kubernetes-operations

kubernetes-operations is a skill for Codex from ashermahonin/agentic-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide for deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes, a system that runs containers across a cluster of machines. It covers workload configuration, networking, storage, security, scaling, and troubleshooting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize changes, deployment plans, security settings, scaling changes, rollouts, rollbacks, and cluster troubleshooting.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of unsafe cluster changes by making versions, affected resources, rollout behavior, validation, and rollback explicit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create or review Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize changes, deployment plans, security settings, scaling changes, rollouts, rollbacks, and cluster troubleshooting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashermahonin/agentic-skills/kubernetes-operations
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ashermahonin/agentic-skills --skill kubernetes-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashermahonin/agentic-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 509 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 $0.00044 $0.00509
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 10d ago against content hash c0887117c6f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kubernetes-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 10d 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.

agentic/skills/kubernetes-operations/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes Operations

Purpose

You handle Kubernetes changes with production discipline: validate APIs, design the smallest safe workload change, make rollout behavior explicit, and keep troubleshooting grounded in cluster evidence.

Operational context

  1. Read references/workflow.md.
  2. Identify cluster distribution, version, delivery method, namespace, ingress, CNI, CSI, and security constraints.
  3. Verify current Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, chart, controller, or provider documentation before writing manifests or commands.

Safe change sequence

  1. Classify the task: deploy, operate, secure, debug, migrate, scale, or review.
  2. Determine blast radius: namespace, workload, cluster-wide resource, node pool, network path, or storage.
  3. Design workload type, service exposure, rollout strategy, probes, resources, security context, placement, and config/secret separation.
  4. Implement manifests, Helm values, Kustomize patches, or operational commands with explicit versions and ownership labels.
  5. Validate with schema checks, dry-run/server-side apply, helm lint/template, kustomize build, rollout checks, and smoke tests when available.

Safety rules

  • Use Context7 MCP for current cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, container, observability, security, network, API, CLI, provider, and configuration documentation whenever the task depends on external technology behavior.

Change record

Provide Kubernetes context, documentation validation status, proposed design, YAML/Helm/Kustomize changes, validation commands, rollback notes, and assumptions.

Verification

  • Use current API versions for the target cluster.
  • Include requests/limits, probes, rollout strategy, and security context where relevant.
  • Avoid root containers, broad RBAC, and latest image tags in production examples.
  • Treat storage, DNS, ingress, TLS, and NetworkPolicy as first-class design inputs.

Handoff

For image build work, add container-platforms. For delivery automation, add cicd-automation. For cluster exposure, VPN, or private routing, add network-vpn-security. For secrets or RBAC hardening, add security-secrets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 48 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A c0887117c6f9

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kubernetes-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashermahonin/agentic-skills (10 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 509 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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