docker-local-build

docker-local-build is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kurtosis-tech/kurtosis. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,430 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for building the Kurtosis software stack from source on a local Docker setup. It builds the engine, supporting service images, and command-line program, then installs and restarts them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compile Kurtosis, build its Docker images, install a locally built command-line tool, and configure options such as image building, debug images, or Podman.
Why use it?
It gives developers a repeatable way to test changes to Kurtosis itself instead of relying on an older installed build.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/local-build.sh.

Good fit Use it to compile Kurtosis, build its Docker images, install a locally built command-line tool, and configure options such as image building, debug images, or Podman.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/docker-local-build

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,430 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: 5 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 Tool Misuse · line 106
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 107
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 108
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 109
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 110
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00143

Measured 10d ago against content hash cd27c691f69b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docker-local-build 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 10d 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.

skills/docker-local-build/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docker Local Build

Build all Kurtosis components from source and test them locally on Docker.

Overview

This skill builds the full Kurtosis stack for local Docker testing:

  • Engine — Docker image kurtosistech/engine
  • Core (APIC) — Docker image kurtosistech/core
  • Files Artifacts Expander — Docker image kurtosistech/files-artifacts-expander
  • CLI — binary at .tmp/kurtosis, installed to /usr/local/bin/kurtosis

All images are tagged with the current git short SHA (+ -dirty if uncommitted changes exist) via scripts/get-docker-tag.sh. The same tag is compiled into the CLI as KurtosisVersion.

Run the wrapper script from the repo root. It handles version generation, image builds, CLI compilation, installation, and engine reset:

./scripts/local-build.sh

Environment variables

Variable Default Description
INSTALL_PATH /usr/local/bin/kurtosis Where to install the CLI binary
BUILD_IMAGES true Set to false to skip Docker image builds (CLI only)
DEBUG_IMAGE false Build debug images with delve debugger
PODMAN_MODE false Use podman instead of docker
RESET_KURTOSIS_AFTER_BUILD true Stop engine and clean containers after build

Examples

# Full build + install + reset
./scripts/local-build.sh

# CLI only (skip image builds)
BUILD_IMAGES=false ./scripts/local-build.sh

# Build with debug images
DEBUG_IMAGE=true ./scripts/local-build.sh

# Install to a custom path
INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/kurtosis ./scripts/local-build.sh

# Skip engine reset (keep running enclaves)
RESET_KURTOSIS_AFTER_BUILD=false ./scripts/local-build.sh

Manual build (step by step)

1. Generate version constants

./scripts/generate-kurtosis-version.sh

This writes the git-based version tag into kurtosis_version/kurtosis_version.go.

2. Build Docker images

The existing build scripts handle binary compilation, unit tests, and Docker image building:

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 10d ago First seen · 152 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A cd27c691f69b

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docker-local-build is a skill published in the GitHub repository kurtosis-tech/kurtosis (551 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,430 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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