What is google-cloud-recipe-auth?
google-cloud-recipe-auth is a Claude skill by google that provides expert guidance on authenticating and authorizing to Google Cloud services and APIs, covering human users, service identities, Application Default Credentials (ADC), and b. It is listed under Cloud & DevOps and has 21,385 GitHub stars.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | |
| Repository | google/skills |
| Popularity | 21,385 GitHub stars |
| Category | Cloud & DevOps |
| Security | Low risk (92/100) |
| Rank | #313 of 1,262 Claude skills; #11 in Cloud & DevOps |
| SKILL.md length | 261 lines |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 2026-10-16 |
| Stars this week | +205 |
Is google-cloud-recipe-auth safe to install?
google-cloud-recipe-auth scores 92/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 7 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Reads keys or credentials | Note |
| Makes network requests | Note |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
What the scan matched
- credentials:
credentials - network:
https://
How do I install google-cloud-recipe-auth?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/google/skills --skill google-cloud-recipe-auth
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/google/skills cp -r skills/skills/cloud/google-cloud-recipe-auth ~/.claude/skills/google-cloud-recipe-auth
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the google-cloud-recipe-auth skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs google-cloud-recipe-auth for you:
Install the "google-cloud-recipe-auth" skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-recipe-auth into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.
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