atmos-kubernetes

atmos-kubernetes is a skill for Claude Code from cloudposse/atmos. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Kubernetes deployment component for managing YAML, JSON, and Kustomize configuration against a cluster or a GitOps repository. Kubernetes is a system for running and managing containers across machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to render, compare, validate, apply, deploy, or delete Kubernetes resources, including checking configuration before it reaches a cluster.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually prepare manifest files and coordinate cluster changes with separate commands. It is marked experimental, so its behaviour may change.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the atmos plugin — 51 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to render, compare, validate, apply, deploy, or delete Kubernetes resources, including checking configuration before it reaches a cluster.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudposse/atmos/atmos-kubernetes
About the project

Atmos is an infrastructure runtime that coordinates tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Helm, Packer, Ansible, and containers through consistent commands and configuration. It is for teams running cloud infrastructure on laptops, in CI, or through AI agents across environments and regions. Its catalogue entries provide skills, agents, commands, and other add-ons for Atmos workflows.

cloudposse/atmos · 1,372 stars · on GitHub · atmos.tools

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 cloudposse/atmos --skill atmos-kubernetes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudposse/atmos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atmos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,733 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: 10 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 29
    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 49
    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 115
    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 165
    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 180
    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 184
    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 200
    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 201
    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 49
    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 180
    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.
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 $0.00059 $0.02733
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01367
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00273

Measured 4d ago against content hash a3514ffca73f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atmos-kubernetes 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 4d 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.

agent-skills/skills/atmos-kubernetes/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Atmos Native Kubernetes Components

Use this skill for the native Kubernetes component type (components.kubernetes). It manages plain YAML/JSON manifests and Kustomize overlays through the Kubernetes Go SDK with server-side apply. No kubectl or kustomize binary is required. This is distinct from Helm chart deployment — see atmos-helm for charts, or atmos-helmfile for Helmfile-based releases.

This feature is experimental (IsExperimental() == true in cmd/kubernetes/kubernetes.go). kubectl/kustomize names describe manifest-processing behavior, not the CLI binaries.

Need Load
Helm charts (native, Helm Go SDK) atmos-helm
Helmfile-based Kubernetes deployments atmos-helmfile
Component dependency ordering for --all/--affected atmos-components
GitOps delivery targets (provision.targets, kind: git) atmos-git
EKS kubeconfig / cluster authentication atmos-aws-eks, atmos-auth
Lifecycle hooks around component operations atmos-hooks
Native CI job summaries atmos-ci
Local Kubernetes emulator (k3s) atmos-emulator

Component Shape

Define Kubernetes objects under components.kubernetes in stack manifests:

components:
  kubernetes:
    argocd:
      provider: kustomize
      paths:
        - overlays/{{ .vars.cluster }}
      vars:
        namespace: argocd
        cluster: dev
      env:
        KUBECONFIG: /tmp/kubeconfig
      manifests:
        - apiVersion: v1
          kind: Namespace
          metadata:
            name: "{{ .vars.namespace }}"
      provision:
        default: cluster
        targets:
          cluster:
            kind: kubernetes
          deployment-repo:
            kind: git
            repository: deployments
            path: "clusters/{{ .vars.cluster }}/argocd"

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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. 4d ago First seen · 260 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A a3514ffca73f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

atmos-kubernetes is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudposse/atmos (1,372 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,733 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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