kube-agents: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/install-kube-agents/SKILL.md

install-kube-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gke-labs/kube-agents. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,776 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for provisioning and installing the Kubernetes Agentic Harness, a platform for running software agents, on a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. It supports both interactive and non-interactive installation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install, upgrade, or remove kube-agents on GKE, check required command-line tools, and manage the related Google Cloud and Kubernetes resources.
Why use it?
It coordinates configuration, infrastructure creation, Kubernetes deployment, and stored Terraform state so the installation can be repeated or managed later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is gke-labs/kube-agents's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on kube-agents itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kube-agents configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gke-labs/kube-agents. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gke-labs/kube-agents/main/.agents/skills/install-kube-agents/SKILL.md
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 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,776 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00032 $0.02776
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01388
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00555
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00278

Measured today against content hash 558718f89941, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

install-kube-agents scanned grade C with 2 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 today.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gke-labs/kube-agents/<RELEASE_VERSION>/install.sh | bash -s -- \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gke-labs/kube-agents/<RELEASE_VERSION>/install.sh | bash -s -- \
.agents/skills/install-kube-agents/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

install-kube-agents Skill

This skill provides step-by-step instructions for AI Agents to non-interactively provision Google Cloud GKE infrastructure and deploy the kube-agents Platform Agent.

What install.sh actually does

It is a front-end, not a second provisioner. It loads install.env (the install's hand-authored configuration), collects anything still missing, generates terraform/examples/full-install/terraform.tfvars from the result, and then runs the composition's lifecycle.sh apply — the Terraform root in terraform/examples/full-install/ owns every GCP resource and installs the Helm chart (charts/kube-agents) that owns every Kubernetes one. Terraform state goes to a GCS bucket (<project>-kube-agents-tfstate, versioned, prefix kube-agents/<cluster>), so uninstall.sh and upgrade.sh can find the install from a fresh clone. The installer sources scripts/installer/installer_common.sh before its first prompt, so its defaults and accepted values are the ones defined there; that file is where a default changes.

Order of operations: resolve the image/source ref → check CLI prerequisites (including terraform, which it offers to install; make is not needed) → put the repository on disk and verify it against that ref → load install.env → interview for what is missing → generate terraform.tfvars → refuse a service account another install in the project owns (check_service_account_ownership, before the summary and the dry-run exit) → run lifecycle.sh apply. The source check happens before the interview, so a bad ref fails in seconds rather than after a dozen answers. Some steps stay gcloud calls outside the apply — before it, CMEK, the Workload Identity pool and NetworkPolicy enforcement on a pre-existing cluster; after it, the managed-OTel scope on a cluster it created — and the GitHub App PEM import runs through the Minty CLI so the key never enters Terraform state. Re-running the installer (or its --menu Day-2 panel's Save & Apply) reconciles every change through one terraform apply.

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. today Changed · +7 lines 558718f89941
  2. yesterday Changed · +20 lines 5eae223ff405
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  4. 11d ago First seen · 140 lines · 32 tokens per session scan C 445621ef104f

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install-kube-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (53 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,776 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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