generate-k8s-manifests

generate-k8s-manifests is a skill for Claude Code from Azure/containerization-assist. It costs 100 tokens per session (4,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A generator for Kubernetes configuration files, which describe how a containerized application runs in a Kubernetes cluster. It creates resources such as deployments, services, configuration, secrets, and optionally automatic scaling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a Dockerfile has been checked to create deployment files for one application, including its namespace, image, replicas, health checks, resources, and optional scaling.
Why use it?
It turns an analyzed application module and container image into the files needed to run that application in Kubernetes, with settings adjusted for development or production.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after a Dockerfile has been checked to create deployment files for one application, including its namespace, image, replicas, health checks, resources, and optional scaling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/azure/containerization-assist/generate-k8s-manifests
About the project

Containerization Assist is an MCP server that helps create, inspect, and deploy Docker containers and Kubernetes applications. Developers use it for Dockerfile generation, image scanning, Kubernetes manifest creation, security checks, policy-based configuration, and deployment workflows.

Azure/containerization-assist · 41 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Azure/containerization-assist --skill generate-k8s-manifests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/containerization-assist

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,296 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 8 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 376
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 395
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 407
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 423
    Code deploys a privileged Kubernetes workload (privileged container, hostPath mount, or host namespaces). This grants root on the node and is a node/cluster takeover vector.
    Fix: Remove privileged, hostPath, and host-namespace settings from workloads. Use a least-privilege securityContext, drop capabilities, and avoid mounting the host filesystem.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 423
    Code deploys a privileged Kubernetes workload (privileged container, hostPath mount, or host namespaces). This grants root on the node and is a node/cluster takeover vector.
    Fix: Remove privileged, hostPath, and host-namespace settings from workloads. Use a least-privilege securityContext, drop capabilities, and avoid mounting the host filesystem.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 423
    Code deploys a privileged Kubernetes workload (privileged container, hostPath mount, or host namespaces). This grants root on the node and is a node/cluster takeover vector.
    Fix: Remove privileged, hostPath, and host-namespace settings from workloads. Use a least-privilege securityContext, drop capabilities, and avoid mounting the host filesystem.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 423
    Code deploys a privileged Kubernetes workload (privileged container, hostPath mount, or host namespaces). This grants root on the node and is a node/cluster takeover vector.
    Fix: Remove privileged, hostPath, and host-namespace settings from workloads. Use a least-privilege securityContext, drop capabilities, and avoid mounting the host filesystem.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 380
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00100 $0.04296
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.02148
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00859
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00430

Measured 11d ago against content hash 813b72a82281, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-k8s-manifests 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 11d 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/generate-k8s-manifests/SKILL.md · 440 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 440 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Kubernetes Manifests

Produce a complete, production-ready set of Kubernetes manifests for one application in one module and write them to disk. Deterministic — every choice below comes from a fixed rule or table, not the model's judgment. The artifacts are the YAML files on disk, not chat output.

Inputs

Field Required Description
modulePath yes Absolute path of the module to deploy (a module from analyze-repo).
appName optional Kubernetes resource name. Defaults to the directory basename of modulePath. Must be a valid DNS-1123 label (lowercase, digits, -, ≤ 63 chars). If the resolved value is invalid, normalize it (lowercase, replace invalid chars with -) and tell the user.
image optional Container image reference (registry/repo:tag). Defaults to <appName>:dev (caller must replace it before deploy). Used for Deployment.spec.template.spec.containers[].image.
namespace optional Defaults to default.
environment optional production (default) or development. Affects replicas, probes, resource defaults.
language optional From analyze-repo. Used to pick default container port if ports empty.
framework optional From analyze-repo. Same.
ports optional From analyze-repo. First port becomes containerPort + Service.targetPort.
detectedEnvVars optional From analyze-repo. Used to build ConfigMap (config/database types) and Secret (secret type).
detectedDatabases optional From analyze-repo. If any database is in the managed set (see below), emit a ServiceAccount with workload-identity annotations + reference it from the Deployment.
trafficLevel optional high | medium | low. Affects replica count + HPA.
criticalityTier optional tier-1 (mission-critical) | tier-2 | tier-3. Same.
manifestType optional kubernetes (default), helm, kustomize, aca. This skill only handles kubernetes. For helm / kustomize / aca, tell the user it's out of scope and STOP.
outputDir optional Where to write the YAML files. Default: <modulePath>/k8s/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 440 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 440 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 813b72a82281

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generate-k8s-manifests is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/containerization-assist (41 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 4,296 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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