A routing skill for Talos Linux, an immutable operating system designed to run Kubernetes clusters and managed through an API rather than SSH or a normal shell. It directs requests to the relevant Talos management skill.

Use it to route work involving talosctl, machine configuration YAML, cluster operations, or the Talos Terraform provider.

It helps choose the right procedure for cluster commands, machine configuration, or Terraform-based infrastructure management. This avoids treating Talos like a conventional Linux server.

talos — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Aidas-dev

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills --skill talos

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 692 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00692
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00346
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00138
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00069

Measured 8d ago against content hash 46637daf3167, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talos 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/talos/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Talos — Skill Router

Latest: v1.13.x (Linux 6.18, etcd 3.6.9, K8s 1.36)
API version: v1alpha1 (multi-document config format)

Overview

Talos is an immutable Kubernetes OS — no SSH, no shell, API-driven. All management via talosctl, machine config YAML, or the Terraform provider.

Which Sub-Skill?

Match the user's request against the trigger keywords below, then call skill(name="<matched-skill>") to load the sub-skill's full content.

Routing Table

Trigger keywords	User wants to...	Skill to load
talosctl, upgrade, upgrade-k8s, bootstrap, kubeconfig, reboot, reset, rollback, etcd, service, logs, dmesg, dashboard, health, diagnostics, troubleshoot, CLI	Run talosctl commands against a cluster	`talosctl`
machine config, config, gen config, apply-config, patch, patching, secrets.yaml, network config, install disk, multi-document, v1alpha1, YAML config, LUKS, KubeSpan, disk encryption	Write or modify machine config YAML	`talosconfig`
terraform, provider, siderolabs/talos, talos_machine, machine_secrets, machine_configuration, cluster, IaC, infra as code, plan, apply	Manage Talos as infrastructure code	`talos-terraform`
tuppr, TalosUpgrade, KubernetesUpgrade, automated upgrade, orchestrated upgrade, GitOps upgrade, upgrade controller, maintenance window	Automate Talos/K8s upgrades via Kubernetes controller	`tuppr`

Decision Tree

If routing is ambiguous:

User is running commands (upgrade, bootstrap, diagnostics) → talosctl
User is writing YAML (config documents, patches) → talosconfig
User is writing Terraform (.tf files, talos_* resources) → talos-terraform
User wants automated/GitOps upgrades (CRs, controller, TalosUpgrade/KubernetesUpgrade) → tuppr
Combination? → Load the one matching the primary action; config often flows into CLI usage, so talosconfig → talosctl is a common pair

When NOT to load this router

User question is about a specific OS-level concern (kernel, hardware, GPU) → check if a hardware/GPU skill applies first
User needs cluster provisioning on a specific cloud (Hetzner, Proxmox, AWS) → that's the cloud provider's concern; the talos-terraform skill covers the Talos-side resources
User is working on Tailscale on Talos nodes → load tailscale-talos instead
User just needs a quick version/overview → the Overview above is sufficient

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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.

8d ago First seen · 44 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 46637daf3167

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talos is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aidas-dev/k8s-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 692 tokens. 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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