What problem does it solve?
Engineering teams operating Google Cloud workloads often face unstructured troubleshooting, inconsistent IAM and cost audits, and unvalidated infrastructure designs that lead to outages, security gaps, and unnecessary spend.
Core Features & Use Cases
- 5-Phase Structured Investigation: Systematically gather context, diagnose issues, perform root-cause analysis, deliver prioritized recommendations, and verify fixes for any GCP workload.
- Specialized Domain Audits: Deep-dive reviews for IAM permissions, compute services (GKE, Cloud Run, GCE), networking, serverless workloads, and cost/quota management.
- IaC Fix Guidance: Provides exact Terraform or Config Connector diffs for identified issues, plus reference documentation for GCP best practices.
- Use Case: A team debugging GKE Workload Identity authentication failures can use this skill to pull IAM policies, cluster configs, and pod specs to identify annotation mismatches or missing bindings in minutes instead of hours.
Quick Start
Use the gcp-specialist skill to run a full architecture review of my GCP project [your-project-id], focusing on IAM permissions and GKE cluster configuration.