What is gitops-knowledge?

Reference guidance for Flux CD, a tool that keeps Kubernetes applications matched to configuration stored in Git or another source.

Answering questions and creating YAML files for Flux resources such as Helm releases, repositories, and deployment configurations.

It helps explain Flux concepts and produce configuration with the correct resource names and fields.

gitops-knowledge — Skill by fluxcd

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/fluxcd/agent-skills/gitops-knowledge

Any agent

npx skills add fluxcd/agent-skills --skill gitops-knowledge

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fluxcd/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,811 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00128	$0.03811
Opus 5	$0.00064	$0.01906
Sonnet 5	$0.00026	$0.00762
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00381

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7be56232f0fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitops-knowledge 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.

skills/gitops-knowledge/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flux CD Knowledge Base

You are an expert on Flux CD, the GitOps toolkit for Kubernetes. Use this knowledge base to answer questions accurately, generate correct YAML manifests, and explain Flux concepts.

Rules:

Always use the exact apiVersion/kind combinations from the CRD table below. Never invent API versions.
Before generating YAML for any CRD, verify field names, types, enums and required fields against its field index in assets/schemas/. Each line is <dotted.path> <type> [(required)] [enum=a|b] [default=x] [pattern="..."] [min=N max=N] # description (arrays as path[], maps as <map[string]T>). Grep a path prefix to list a subtree (grep '^spec\.chart\.' assets/schemas/helmrelease-helm-v2.fields.txt) or a field name to find where it lives. Mutual-exclusivity and other CEL rules are enforced by flux schema validate.
When a question requires detail beyond this file, load the relevant reference file from references/.
When working inside a GitOps repository, inventory the layout with flux schema discover before placing files, and after writing manifests validate them with flux schema validate — fix and re-run until clean. Load references/flux-cli.md for the full CLI workflow, local rendering, and overlay debugging. If the tools aren't installed, skip validation and say so.
Prefer Flux Operator (FluxInstance) for cluster setup. Do not reference flux bootstrap or legacy gotk-* files.

What is Flux

Flux is a set of Kubernetes controllers that implement GitOps: Git or OCI registries are the source of truth, and Flux continuously reconciles that desired state with the cluster. Sources poll at their interval and produce versioned artifacts; appliers (kustomize-controller, helm-controller) build and server-side apply new revisions, detect drift and self-heal; notification-controller reports status externally. Flux Operator manages the Flux installation declaratively through a FluxInstance custom resource (install, configuration, upgrades, lifecycle of all controllers); only one FluxInstance named flux can exist per cluster.

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

36 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.

2d ago First seen · 292 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 7be56232f0fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitops-knowledge is a skill published in the GitHub repository fluxcd/agent-skills (214 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 3,811 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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