Alibabacloud Network Eip Associate

ReviewAudited by ClawScan on May 10, 2026.

Overview

The skill is a coherent Alibaba Cloud EIP automation guide, but it can change cloud networking, incur EIP costs, and uses local Alibaba Cloud credentials.

Install only if you intend to let the agent manage Alibaba Cloud EIPs. Use a dedicated least-privilege Aliyun CLI profile, verify every region and resource ID, understand any EIP billing impact, and avoid running the broader create/delete commands in the reference files unless you explicitly want a test environment.

Findings (5)

Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.

What this means

The agent can allocate public IP resources, bind them to cloud services, unbind them, or release them, which can affect availability, public exposure, and billing.

Why it was flagged

The skill instructs the agent to perform real cloud networking mutations, including EIP allocation, binding, and cleanup.

Skill content
Focus: EIP product capabilities only - allocation, binding, verification, and cleanup.
Recommendation

Use the skill only with explicit region and resource IDs, review each command before execution, and confirm any billing-related EIP allocation parameters.

What this means

Credentials used by the Aliyun CLI may be able to modify cloud networking and billing resources.

Why it was flagged

The documented RAM permissions allow creating, attaching, detaching, and releasing EIPs in the user's Alibaba Cloud account.

Skill content
`vpc:AllocateEipAddress`, `vpc:AssociateEipAddress`, `vpc:UnassociateEipAddress`, `vpc:ReleaseEipAddress`
Recommendation

Use a dedicated least-privilege RAM user or temporary STS credentials scoped to the intended region and resources where possible.

What this means

Running a remote installer executes code from the CLI provider on the user's machine.

Why it was flagged

The setup guidance includes a remote shell installer for Aliyun CLI; it is user-directed and relevant, but not pinned or checksummed in the artifact.

Skill content
run `curl -fsSL https://aliyuncli.alicdn.com/setup.sh | bash` to update
Recommendation

Prefer package-manager installation where possible, verify the download source, and avoid running remote scripts in privileged shells unless trusted.

What this means

Future Aliyun CLI operations may run against a different region than the user expects if the setting is not restored.

Why it was flagged

Changing the Aliyun CLI profile region can persist beyond the current task and affect later commands run by the user or agent.

Skill content
Before running any VPC command, you MUST set the CLI profile region to match the target region: `aliyun configure set --region {REGION}`
Recommendation

Record the previous CLI profile region before using the skill, or use an isolated profile for this task.

What this means

If treated as workflow instructions instead of test/reference material, these commands could create or delete unrelated cloud resources.

Why it was flagged

A reference/testing document lists broader create/delete cloud-resource commands that go beyond the main SKILL.md principle of operating only on existing resources.

Skill content
`create-default-vpc`, `create-vswitch`, `create-nat-gateway`, `run-instances`, `delete-instance`, `delete-vpc`
Recommendation

Follow the main SKILL.md constraints: only use user-provided existing resources unless the user explicitly asks for a separate test environment.