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title: "Workload Manager Basics - Air Market"
description: "You want to know whether your cloud workloads follow recommended practice, and which ones do not. This helps you look at the rules, run checks against your resources, and read the violations that com…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/workload-manager-basics"
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Skill by [Google](/@google)

# Workload Manager Basics

Check your cloud setup against best practice rules and see what fails

## What this does

You want to know whether your cloud workloads follow recommended practice, and which ones do not. This helps you look at the rules, run checks against your resources, and read the violations that come back - including your own organization's rules. It works through client libraries and the REST API, which matters because there is no dedicated command line tool for it.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Run an evaluation against best practice rules
- See which of my resources are breaking the rules
- Add custom rules for my organization

## Information

**Workload Manager Basics at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Google](/@google) |
| Category | [IT & Ops](/category/ops) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 46 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [google/skills](https://github.com/google/skills/tree/1c3a24610e16b0832be987812de8ac27a5da7b1a/skills/cloud/workload-manager-basics) |
| GitHub stars | 18,649 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 7,939, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Workload Manager Basics and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Workload Manager Basics's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 1c3a24610e16b0832be987812de8ac27a5da7b1a |
| Content hash | 2e01fc94e73ea4e4b5b81c099ed3e329839e639cb685f81e00719fc82886e79b |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/google/skills/blob/1c3a24610e16b0832be987812de8ac27a5da7b1a/skills/cloud/workload-manager-basics/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Workload Manager Basics](/security/workload-manager-basics)

## About Workload Manager Basics

This manages Google Cloud Workload Manager evaluations, rules, scanned resources and validation results, working through the public client libraries and the REST API. That path exists because there is no service-specific public CLI or MCP server for it.

The work it covers: inspecting workload best-practice rules, creating and running evaluations for Google Cloud general best practices, SAP, SQL Server or custom organizational rules, reviewing violations, exporting results to BigQuery, and automating Workload Manager through client libraries.

It stays in its lane. General Compute Engine instance management, VPC configuration and standard IAM auditing are outside it.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/client-library-usage.md - reference
- references/core-concepts.md - reference
- references/general-best-practices.md - reference
- references/iam-security.md - reference
- references/public-cli-status.md - reference
- references/public-mcp-status.md - reference
- references/rest-usage.md - reference
- references/setup-prerequisites.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Workload Manager Basics safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Workload Manager Basics and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 1c3a24610e16, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/workload-manager-basics.

### How do I install Workload Manager Basics?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/workload-manager-basics on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/google/skills/tree/1c3a24610e16b0832be987812de8ac27a5da7b1a/skills/cloud/workload-manager-basics. Install from that link, not the branch.

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