insideout

Agentic cloud infrastructure builder & manager -- describe your goal, discuss requirements, estimate cost, generate Terraform, deploy, operate and manage in production

InsideOut • Luther Systems •

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What is InsideOut?

InsideOut is a Claude Code plugin that brings agentic cloud infrastructure management directly into your terminal. Describe your goal in plain language, and Riley -- your AI infrastructure advisor -- guides you through requirements, service selection, cost estimation, Terraform generation, deployment, and ongoing production management on AWS or GCP.

No authentication or API keys required. Install the plugin and start building.

What You Can Do

• Describe your goal -- tell Riley what you're building, get expert infrastructure recommendations
• Discuss requirements -- refine architecture, regions, compliance, scaling needs interactively
• Estimate cost -- see real-time monthly cost estimates as components are added
• Generate Terraform -- production-ready, modular code with security best practices
• Deploy -- deploy directly to AWS or GCP from the conversation
• Operate and manage -- inspect deployments, detect drift, monitor logs, roll back changes

Supported Services (50+)

Category	AWS	GCP
Compute	EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda	Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions
Database	RDS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, OpenSearch	Cloud SQL, Firestore, Memorystore
Networking	VPC, ALB, CloudFront, API Gateway	VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, API Gateway
Storage	S3	Cloud Storage
Security	WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager, Cognito	Cloud Armor, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Identity Platform
Messaging	SQS, MSK (Kafka)	Pub/Sub
Observability	CloudWatch, Managed Grafana	Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring
AI/ML	Bedrock	Vertex AI
CI/CD	CodePipeline, GitHub Actions	Cloud Build
Backup	AWS Backup	GCP Backups

Installation

From GitHub (in Claude Code)

1. Add the marketplace:

   /plugin marketplace add luthersystems/insideout-claude-code
   

2. Install the plugin:

   /plugin install insideout
   

For Development

git clone https://github.com/luthersystems/insideout-claude-code.git
claude --plugin-dir ./insideout-claude-code

Quick Start

On first use, Claude Code will ask to approve the InsideOut MCP tools -- select "Yes, and don't ask again". This is a one-time prompt.

Use the /insideout:start command or just mention infrastructure in your conversation:

You: /insideout:start I need cloud infrastructure for a web app

Riley: "Hi! I'm Riley, your infrastructure advisor. Tell me about the app
        you're building -- what does it do, who uses it, and what scale
        are you planning for?"

You: "It's an e-commerce platform expecting 50k monthly users on AWS"

Riley: "Great! I'd recommend ECS for your containers, RDS PostgreSQL
        for your database, ElastiCache Redis for sessions, and an ALB.
        Estimated cost: ~$350/month. Want me to adjust anything?"

You: "Looks good, generate the Terraform"

[Generates production-ready Terraform files]

You: "Deploy it"

[Deploys to AWS, streams logs in real-time]

Workspace-Aware

InsideOut automatically scans your workspace to detect your tech stack, framework, existing infrastructure, and target cloud provider. This gives Riley immediate context about your project so she can tailor recommendations from the start.

New to InsideOut? See the Getting Started Guide for a detailed step-by-step walkthrough.

Available Tools