docker-management

A set of Docker command workflows for managing containers, images, storage volumes, networks, and Compose applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, stop, inspect, and debug containers; build or clean images; run multi-service Compose stacks; manage storage and networks; and review Dockerfiles.
Why use it?
It gathers common operational and debugging tasks in one place, reducing the need to remember Docker commands.

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/chemany/mente/docker-management
Any agent
npx skills add chemany/Mente --skill docker-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chemany/Mente

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,423 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00029 $0.02423
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01211
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00242

Measured 2d ago against content hash b9cffd3f6e84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docker-management 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 2d 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.

- **Port accessible?** → `curl -s http://localhost:PORT` or `docker port NAME`
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to docker-management — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

optional-skills/devops/docker-management/SKILL.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docker Management

Manage Docker containers, images, volumes, networks, and Compose stacks using standard Docker CLI commands. No additional dependencies beyond Docker itself.

When to Use

  • Run, stop, restart, remove, or inspect containers
  • Build, pull, push, tag, or clean up Docker images
  • Work with Docker Compose (multi-service stacks)
  • Manage volumes or networks
  • Debug a crashing container or analyze logs
  • Check Docker disk usage or free up space
  • Review or optimize a Dockerfile

Prerequisites

  • Docker Engine installed and running
  • User added to the docker group (or use sudo)
  • Docker Compose v2 (included with modern Docker installations)

Quick check:

docker --version && docker compose version

Quick Reference

Task Command
Run container (background) docker run -d --name NAME IMAGE
Stop + remove docker stop NAME && docker rm NAME
View logs (follow) docker logs --tail 50 -f NAME
Shell into container docker exec -it NAME /bin/sh
List all containers docker ps -a
Build image docker build -t TAG .
Compose up docker compose up -d
Compose down docker compose down
Disk usage docker system df
Cleanup dangling docker image prune && docker container prune

Procedure

1. Identify the domain

Figure out which area the request falls into:

  • Container lifecycle → run, stop, start, restart, rm, pause/unpause
  • Container interaction → exec, cp, logs, inspect, stats
  • Image management → build, pull, push, tag, rmi, save/load
  • Docker Compose → up, down, ps, logs, exec, build, config
  • Volumes & networks → create, inspect, rm, prune, connect
  • Troubleshooting → log analysis, exit codes, resource issues

2. Container operations

Run a new container:

# Detached service with port mapping
docker run -d --name web -p 8080:80 nginx

# With environment variables
docker run -d -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret -e POSTGRES_DB=mydb --name db postgres:16

# With persistent data (named volume)
docker run -d -v pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data --name db postgres:16

# For development (bind mount source code)
docker run -d -v $(pwd)/src:/app/src -p 3000:3000 --name dev my-app

# Interactive debugging (auto-remove on exit)
docker run -it --rm ubuntu:22.04 /bin/bash

# With resource limits and restart policy
docker run -d --memory=512m --cpus=1.5 --restart=unless-stopped --name app my-app

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 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. 2d ago First seen · 281 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b9cffd3f6e84

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docker-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository chemany/Mente (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,423 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 95% identical to docker-management, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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