Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gke-labs/kube-agentsnpx agentmods add skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-cluster-creationWrote 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-cluster-creation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-cluster-creation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-cluster-creation/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-cluster-creation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-cluster-creation.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 | $0.00092 | $0.03522 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00037 | $0.01409 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00704 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00352 |
Grade A, and why
gke-cluster-creation 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 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.
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
89% identical to gke-cluster-creation — 207 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 — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
GKE Cluster Creation
This reference guides creating Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters by providing a set of best-practice templates and guiding through mode selection and customization. The golden path Autopilot configuration is the default for a new cluster whose workload states no requirement it cannot meet.
MCP Tools:
list_clusters,get_cluster,list_operations,get_operation
Workflow
- Discover context: Use
list_clustersto see existing clusters. Usegcloud config get-value projectif project unknown. - Gather inputs:
project_id,location(region or zone),cluster_name, environment type. If missing essential details, ask the user before taking action. - Select mode & explain trade-offs: When the request names a workload
the cluster is for ("with Agent Substrate installed"), read that
workload's install requirements before choosing anything (
SOUL.md§3, item 4.1): the Developer Knowledge MCP for what Google documents, the project's own repository (inspect-repository) otherwise. A requirement it states (Standard mode, a machine series, beta APIs, a node label, a bucket or IAM binding it expects) overrides every template default below, and the pull request body lists each one with its source. Search-result snippets are not requirements. If the user hasn't specified a template or mode, present the available templates (e.g., Autopilot, Standard Regional, GPU Inference, AI Hypercompute) and explain key trade-offs (Cost vs. Availability, Autopilot vs. Standard node management). - Configure networking: auto-create subnet (default) or bring-your-own.
- Review golden path settings: present the default configuration block (the template's settings, with step 3's workload requirements applied over them) as the configuration the pull request will carry.
- Propose: Write the configuration as a pull request in the format the
GitOps repository's
provisioning/path already holds: Config Connector YAML through thegcp-config-connectorskill, Terraform HCL through thegcp-terraformskill. An emptyprovisioning/path or no usable repository is a stated stop (SOUL.md§3, items 6 and 7). Never create the cluster directly: thegkeMCP server offers no create tool, and the broker refusesgcloud container clusters create. - Track: Once the pull request merges and the reconciler starts the
create, use
get_operationto monitor its progress. - Verify: Use
get_clusterwithreadMask="*"to confirm the settings the pull request carried applied.
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.
- 4d ago Changed · +1 lines 22e8944021eb
- 5d ago Changed · +12 lines ffa97a7dcab3
- 8d ago Changed · -64 lines · +10 tokens per session 44543234f669
- 1mo ago Changed a71bc91fdfe4
- 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines 78cadc06d01c
- 1mo ago First seen · 393 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 80515638b48c
gke-cluster-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (116 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 3,522 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to gke-cluster-creation, differing in 207 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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