external-dns

external-dns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,761 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using ExternalDNS, a Kubernetes tool that keeps DNS records—names such as app.example.com—matched to exposed services and routes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to synchronize Ingresses, LoadBalancer Services, and Gateway API routes with DNS providers such as Cloudflare, while tracking record ownership with TXT records.
Why use it?
It avoids manually creating, updating, and removing DNS records whenever Kubernetes resources change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to synchronize Ingresses, LoadBalancer Services, and Gateway API routes with DNS providers such as Cloudflare, while tracking record ownership with TXT records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills/external-dns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills --skill external-dns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,761 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.01761
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00881
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00176

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0b65d289ef91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-dns scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/external-dns/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ExternalDNS

Overview

ExternalDNS synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services, Ingresses, and Gateway API routes with DNS providers. It watches resources via the K8s watch API and creates/updates/deletes DNS records to match.

No CRDs. Controlled via CLI flags, sources, and provider-specific config.

Latest: chart 1.21.1, app v0.21.0.

Architecture

K8s Sources (Ingress, HTTPRoute, Service...)
  → ExternalDNS watches for changes
    → Resolves to DNS endpoints
      → Creates/updates/deletes DNS records (Cloudflare, Route53, etc.)
        → Registry (TXT records) tracks ownership

Sources

ExternalDNS queries one or more source types for DNS endpoints:

Source Flag Supported
Ingress --source=ingress
Service (LoadBalancer) --source=service ✅ (no NodePort)
Gateway HTTPRoute --source=gateway-httproute
Gateway GRPCRoute --source=gateway-grpcroute
Gateway TLSRoute --source=gateway-tlsroute ✅ (v1alpha2)
Gateway TCPRoute --source=gateway-tcproute ✅ (experimental)
Gateway UDPRoute --source=gateway-udproute ✅ (experimental)
Istio Gateway --source=istio-gateway
Istio VirtualService --source=istio-virtualservice
CRD --source=crd ✅ (externaldns.k8s.io/v1alpha1)
Node --source=node
Pod --source=pod
OpenShift Route --source=openshift-route
Contour HTTPProxy --source=contour-httpproxy
Traefik Proxy --source=traefik-proxy

Deployed sources: ingress, gateway-httproute.

Providers

ExternalDNS supports 25+ providers. Deployed: Cloudflare.

Cloudflare

Auth via API token (env var CF_API_TOKEN). Example values:

provider:
  name: cloudflare
env:
  - name: CF_API_TOKEN
    valueFrom:
      secretKeyRef:
        name: cloudflare-credentials
        key: api-token
extraArgs:
  - --cloudflare-proxied

Cloudflare-specific flags:

Flag Description
--cloudflare-proxied Enable Cloudflare proxy (orange cloud) — CDN, DDoS protection, SSL
--cloudflare-dns-records-per-page=N Records per page (default 100, max 5000)
--cloudflare-custom-hostnames Enable Cloudflare for SaaS Custom Hostnames
--cloudflare-regional-services Restrict HTTPS decryption to specific regions
--cloudflare-region-key Region key for regional services
--cloudflare-record-comment Add comment to provisioned records (≤100/≤500 chars)

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 186 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 0b65d289ef91

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external-dns is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,761 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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