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GCP Cloud Architect

Design Google Cloud architectures, estimate costs, and generate deployment templates

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alirezarezvani/claude-skills
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MIT
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7 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent can help plan a Google Cloud setup for a web app, API, data pipeline or ML project. It walks through gathering requirements, suggesting a service pattern (such as Cloud Run with Firestore or GKE with Cloud SQL), flagging likely cost savings, and drafting Terraform and gcloud deployment commands plus a CI/CD config. It also provides a security checklist to review IAM, service accounts and secrets.

Great for

  • Small teams or startups choosing a first Google Cloud architecture
  • Developers who want draft Terraform or gcloud commands to start from
  • Engineers reviewing an existing GCP bill for right-sizing and discount opportunities

Skip it if

  • Production changes without review: the generated templates and cost figures are starting points, and the bundled scripts appear to produce illustrative output, so verify against real GCP pricing and your own security policy
  • Regulated workloads (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR) relying on the checklist alone, since it is a general outline and not a compliance audit

Try asking

  • “Design a serverless GCP architecture for a SaaS app expecting 500 requests per second on a $1,000 monthly budget”
  • “Review this gcloud billing export and suggest cost savings for our Cloud SQL and GKE spend”
  • “Generate Terraform for a Cloud Run service with Firestore in europe-west1”
  • “Migrate our on-prem Postgres app to GCP and list the services I would need”
Step-by-step guide: how to use GCP Cloud ArchitectInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 7 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    gcp-cloud-architect.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip gcp-cloud-architect.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip gcp-cloud-architect.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Provide concrete numbers (users, requests per second, monthly budget, data size) so the pattern recommendation is meaningful
  • Review every generated gcloud command and Terraform file before running it, especially --allow-unauthenticated and IAM bindings, and test in a non-production project first
  • Treat the cost figures in the example outputs as illustrative and confirm estimates with the GCP Pricing Calculator

What's inside

  • references/architecture_patterns.md
  • references/best_practices.md
  • references/service_selection.md
  • scripts/architecture_designer.py
  • scripts/cost_optimizer.py
  • scripts/deployment_manager.py
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from alirezarezvani/claude-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.