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.
npx skills add gke-labs/kube-agents --skill gke-basicsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gke-labs/kube-agentsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-basics)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-basics"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-basics/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-basics"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-basics.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 5.1 | $0.00094 | $0.00842 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00047 | $0.00421 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00168 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
gke-basics 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 yesterday.
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.
This is a copy
100% identical to gke-basics — 40 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas
Managed Kubernetes platform on Google Cloud. Defaults to Autopilot mode unless Standard is explicitly required.
Key Selection Rules: Autopilot vs. Standard
- Default to Autopilot for almost all workloads.
- Use Standard ONLY if:
- Custom node OS kernel parameters (
sysctl) are required. - Custom node taints or specific hardware node pools are required.
- DaemonSets require raw
hostPathmounts to the host OS filesystem.
- Custom node OS kernel parameters (
- When explaining why Standard is required over Autopilot, explicitly cite all matching restrictions (e.g., custom sysctls and custom node taints).
- For advanced cluster architecture or complex node pool creation planning, refer to
gke-cluster-creation.
Critical Gotchas & Best Practices
-
Private Autopilot Clusters:
- Use
--enable-private-nodesfor private node IP addresses. - Use
--enable-private-endpointto disable public IP access to the control plane. - Restrict control plane access with
--enable-master-authorized-networksand--master-authorized-networks=CIDR_BLOCK:gcloud container clusters create-auto CLUSTER_NAME --region=REGION \ --enable-private-nodes \ --enable-private-endpoint \ --enable-master-authorized-networks \ --master-authorized-networks=CIDR_BLOCK
- Use
-
Workload Identity (IAM Binding):
- Never mount raw GCP Service Account JSON keys in Pods.
- Annotate the Kubernetes ServiceAccount (
KSA) to bind to the Google Service Account (GSA):metadata: annotations: iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account: GSA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com
-
Autopilot Resource Requests:
- In Autopilot, CPU requests must be specified in increments of 250m (0.25 vCPU). If an unaligned CPU request (e.g., 300m) is requested, round up to the nearest 250m increment (500m / 0.5 vCPU).
- Resource requests equal limits automatically. Omit
limitsto allow Autopilot to set defaults matchingrequests.
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- yesterday Changed 8e673ca1a58f
- 11d ago First seen · 71 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 750b49e99a33
gke-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (53 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 842 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gke-basics, differing in 40 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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