kubernetes-operational-review

kubernetes-operational-review is a skill for Claude Code from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Kubernetes operations review guide for checking whether deployed workloads are ready to run reliably in production. Kubernetes is a system for running and managing containers across servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review probes, disruption budgets, rollout strategy, observability, graceful shutdown, and dependency handling, or to investigate common pod failures.
Why use it?
It helps find missing health checks, weak rollout plans, poor shutdown handling, and gaps in logging, metrics, or tracing before they cause outages.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the shield plugin — 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review probes, disruption budgets, rollout strategy, observability, graceful shutdown, and dependency handling, or to investigate common pod failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/infraspecdev/tesseract/operational-review
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 infraspecdev/tesseract --skill operational-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infraspecdev/tesseract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,018 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 $0.00064 $0.01018
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00407
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3d2cbc1a95e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kubernetes-operational-review 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 1mo 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.

shield/skills/kubernetes/operational-review/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes Operational Review

Overview

Production readiness review for Kubernetes workloads. Checks that deployments are resilient, observable, and operable — covering health probes, disruption budgets, rollout strategy, observability, and graceful shutdown. A workload that passes security and cost review can still cause outages if it lacks proper probes or PDBs.

Only triggers when there is clear evidence of Kubernetes usage. When ambiguous, ask the user before proceeding.

When to Use

  • When reviewing K8s workloads for production readiness
  • When auditing health probe configuration (liveness, readiness, startup)
  • When checking PodDisruptionBudgets and rollout strategy
  • When evaluating observability setup (logging, metrics, tracing)
  • When reviewing graceful shutdown and dependency management

When NOT to Use

  • For Terraform operational review — use the sre agent in infra-code mode
  • For security concerns — use kubernetes-security-audit
  • For cost concerns — use kubernetes-cost-review
  • When no K8s evidence is detected and user hasn't mentioned K8s

Workflow

  1. Detect K8s presence: Confirm K8s manifests exist. If ambiguous, ask user.
  2. Collect scope: Identify all workloads (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs).
  3. Probe audit: Check every workload for liveness, readiness, and startup probes. See ops-checklist.md for detailed checks.
  4. Disruption audit: Verify PDBs exist for production workloads, check minAvailable/maxUnavailable values.
  5. Rollout audit: Check rolling update strategy, maxSurge, maxUnavailable configuration.
  6. Topology audit: Review topology spread constraints, pod anti-affinity for HA.
  7. Observability audit: Check for monitoring annotations, logging sidecars, tracing config.
  8. Shutdown audit: Verify preStop hooks, terminationGracePeriodSeconds, SIGTERM handling.
  9. Dependency audit: Check init containers, dependency ordering, ConfigMap/Secret reload strategy.
  10. EKS-specific checks (if EKS detected): ALB ingress annotations, CloudWatch Container Insights, EBS CSI driver, ExternalDNS.
  11. Deprecation flag: If deprecated APIs are found, flag them and recommend deprecation-check-and-upgrade.
  12. Produce report: Use the template from templates.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 3d2cbc1a95e0

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kubernetes-operational-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,018 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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