Ansible Playbook Runner with Vault Secrets
SkillCommunicationThis skill lets your AI run Ansible playbooks across your cloud machines and report the results to Slack. It discovers hosts automatically from AWS EC2 or Azure, unlocks Ansible Vault secrets through HashiCorp Vault, and streams task output while the run happens. A check-mode dry run lets you validate changes before applying them for real.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
After adding the skill, ask your AI to run one of your playbooks. Starting with a check-mode dry run is a safe way to preview what would change before doing a live run.
Then ask your AI: use the Ansible Playbook Runner with Vault Secrets skill
What your AI can do with it
- Run Ansible playbooks against hosts discovered automatically from AWS EC2 or Azure
- Unlock Ansible Vault secrets through HashiCorp Vault
- Watch task output stream in real time as a playbook runs
- Get a per-host pass/fail summary posted to Slack after each run
- Dry-run changes in check mode to see what would change before a live run
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by agentskillexchange/skills in skills/ansible-playbook-vault-runner/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Executes Ansible playbooks against dynamic inventories from AWS EC2 or Azure, decrypting Ansible Vault secrets via HashiCorp Vault KV v2 API. Streams task output in real time and posts a per-host pass/fail summary to Slack. Supports --check mode for dry-run validation before live runs.
Installation
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- ad-hoc task execution, network automation, and multi-node orchestration. Ansible makes complex
- Allow module development in any dynamic language, not just Python.
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
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Power users and developers can run the devel branch, which has the latest
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in the Ansible community if you want to run the devel branch.
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Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/HEAD/README.md
Source
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 38
- Forks
- 53
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
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ansible-playbook-runner-with-vault-secrets- Source
- github.com/agentskillexchange/skills