argo-cd

argo-cd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (606 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide and setup reference for Argo CD, a tool that continuously deploys applications to Kubernetes from configuration stored in Git. Kubernetes runs and manages container-based applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn Argo CD basics, GitOps deployment, the App of Apps pattern, self-healing, scaling, and error recovery.
Why use it?
It helps keep the running Kubernetes setup aligned with the desired configuration in Git and detect manual changes or deployment problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to learn Argo CD basics, GitOps deployment, the App of Apps pattern, self-healing, scaling, and error recovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/argo-cd
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 ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill argo-cd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 606 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.00606
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 56728bd51ed1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argo-cd 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 9d 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/argo-cd/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Argo CD Skill

Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.

Ecosystem Graph

graph LR
  argo-cd["Argo CD"]
  argo-cd -- "depends on" --> kubernetes
  argo-cd -- "works well with" --> helm
  argo-cd -- "alternative to" --> github-actions

Quick Start

Argo CD implements GitOps. Instead of your CI pipeline pushing deployments to Kubernetes, Argo CD runs inside Kubernetes and continually pulls the latest desired state from your Git repository.

kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml

Production Patterns

The App of Apps Pattern

Define a root Argo CD Application custom resource that points to a Git directory containing other Application resources. This allows Argo CD to bootstrap and manage an entire cluster's configuration recursively.

Architecture & Scaling

Self-Healing

Enable Auto-Sync and Self-Healing. If a developer manually runs kubectl edit in production to change a replica count, Argo CD will detect the configuration drift and immediately overwrite it, forcing Git to remain the single source of truth.

Error Recovery

If an automated sync breaks the cluster, simply git revert the bad commit in your repository. Argo CD will instantly detect the rollback in Git and sync the cluster back to the healthy state.

Security Notes

Argo CD requires extremely high privileges in the cluster. Ensure its UI/API is strictly protected via SSO (OIDC/SAML). Limit access using Argo CD's native RBAC to ensure developers can only sync applications in their specific namespaces.

Relationships

Prerequisites: kubernetes

Alternatives: github-actions

Works Well With: helm

References

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with argo-cd — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 9d ago First seen · 66 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 56728bd51ed1

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argo-cd is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 606 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 2026-08-30.