aks-cluster-setup

aks-cluster-setup is a skill for Claude Code from Azure/AKS-Skills. It costs 176 tokens per session (2,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for creating a production Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, which runs containerized applications. It makes AKS-specific choices and hands provisioning to Azure deployment tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing a new AKS cluster, including its pricing model, pod networking, API-server access, outbound traffic, node pools, update strategy, and availability zones.
Why use it?
It helps settle networking, access, identity, upgrades, and reliability decisions that can be difficult to change after the cluster is created.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the aks plugin — 8 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing a new AKS cluster, including its pricing model, pod networking, API-server access, outbound traffic, node pools, update strategy, and availability zones.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/azure/aks-skills/aks-cluster-setup
About the project

Azure/AKS-Skills is a collection of agent skills for operating Azure Kubernetes Service clusters after they are provisioned. It helps compatible coding agents investigate incidents, control costs, assess AKS Automatic readiness, run GPU and inference workloads, capture packet-level evidence, and design clusters. The catalogue entries provide the skills, MCP integration, and plugin configuration for these AKS operations.

Azure/AKS-Skills · 4 stars · on GitHub

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 Azure/AKS-Skills --skill aks-cluster-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/AKS-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,161 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 $0.00176 $0.02161
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00216

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2542e789c78c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aks-cluster-setup 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/aks-cluster-setup/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AKS Cluster Setup

This skill owns the AKS-specific design decisions for standing up a production cluster and then hands the provisioning execution to the Azure Skills deployment engine. It distinguishes Day-0 decisions (networking, API-server access — hard to change later) from Day-1 features (can be enabled post-creation). See references/cli-reference.md for the commands.

How this works with Azure Skills

This is a thin facade over provisioning — it owns the AKS design and delegates the generic provisioning execution to Azure Skills; it does not run azd or az deployment itself. It enriches the request with AKS-specific design decisions, then delegates the generic provisioning workflow to Azure Skills.

User: "Create a production AKS cluster"
  │
  ▼
aks-cluster-setup (this skill)
  │  Decides the AKS-specific design:
  │   - AKS Automatic vs Standard
  │   - Pod IP model (Azure CNI Overlay vs VNet-routable vs kubenet)
  │   - API-server access (public / private / authorized ranges)
  │   - Egress model, identity, node pools, upgrade strategy, zones
  │
  ▼
Hands off to Azure Skills (install alongside):
  ├─ azure-prepare   → analyzes requirements, generates the infra plan
  ├─ azure-validate  → validates the plan, provisions a preview
  └─ azure-deploy    → runs azd up / az deployment to create the cluster

Install both: aks-cluster-setup for the AKS design brain, Azure Skills as the deployment engine underneath. If Azure Skills is not present, this skill still produces the full design and the exact az aks create command in references/cli-reference.md so the user can provision manually. This skill never provisions non-AKS resources — for those, use Azure Skills directly.

Rules

  1. Start from the user's requirements for compute, networking, security, and scale.
  2. Inspect the host's available tools for an Azure MCP capability that advertises AKS operations. Use the matching capability under whatever name the host assigned, inspect its advertised schema or discovery surface, and choose the smallest operation that fits. Do not gate on or construct a mapping for a literal tool name. Fall back to az aks only when the host exposes no matching capability or its AKS surface lacks the needed operation.
  3. Default to AKS Automatic unless the user needs control not supported by Node Auto Provisioning. Standard is for full configurability at higher operational overhead.
  4. Record the rationale for every Day-0 decision (networking, API-server access) — these are expensive or impossible to change after creation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 9d ago First seen · 155 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A 2542e789c78c

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aks-cluster-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/AKS-Skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 2,161 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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