deploy-app

A deployment skill for putting a bex application into a Kubernetes cluster, a system that runs and manages containers. It can use a render.yaml or legacy bex.yml file, or deploy the included sample app, then check whether the application becomes ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to preview a generated application configuration, deploy an app to the current Kubernetes cluster, and verify its phase, revision, and URL.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually apply the application configuration and repeatedly inspect the rollout. It also requires the relevant cluster configuration and BEX API credentials to be available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bex-co/bex/deploy-app
Any agent
npx skills add bex-co/bex --skill deploy-app
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bex-co/bex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 566 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.00566
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00057

Measured 3d ago against content hash 76fe692aec21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-app scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Bash(kubectl:*), Bash(bash scripts/app-apply.sh:*), Bash(curl:*), Bash(jq:*)
.claude/skills/deploy-app/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Deploy an App and verify it end-to-end. Use KUBECONFIG=infra/local/bex.kubeconfig if no other cluster is targeted.

Requires BEX_API_URL and BEX_API_TOKEN in the environment (scripts/app-apply.sh reads them and fails with set BEX_API_URL if unset — both are client-supplied, not in .env.example; BEX_API_PUBLIC_URL in .env.example is the unrelated backend DeployHook origin). BEX_API_TOKEN is the Hydra-issued Bearer token (API key minted via /v1/api-keys), not the removed static shared secret. Optional BEX_OWNER_ID, BEX_REPO, BEX_BRANCH narrow the deploy.

  1. If $ARGUMENTS is a path to a render.yaml (or legacy bex.yml alias — canonical is render.yaml, see scripts/app-apply.sh), apply it with DRY_RUN=1 bash scripts/app-apply.sh $ARGUMENTS first and show the generated App CR, then bash scripts/app-apply.sh $ARGUMENTS to deploy. If $ARGUMENTS is a directory, pass the directory — the script discovers render.yaml then bex.yml inside it. Otherwise apply the sample: kubectl apply -f examples/whoami-app.yaml.
  2. Watch until ready: poll kubectl get apps.app.bex.co <name> -o jsonpath='{.status.phase} {.status.revision} {.status.url}' until phase is Ready (timeout ~3 minutes; on timeout, show kubectl describe apps.app.bex.co <name> and the operator logs kubectl -n bex-system logs deploy/bex-controller-manager --tail=50).
  3. If status.url is set and resolvable, curl -fsS it (use --resolve/-k only if the local mock has no real DNS/TLS) and show the response status.
  4. Report: App name, phase, revision, url, and where the pods landed (kubectl get pods -l app.bex.co/app=<name> -o wide).
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. 3d ago First seen · 18 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 76fe692aec21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository bex-co/bex (420 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 566 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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