tencentcloud-cvm-skill

What This Skill Does

The tencentcloud-cvm-skill is a comprehensive automation toolkit designed for managing Tencent Cloud CVM (Cloud Virtual Machine) instances directly from your terminal or via the OpenClaw AI agent. By leveraging the official tccli command-line tool, this skill abstracts complex API calls into simple, reusable Bash scripts. It is structured into four main functional areas: lifecycle management, resource discovery, server operations, and utility helpers. Whether you need to provision a new server for a specific web application, query available zones for low-latency hosting, or perform remote system diagnostics via SSH without logging into a web console, this skill provides a unified interface to streamline your cloud infrastructure management.

Installation

To begin, ensure you have the required dependencies: tccli, jq (for JSON processing), and sshpass (for automated SSH authentication). You can install these via your system package manager (e.g., brew or apt). Once the dependencies are ready, export your TENCENTCLOUD_SECRET_ID and TENCENTCLOUD_SECRET_KEY into your environment variables. Finally, install the skill into your OpenClaw environment using the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/gardenchan/tencentcloud-cvm-skill. Ensure your environment variables are configured in the execution shell to allow the skill to authenticate with Tencent Cloud APIs successfully.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for DevOps engineers, developers, and system administrators who frequently interact with Tencent Cloud. Common use cases include: automated deployment pipelines where instances are created and configured dynamically based on environment needs; infrastructure auditing to list VPCs, subnets, and available machine types; and emergency remote troubleshooting using the provided ops modules. The recommend-instance.sh feature is particularly useful for rapid environment setup, allowing users to select a scenario like blog-small or web-medium to deploy optimized server configurations instantly without manual instance-type guessing.

Example Prompts

1. "Recommend an instance configuration for a medium-sized web application and create it in the Guangzhou zone."
2. "List all my currently running Ubuntu instances and show me their latest system uptime."
3. "Restart the instance with ID ins-abc12345 and update its public IP address afterward."

Tips & Limitations

For best results, always verify your TENCENTCLOUD_SECRET_KEY permissions. Ensure that the CVM service has the necessary security group rules to allow your machine access, particularly for the ops scripts. Remember that this tool executes commands on your behalf; always verify the target instance-id before running lifecycle commands like terminate-instance.sh to prevent accidental data loss. While this tool simplifies many tasks, it is a wrapper for the official API, meaning you are still subject to Tencent Cloud's API rate limits and instance quotas.