kubernetes-deployment

kubernetes-deployment is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from evolplus/talos. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,096 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A deployment guide for putting services on Kubernetes, a system that runs and manages applications across a cluster of machines. It covers Kubernetes configuration files, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, namespaces, and rollout checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare, apply, and verify Kubernetes deployments. It produces deployment evidence, service health checks, rollout status, rollback instructions, and a redacted deployment report.
Why use it?
It helps deploy the intended service to the intended cluster and namespace while keeping passwords, keys, and other cluster credentials out of the assistant's context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the talos plugin — 55 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

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/evolplus/talos/kubernetes-deployment
Any agent
npx skills add evolplus/talos --skill kubernetes-deployment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/evolplus/talos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install talos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 2 commands, 4 hooks.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00071 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7121bdf60152, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

kubernetes-deployment scanned grade C 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 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- Never read or print kubeconfig files, `.k8s/*config*`, `.kube/config`, service-account tokens, client key data, or Kubernetes Secret manifests.
skills/kubernetes-deployment/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes Deployment

When to use

Use this skill when a DevOps task deploys or verifies services on a Kubernetes cluster. Project-root .k8s/ may contain manifests, overlays, or kubeconfig files. Kubeconfig and Secret material are operator-owned credentials: DevOps may reference them in kubectl or helm commands, but must not read, summarize, copy, or print their contents.

Inputs and outputs

  • Inputs: task ID, target environment, cluster/context/namespace, approved kubeconfig path or context, manifest/Kustomize/Helm path, image tag, environment contract, rollout and rollback expectations.
  • Outputs: dry-run/diff evidence, applied resource summary, rollout status, service endpoint/health evidence, rollback command, and docs/deploy-reports/<task-id>.md with credential material redacted.

Procedure

  1. Resolve cluster, namespace, and kubeconfig by reference. Use explicit --kubeconfig <path> and --namespace <name> or an approved context from the task. Do not rely on an implicit current context. Do not run kubectl config view, especially with --raw.

  2. Separate manifests from secrets. It is safe to read ordinary Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, HPA, and Kustomize/Helm metadata. Do not read kubeconfig files, Kubernetes Secret manifests, sealed-secret private keys, service-account tokens, or files whose path implies secret material.

  3. Validate before mutation. Run schema or server dry-run validation first:

    kubectl --kubeconfig .k8s/<config> --namespace <ns> apply --dry-run=server -f <manifest-or-overlay>
    kubectl --kubeconfig .k8s/<config> --namespace <ns> diff -f <manifest-or-overlay>
    

    If diff output contains secret values, stop and rerun with safer tooling or ask the operator for a redacted plan.

  4. Use explicit image and config inputs. Apply manifests or Helm values that reference immutable image tags/digests. Non-secret ConfigMaps may be reviewed. Secrets must come from the cluster's approved secret manager, ExternalSecret, sealed-secret public workflow, or operator-managed injection path.

  5. Deploy with bounded blast radius. Apply only the task-scoped namespace/resources. Avoid cluster-wide operations unless the task is explicitly a platform task with approval. Never run kubectl delete against broad selectors without a reviewed manifest list.

  6. Watch rollouts. Use kubectl rollout status deployment/<name> --timeout=<n>s, pod readiness, service endpoints, and application health checks. Capture only resource names, statuses, events, and sanitized logs.

  7. Prepare rollback. Record kubectl rollout undo, Helm rollback revision, or re-apply previous manifest/tag. For database migrations or irreversible changes, route back to SA/TL before production deployment.

  8. Write the deploy report. Include cluster alias/context name, namespace, manifest path, image tag/digest, validation/diff result, rollout status, health evidence, and rollback command. Never include kubeconfig contents, tokens, cert data, or Secret values.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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 · 58 lines · 71 tokens per session scan C 7121bdf60152

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kubernetes-deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository evolplus/talos (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,096 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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