argocd-operations

argocd-operations is a skill for Claude Code from Goodsmileduck/claude-registry. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for managing ArgoCD, a tool that keeps Kubernetes applications matched to their Git repository definitions. It covers ApplicationSets, deployment ordering, sync settings, and tenant-specific applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or debug ApplicationSets, choose generators, template deployments for multiple tenants, configure sync waves and hooks, and review automated pruning or self-healing.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose deployment and configuration problems while keeping Git as the source of truth. It also highlights ownership conflicts and risky changes that could remove applications or resources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the kubernetes-skills plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or debug ApplicationSets, choose generators, template deployments for multiple tenants, configure sync waves and hooks, and review automated pruning or self-healing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goodsmileduck/claude-registry/argocd-operations
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 Goodsmileduck/claude-registry --skill argocd-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Goodsmileduck/claude-registry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kubernetes-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,610 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 $0.00071 $0.02610
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01305
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00522
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00261

Measured 9d ago against content hash f306c50ad7c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argocd-operations 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.

plugins/kubernetes-skills/skills/argocd-operations/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ArgoCD

GitOps posture (the rules behind every recommendation here)

Every recommendation in this skill assumes GitOps-mode: Git is the source of truth, the cluster is a downstream replica. That implies three hard rules:

  1. Edit the chart/values, not the live object. kubectl edit deploy/foo on an Argo-managed resource is reverted in ~3 minutes by selfHeal. The fix is a commit to the source repo. Temporary hotfixes are allowed only when (a) explicitly requested, (b) labelled as a hotfix, (c) followed by a TODO to backport.
  2. One owner per resource. If ArgoCD manages a resource, Terraform must not also write it. If you're moving ownership from Terraform → Argo (or vice versa), close the loop: either remove the resource from the losing side's source or add ignore_changes / Argo Ignore annotations. See the state-operations.md reference in the terraform-workflows skill for the Terraform side.
  3. --prune is the moral equivalent of terraform destroy. Any argocd app sync --prune, app delete --cascade, or applicationsSync change that could prune Applications requires per-invocation confirmation. List what would be pruned (argocd app diff --refresh) and pause before executing.

When to invoke

Scenarios:

  • You need one Application per X (cluster, tenant, directory, PR) and don't want to author them by hand.
  • A multi-tenant deploy (per-clinic, per-customer, per-env) needs to scale without copy-pasting Application manifests.
  • An ApplicationSet generated unexpected Applications, deleted ones you wanted to keep, or kept ones you wanted gone.
  • Sync waves aren't ordering as expected; PreSync/PostSync hooks aren't firing.
  • prune: true + selfHeal: true produced surprising behavior.

Always-on defaults (set these at the top of every ApplicationSet)

apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: ApplicationSet
metadata:
  name: <name>
  namespace: argocd
spec:
  goTemplate: true                              # use Go templating, not fasttemplate
  goTemplateOptions: ["missingkey=error"]       # fail loudly on missing keys instead of ""
  syncPolicy:
    applicationsSync: create-update             # disallow auto-delete of generated Applications
    preserveResourcesOnDeletion: true           # if Application is deleted, leave the workloads

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 9d ago First seen · 221 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A f306c50ad7c0

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argocd-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository Goodsmileduck/claude-registry (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,610 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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