentials (ADC), and best practices for secure access. It is best suited to users who can review the resulting actions and provide only the accounts, files, or command access needed for the task. It is not a substitute for human approval on destructive, financial, security-sensitive, or public-facing actions.
Task ideas
Popular Use Cases
- Inspect deployment or infrastructure state
- Automate a repeatable operations task
- Troubleshoot configuration and runtime issues
- Apply documented production practices
Installation
Install this Agent Skill
Claude Code
npx skills add https://github.com/google/skills --skill google-cloud-recipe-authCommands derived from the public GitHub SKILL.md record. Checked 2026-09-02. Review the source before running them.
Before you start
Requirements
| Claude Code | Required / review |
| Codex | Required / review |
| Public SKILL.md source | Required / review |
| Review instructions and requested permissions before installation | Required / review |
| Paid service | Check source |
| Supported system | Check source |
Popularity context
Why It’s Popular
Google Cloud Recipe Auth is a verified Agent Skill from google with a public SKILL.md, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI.
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