kubectl

kubectl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from greedychipmunk/agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using kubectl, the command-line tool for managing Kubernetes clusters, namespaces, resources, and workloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking cluster connectivity, viewing resources and pods, applying manifests, inspecting labels and namespaces, and diagnosing crashes or image-download failures.
Why use it?
It makes routine cluster operations more deliberate and includes guidance for setup, inspection, applying changes, and troubleshooting failed workloads.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for checking cluster connectivity, viewing resources and pods, applying manifests, inspecting labels and namespaces, and diagnosing crashes or image-download failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/kubectl
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 greedychipmunk/agent-skills --skill kubectl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greedychipmunk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 919 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 3
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 18
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 3
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 18
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 7d ago against content hash d922086b7ceb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kubectl 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 7d 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.

kubectl/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kubectl

Use this skill to keep Kubernetes resource management deterministic and safe across clusters and namespaces.

Intent Router

Request Reference Load When
Install, kubeconfig setup, contexts, env vars resources/install-and-setup.md User needs to install kubectl or configure KUBECONFIG/contexts
Core commands: get/describe/apply/delete/logs/exec resources/command-cookbook.md User needs daily kubectl operations
Resources, labels, namespaces, explain resources/resource-management.md User asks about resource types, labels, selectors, or declarative workflows
Pod crashes, ImagePull errors, events, debug resources/troubleshooting.md User encounters CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, or needs cluster diagnostics

Quick Start

# Verify connectivity
kubectl cluster-info
kubectl get nodes

# Confirm active context and namespace
kubectl config current-context
kubectl config view --minify

# List pods in all namespaces
kubectl get pods -A

# Apply a manifest
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml --dry-run=client
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

Core Command Tracks

  • Read state: kubectl get/describe <resource> — inspect current cluster state
  • Apply changes: kubectl apply -f — declarative reconciliation
  • Logs: kubectl logs <pod> [-c <container>] [-f] [--previous]
  • Shell: kubectl exec -it <pod> -- bash
  • Port forward: kubectl port-forward <pod> 8080:80
  • Rollout: kubectl rollout status/history/undo deployment/<name>
  • Scale: kubectl scale deployment/<name> --replicas=3
  • Output formats: -o wide, -o json, -o yaml, -o jsonpath

Safety Guardrails

  • Always confirm active context (kubectl config current-context) before applying changes to prevent applying to the wrong cluster.
  • Always specify namespace explicitly with -n <namespace> for production operations; never rely on default namespace alone.
  • Use --dry-run=client -o yaml to preview resources before applying.
  • Use kubectl diff -f <file> to see what will change before applying.
  • Confirm before running kubectl delete — especially with label selectors (-l) which can match many resources.
  • Never run kubectl delete namespace <name> without explicit user confirmation; it deletes all resources in the namespace.
  • Prefer kubectl rollout undo over direct manifest rewrites for reverting deployments.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 7d ago First seen · 91 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A d922086b7ceb

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kubectl is a skill published in the GitHub repository greedychipmunk/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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