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Workload Manager Basics

Lets an agent run Google Cloud Workload Manager best-practice evaluations and read violations via client libraries or REST

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Repository
google/skills
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21,782
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
10 files

What it does

It teaches an AI agent how to work with Google Cloud Workload Manager, a service that checks cloud projects against best-practice rules. Once installed, the agent knows how to list rules, define a scope (project, folder, or organization), create and run an evaluation, and read the findings, including optional export to BigQuery. The skill provides Python and REST examples and points to IAM roles to use, but it does not include any scripts of its own.

Great for

  • Cloud engineers who want to automate Workload Manager evaluations in code
  • Teams checking SAP, SQL Server, or general Google Cloud best practices across projects
  • Developers writing custom Rego rules for organizational policy checks

Skip it if

  • Routine Compute Engine instance management or VPC setup, which the skill explicitly excludes
  • Anyone without a Google Cloud project and permissions, since real results require access to the live API and billing
  • Quick security audits of IAM alone, which the skill says it does not cover

Try asking

  • “List the Workload Manager rules that apply to my project in us-central1”
  • “Create and run an evaluation for my production project and summarize the violations”
  • “Write a Python script that exports Workload Manager results to BigQuery”
  • “Show me the REST API call to poll a long-running evaluation operation”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Workload Manager BasicsInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 10 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    workload-manager-basics.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip workload-manager-basics.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip workload-manager-basics.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

  • Start with read-only access (roles/workloadmanager.viewer) and only grant evaluation admin roles when you need to create or run evaluations
  • Ask the agent to confirm the project and location before it creates or runs anything, since evaluations scan live resources
  • Note that the skill tells the agent to fall back to static example findings when API calls fail, so check whether results are real or illustrative

What's inside

  • references/attribution.md
  • references/client-library-usage.md
  • references/core-concepts.md
  • references/general-best-practices.md
  • references/iam-security.md
  • references/public-cli-status.md
  • references/public-mcp-status.md
  • references/rest-usage.md
  • references/setup-prerequisites.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from google/skills under the Apache-2.0 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.