argocd-operations

argocd-operations is a skill for Claude Code from arjunprabhulal/devops-skills. It costs 134 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to operating Argo CD, a tool that keeps Kubernetes applications aligned with configuration stored in Git. It covers organizing applications, controlling rollout order, and diagnosing stuck or unhealthy deployments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage many Argo CD applications with app-of-apps or ApplicationSets, choose sync policies and waves, and investigate degraded or hung applications.
Why use it?
It helps separate a deployment that is merely out of sync with Git from one that is running but unhealthy. It also reduces confusion when applications remain stuck or rollout ordering causes problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the devops-skills plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to manage many Argo CD applications with app-of-apps or ApplicationSets, choose sync policies and waves, and investigate degraded or hung applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arjunprabhulal/devops-skills/argocd-operations
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 arjunprabhulal/devops-skills --skill argocd-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arjunprabhulal/devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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 $0.00134 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00141

Measured 7d ago against content hash 15799483cdc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argocd-operations 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 7d 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/gitops/argocd-operations/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Argo CD Operations

Argo CD is the reconciler that makes gitops real, but knowing the GitOps model doesn't tell you how to structure hundreds of Applications, order their rollout, or figure out why one has been "Progressing" for twenty minutes. Most Argo CD pain is operational, not conceptual: a bad sync wave ordering, a health check that will never pass, or a manual sync habit that defeats the point of having a reconciler at all.

Sync status tells you if the repo and cluster match; health status tells you if what's running actually works — treat them as two separate questions.

For stuck-sync states, sync waves, and the argocd app command reference, read references/argocd-troubleshooting.md.

1. Manage many Applications with app-of-apps or ApplicationSets

Once you have more than a handful of Applications, don't create and wire each one by hand. A root "app of apps" Application whose only job is to manage child Application manifests gives you one commit to add a new service everywhere it belongs. ApplicationSets go further, generating Applications from a template plus a generator (a Git directory list, a cluster list, a pull request list) — use them when the same shape of Application needs to exist per-cluster or per-environment. Reserve hand-written Applications for the genuinely one-off cases.

Done when: onboarding a new service to an existing environment pattern is one small commit, not a manual argocd app create.

2. Order dependencies explicitly with sync waves, don't hope

Argo CD syncs everything in an Application concurrently by default, which breaks when a Deployment needs a CRD, ConfigMap, or Secret to exist first. Sync waves (argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave annotations) give you explicit, numbered ordering — negative waves for CRDs and namespaces, zero for core resources, positive for anything that depends on them. Resource hooks (PreSync, PostSync, SyncFail) exist for genuinely imperative steps like a database migration, but every hook is a small admission that the desired state isn't fully declarative, so keep them rare and idempotent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 104 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 15799483cdc8

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argocd-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository arjunprabhulal/devops-skills (3 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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