gke-platform-security

gke-platform-security is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gke-labs/kube-agents. It costs 151 tokens per session (2,129 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gke-platform-security, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for securing the Google Kubernetes Engine platform itself, including the cluster and its access controls. It covers features such as Secret Manager integration, role-based access control, Binary Authorization, Shielded Nodes, and GKE Sandbox.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to harden cluster settings, enable secret integration and rotation, remove insecure access bindings, configure identity and access roles, and enable node or container security controls.
Why use it?
It helps reduce risks from weak cluster permissions, unprotected nodes, unauthorised container images, and poorly managed secrets. It also clarifies the difference between cluster security and protections applied to individual workloads.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to harden cluster settings, enable secret integration and rotation, remove insecure access bindings, configure identity and access roles, and enable node or container security controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-platform-security
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 gke-labs/kube-agents --skill gke-platform-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gke-labs/kube-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,129 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00151 $0.02129
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01064
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00213

Measured 12d ago against content hash 45373badf611, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gke-platform-security 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to gke-platform-security — 6 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.

agents/platform/skills/gke-platform-security/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GKE Platform Security

This reference covers platform-level security hardening and cluster configuration for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). For workload-level security controls (such as Workload Identity Service Account bindings, SecretProviderClass volume mounts, Network Policies, and Pod Security Standards), refer to the gke-workload-security skill.

MCP Tools: gke:get_cluster, k8s:check_k8s_auth, k8s:get_k8s_resource, k8s:apply_k8s_manifest, gke:update_cluster

Golden Path Security Defaults

Setting Golden Path Value Day-0/1 Notes
workloadIdentityConfig.workloadPool <PROJECT>.svc.id.goog Day-0 Workload Identity Federation for cluster pods
secretManagerConfig.enabled true Day-1 Google Secret Manager cluster add-on integration
secretManagerConfig.rotationConfig enabled: true, rotationInterval: 120s Day-1 Automatic secret rotation at the cluster level
rbacBindingConfig.enableInsecureBindingSystemAuthenticated false Day-0 Blocks legacy system:authenticated bindings
rbacBindingConfig.enableInsecureBindingSystemUnauthenticated false Day-0 Blocks legacy system:unauthenticated bindings
nodeConfig.shieldedInstanceConfig.enableSecureBoot true Day-0 Verifiable boot integrity
nodeConfig.shieldedInstanceConfig.enableIntegrityMonitoring true Day-0 Runtime integrity checks
nodeConfig.workloadMetadataConfig.mode GKE_METADATA Day-0 Blocks legacy metadata API, enforces Workload Identity
Private cluster + Dataplane V2 settings See the gke-networking skill Day-0 Private nodes, private endpoint enforcement, ADVANCED_DATAPATH

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 200 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 45373badf611

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gke-platform-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 2,129 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to gke-platform-security, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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