podman

podman is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Podman, a tool for building and running containers without requiring a central background daemon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run rootless containers, group containers into pods, connect them to system services, and generate or run Kubernetes configuration.
Why use it?
It lets developers run containers with fewer system privileges and can work in environments where root access is restricted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to run rootless containers, group containers into pods, connect them to system services, and generate or run Kubernetes configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/podman
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill podman
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00016 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 9d ago against content hash a53ea5c483d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podman 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 9d 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/devops/podman/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Podman

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers. It is a drop-in replacement for Docker (alias docker=podman). Podman v5 (2025) features a rewritten hypervisor support for Mac/Windows.

When to Use

  • Security: Rootless containers by default. No central daemon running as root.
  • HPC / Restricted Env: Run containers on systems where you don't have root access.
  • Kubernetes: Generating K8s YAML from running containers (podman kube generate).

Quick Start

# Run a container (Rootless)
podman run -dt -p 8080:80 nginx

# Generate K8s YAML
podman kube generate my-container > pod.yaml

# Run K8s YAML locally
podman kube play pod.yaml

Core Concepts

Daemonless

Fork/Exec model. The parent process is the user shell, not a dockerd daemon. If Podman crashes, it doesn't take down your containers (usually).

Pods

Podman can manage "Pods" (groups of containers sharing network namespace) locally, mimicking K8s Pods.

Quadlet

Systemd integration. Run containers as systemd services effortlessly.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use podman-desktop: A GUI alternative to Docker Desktop.
  • Use Rootless: This is the main selling point. Stick to it to improve security posture.
  • Use podman kube play: Test your K8s manifests locally without a full Minikube cluster.

Don't:

  • Don't mount Docker socket: It doesn't exist. Use the Podman socket if you need tools to talk to the engine, but be aware of API differences.

References

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. 9d ago First seen · 58 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A a53ea5c483d9

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podman is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.