Individual skill

iam-best-practices

Least-privilege cloud IAM: policy scope, privilege-escalation paths, permissions boundaries, workload identity over static keys, MFA enforced by policy, cross-account trust, and separating deploy from runtime. Use when generating IAM policies, roles, or trust documents, wiring CI/CD service accounts or workload identities, delegating role creation, or designing cross-account access.

skills/iam-best-practices/SKILL.md

Read pinned source

Source commit eaba88102d91df65a9aa6397e8507c315c018f5e

What was checked

Matches the observed repository HEAD: Yes
Scanner rules are current: No
Repository scan complete: No
Skill scan complete: Yes
Observed behavior: Not checked yet
Last checked: Nov 6, 2026

These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.

Install this skill

Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.

Standard SKILL.md format has not been attested at this commit. No installation command is available; inspect the source.

Repository context

Repository stars (not skill ratings): 23
Repository last updated: Aug 14, 2026
License: MIT

Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.

claude-skills Repository topic
llm Repository topic
security Repository topic
skills Repository topic
devops Derived category

Files and excerpt

File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.

Browse files

SKILL.mdcore · 9,061 bytes
references/escalation-paths.mddoc · 4,769 bytes
references/verifying-findings.mddoc · 3,174 bytes
rules/iam_policy_invariants.jsonasset · 3,391 bytes
rules/key_rotation_policy.jsonasset · 2,561 bytes
tests/corpus.jsonasset · 4,765 bytes

Read excerpt


# Identity & Access Management Best Practices

## Rules (for AI agents)

### ALWAYS
- Grant the minimum permissions the workload's stated job requires: deny by default,
  then add concrete actions against concrete resources. A wildcard action on a
  wildcard resource — in a custom policy, in `AdministratorAccess`, or in `iam:*`
  attached to something that runs continuously — is the same finding wearing three
  different names.
- Read a policy for the **privileges it can reach**, not only the ones it names. A
  principal that can write policy (`iam:PutRolePolicy`, `iam:AttachRolePolicy`,
  `iam:CreatePolicyVersion`) can grant itself anything, and a principal that can pass
  a role into a compute service it may also create (`iam:PassRole` with