Docker-hardened

Docker-hardened is a skill for Claude Code from faberlens/hardened-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for building, running, debugging, and securing Docker containers, images, and Compose applications. Docker packages software with its dependencies so it runs consistently across computers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working with Dockerfiles, image versions, Compose services, networks, volumes, logs, ports, or production container settings.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unstable builds, unclear runtime failures, uncontrolled resource use, and common container security problems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the devops-hardened-skills plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when working with Dockerfiles, image versions, Compose services, networks, volumes, logs, ports, or production container settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/docker-hardened
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 faberlens/hardened-skills --skill docker-hardened
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/faberlens/hardened-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-hardened-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 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.
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 $0.00086 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00134

Measured 11d ago against content hash 27324e08ac53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Docker-hardened 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 11d 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.

skills/docker-hardened/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

Use when the task involves Docker, Dockerfiles, container builds, Compose, image publishing, networking, volumes, logs, debugging, or production container operations. This skill is stateless and should be applied directly whenever Docker work appears.

Quick Reference

Topic File
Essential commands commands.md
Dockerfile patterns images.md
Compose orchestration compose.md
Networking & volumes infrastructure.md
Security hardening security.md

Core Rules

1. Pin Image Versions

  • python:3.11.5-slim not python:latest
  • Today's latest differs from tomorrow's — breaks immutable builds

2. Combine RUN Commands

  • apt-get update && apt-get install -y pkg in ONE layer
  • Separate layers = stale package cache weeks later

3. Non-Root by Default

  • Add USER nonroot in Dockerfile
  • Running as root fails security scans and platform policies

4. Set Resource Limits

  • -m 512m on every container
  • OOM killer strikes without warning otherwise

5. Configure Log Rotation

  • Default json-file driver has no size limit
  • One chatty container fills disk and crashes host

Image Traps

  • Multi-stage builds: forgotten --from=builder copies from wrong stage silently
  • COPY before RUN invalidates cache on every file change — copy requirements first, install, then copy code
  • ADD extracts archives automatically — use COPY unless you need extraction
  • Build args visible in image history — never use for secrets

Runtime Traps

  • localhost inside container is container's localhost — bind to 0.0.0.0
  • Port already in use: previous container still stopping — wait or force remove
  • Exit code 137 = OOM killed, 139 = segfault — check with docker inspect --format='{{.State.ExitCode}}'
  • No shell in distroless images — docker cp files out or use debug sidecar

Networking Traps

  • Container DNS only works on custom networks — default bridge can't resolve names
  • Published ports bind to 0.0.0.0 — use 127.0.0.1:5432:5432 for local-only
  • Zombie connections from killed containers — set health checks and restart policies

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 125 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 27324e08ac53

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Docker-hardened is a skill published in the GitHub repository faberlens/hardened-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,341 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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