kubernetes-specialist

kubernetes-specialist is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes, a system that runs and coordinates containers across servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, Services, Ingress rules, Helm charts, storage settings, access controls, network isolation, and resource limits.
Why use it?
It helps define workloads, networking, storage, permissions, and health checks in a repeatable way, and supports troubleshooting when containers fail.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

not rated 11krepo +76 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 79 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to create Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, Services, Ingress rules, Helm charts, storage settings, access controls, network isolation, and resource limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/claude-skills/kubernetes-specialist
About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,426 stars · on GitHub

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 Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill kubernetes-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,901 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
  • Socket pass 29 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 29 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00079 $0.01901
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00950
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00380
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00190

Measured 12d ago against content hash f84cb51c8696, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kubernetes-specialist 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/kubernetes-specialist/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes Specialist

When to Use This Skill

  • Deploying workloads (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs)
  • Configuring networking (Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies)
  • Managing configuration (ConfigMaps, Secrets, environment variables)
  • Setting up persistent storage (PV, PVC, StorageClasses)
  • Creating Helm charts for application packaging
  • Troubleshooting cluster and workload issues
  • Implementing security best practices

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze requirements — Understand workload characteristics, scaling needs, security requirements
  2. Design architecture — Choose workload types, networking patterns, storage solutions
  3. Implement manifests — Create declarative YAML with proper resource limits, health checks
  4. Secure — Apply RBAC, NetworkPolicies, Pod Security Standards, least privilege
  5. Validate — Run kubectl rollout status, kubectl get pods -w, and kubectl describe pod <name> to confirm health; roll back with kubectl rollout undo if needed

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Workloads references/workloads.md Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs
Networking references/networking.md Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, DNS
Configuration references/configuration.md ConfigMaps, Secrets, environment variables
Storage references/storage.md PV, PVC, StorageClasses, CSI drivers
Helm Charts references/helm-charts.md Chart structure, values, templates, hooks, testing, repositories
Troubleshooting references/troubleshooting.md kubectl debug, logs, events, common issues
Custom Operators references/custom-operators.md CRD, Operator SDK, controller-runtime, reconciliation
Service Mesh references/service-mesh.md Istio, Linkerd, traffic management, mTLS, canary
GitOps references/gitops.md ArgoCD, Flux, progressive delivery, sealed secrets
Cost Optimization references/cost-optimization.md VPA, HPA tuning, spot instances, quotas, right-sizing
Multi-Cluster references/multi-cluster.md Cluster API, federation, cross-cluster networking, DR

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 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 · 244 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A f84cb51c8696

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kubernetes-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,426 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,901 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 2026-08-30.

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