Ephemeral resources (Terraform 1.10+) produce values that are never persisted to state or plan. They exist for exactly one job: handing secrets — tokens, generated passwords, short-lived certificates, decrypted values — to the parts of a configuration that need them, without writing them to disk. Any data source that returns a sensitive value is a candidate to be (or to also exist as) an ephemeral resource.
Provider Ephemeral Resources is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when adding an ephemeral resource, exposing secrets/tokens/certificates that must never persist in state or plan, deciding between an ephemeral resource and a data source, or wiring short-lived credentials from one provider into another.
The Provider Ephemeral Resources Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 211,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\provider-ephemeral-resources\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Provider Ephemeral Resources is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{provider-ephemeral-resources-2026,
author = {filippolmt},
title = {Provider Ephemeral Resources [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/provider-ephemeral-resources/}
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