Cloudflare R2 Bucket Management & Access Skill

Purpose

You are the assistant responsible for managing R2 storage in production including:

• Bucket provisioning & environment separation
• Public/private access strategy
• Upload/download/stream patterns
• Lifecycle rules & retention policies
• Signed URL access patterns
• Asset optimization + access performance

Use this skill when handling Cloudflare R2 + Hono Worker integration beyond basic uploads.

Do not use this skill for:

• D1 schema or migrations → cloudflare-d1-migrations-and-production-seeding
• Core Hono routing → hono-app-scaffold
• Auth logic → hono-authentication

Environment-Aware Bucket Setup

This skill knows how to structure R2 per environment:

[[r2_buckets]]
binding = "BUCKET"
bucket_name = "my-bucket-dev"
preview_bucket_name = "my-bucket-dev"

[env.staging]
[[env.staging.r2_buckets]]
binding = "BUCKET"
bucket_name = "my-bucket-staging"

[env.production]
[[env.production.r2_buckets]]
binding = "BUCKET"
bucket_name = "my-bucket-prod"

Claude should:

• Default to separate buckets per environment
• Suggest mirroring structure between staging & prod
• Prevent mixing prod bucket during dev

R2 Access Permission Strategy

R2 can be accessed in multiple ways — this skill helps choose between:

This skill selects approach based on context.

Best practice: Keep buckets private, expose objects through Worker/Routes or signed URLs.

Private Access (Recommended Default)

Use Cloudflare Worker as controlled access:

app.get("/file/:key", async (c) => {
  const key = decodeURIComponent(c.req.param("key"));

  const obj = await c.env.BUCKET.get(key);
  if (!obj) return c.notFound();

  return new Response(obj.body, {
    headers: { "Content-Type": obj.httpMetadata?.contentType ?? "application/octet-stream" }
  });
});

This enables auth-check:

if (!c.get("user")) return c.json({ auth: false }, 401);

Public Access Mode

Enable public read with bucket policy:

wrangler r2 bucket policy put BUCKET << 'EOF'
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": "*",
      "Action": "r2:GetObject",
      "Resource": "BUCKET/*"
    }
  ]
}
EOF

Use only for assets intended to be publicly hosted (CDN optimized).

Upload Handling (secure)

const file = await c.req.formData().then(f => f.get("file") as File);
const key = `users/${c.get("user")?.id}/${Date.now()}-${file.name}`;

await c.env.BUCKET.put(key, await file.arrayBuffer(), {
  httpMetadata: { contentType: file.type }
});

return c.json({ key, url: `/file/${encodeURIComponent(key)}` });

The skill ensures safe naming conventions:

• No raw user-supplied keys
• Timestamp or UUID prefix
• Supports multi-tenant structures

R2 Lifecycle Policies

Claude may apply retention or expiration policy suggestions:

Example JSON policy reference:

{
  "Rules": [
    {
      "ID": "auto-expire-temp",
      "Filter": { "Prefix": "temp/" },
      "Expiration": { "Days": 30 }
    }
  ]
}

Signed URL Access (download/share)

Cloudflare does not sign natively — we generate JWT-contained key + expiry:

import { SignJWT, jwtVerify } from "jose";

export async function createSignedURL(key: string, expSec: number, secret: string) {
  const token = await new SignJWT({ key })
    .setProtectedHeader({ alg: "HS256" })
    .setExpirationTime(Math.floor(Date.now()/1000) + expSec)
    .sign(new TextEncoder().encode(secret));

  return `/download/${token}`;
}

app.get("/download/:token", async (c) => {
  const secret = c.env.JWT_SECRET;
  const { payload } = await jwtVerify(c.req.param("token"), new TextEncoder().encode(secret));
  const obj = await c.env.BUCKET.get(payload.key);
  if(!obj) return c.notFound();
  return new Response(obj.body);
});

This simulates presigned URLs safely.

Directory-like Prefixing

Claude may suggest folder-style structure for organization:

/public/assets/*
/users/[id]/uploads/*
/tenants/[id]/invoices/*
/tmp/uploads/*

Naming rules enforced by this skill:

• Avoid exposing tenant IDs publicly unless hashed
• PascalCase or kebab-case predictable
• Versionable storage layout (v1/avatars) for migrations

Listing + Search

const result = await c.env.BUCKET.list({ prefix: `users/${id}/` });
return c.json(result.objects.map(o => ({ key: o.key, size: o.size, date: o.uploaded })));

Skill advises pagination if results exceed limits.

CI/CD Hooks For R2 Deployments

This skill suggests combining with future CI/CD workflow:

wrangler deploy --env production

Then apply bucket policy or migration tasks post-deploy.

For automation:

• cache invalidation
• namespace provisioning
• retention checks

Example Prompts That Activate This Skill

• “Store files in R2 with security rules.”
• “Make public CDN bucket for static assets.”
• “Generate signed URLs for temporary downloads.”
• “Organize tenant bucket structure cleanly.”
• “Set expiration policy for old file uploads.”

Interactions With Other Skills