docker-docs

A reference guide for Docker, a tool that packages applications and their dependencies into isolated containers. It covers Docker Engine, images, Compose, networking, storage, and related features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, build, run, network, secure, deploy, and troubleshoot containers, images, volumes, registries, Compose projects, and Swarm services.
Why use it?
It helps avoid outdated Docker commands, configuration patterns, and Compose guidance. It points to the official documentation for the specific Docker problem.

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/cookiemonsterdev/agents-skills/docker-docs
Any agent
npx skills add cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills --skill docker-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,361 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00095 $0.01361
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00136

Measured 2d ago against content hash dbe36afc9c6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docker-docs 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 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.

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.

docs-skills/docker-docs/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docker questions are easy to answer from stale memory or pre-Compose-v2 patterns. Use this skill to ground answers in the official Docker documentation and return the closest authoritative page instead of generic container advice.

When to Use

Use this skill when the request is about:

  • Docker concepts, architecture, containers, images, and the Docker Engine daemon
  • Installing or configuring Docker Engine, Docker Desktop, or Docker Compose
  • Dockerfile syntax, image builds, multi-stage builds, and Buildx
  • Compose file format, docker compose workflows, profiles, and overrides
  • Container lifecycle: run, exec, logs, inspect, stop, restart, and resource limits
  • Images: pull, push, tag, prune, and registry authentication
  • Networking: bridge, host, overlay, published ports, and DNS
  • Volumes, bind mounts, tmpfs, and storage drivers
  • Docker Engine API, SDKs, and API version negotiation
  • Swarm mode: services, stacks, secrets, configs, and nodes
  • Security: rootless mode, content trust, Scout, and hardened images
  • Troubleshooting daemon, build, networking, or registry errors

Do not use this skill for:

  • Kubernetes cluster operations or kubectl usage. Use kubernetes-docs instead.
  • AWS CLI commands for ECS, ECR, or Fargate. Use aws-cli-docs instead.
  • Third-party orchestrators (Nomad, Podman docs) unless the question is about Docker compatibility or migration covered in Docker docs.
  • Application framework questions unrelated to Docker (NestJS, Express, etc.) unless the user is asking about containerizing that stack per Docker docs.

Workflow

1. Classify the request

Decide which bucket the question belongs to before searching:

  • Getting started and core concepts
  • Installation and platform setup (Engine, Desktop, Compose)
  • Dockerfile and image builds
  • Compose file format and multi-container apps
  • CLI reference (docker, compose, buildx)
  • Networking, storage, and runtime configuration
  • Registries, distribution, and image security
  • Engine API and SDKs
  • Swarm and orchestration
  • Security, rootless, and supply chain
  • Troubleshooting and diagnostics

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A dbe36afc9c6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docker-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills (4 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,361 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 2026-08-31.

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