# Pulumi Best Practices

> Load when the user is writing, reviewing, or debugging Pulumi TypeScript/Python programs; asks about Output<T or apply() usage; wants to create ComponentResource classes; needs to refactor resources without destroying them (aliases); is setting up secrets or config; or is configuring a pulumi preview/up CI workflow. Also load for questions about resource dependency order, parent/child resource relationships, or pulumi.interpolate.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-pulumi-pulumi-best-practices
- tashan id: skill:pulumi/pulumi-best-practices
- Source: https://github.com/pulumi/agent-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: cloud
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: Apache-2.0
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r pulumi-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.