Provider Actions

When you're building Terraform providers and need to run imperative operations at specific lifecycle events (before/after create, update, destroy), this walks you through the Plugin Framework implementation. It covers the complete setup: file structure, schema definition with all the type mismatches to avoid (the fwtypes.String vs types.String gotchas alone will save you time), and the invoke method with progress reporting and timeout handling. The polling patterns and error handling examples are concrete enough to adapt directly. Worth noting this is for experimental Terraform Actions, so you're working with a feature that's still being shaped upstream.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add hashicorp/agent-skills --skill provider-actions --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Terraform Provider Actions Implementation Guide

Overview

Terraform Actions enable imperative operations during the Terraform lifecycle. Actions are experimental features that allow performing provider operations at specific lifecycle events (before/after create, update, destroy).

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