container-development

container-development is a skill for Claude Code from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building Docker containers, including multi-stage builds, smaller base images, Docker Compose, and safer runtime settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write Dockerfiles, compose services, configure twelve-factor applications, and harden containers with non-root users and minimal images.
Why use it?
It helps avoid oversized or unnecessarily exposed container images and gives developers repeatable patterns for containerized services.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the container-plugin plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to write Dockerfiles, compose services, configure twelve-factor applications, and harden…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/container-development
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 laurigates/claude-plugins --skill container-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install container-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for container-development

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,199 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00045 $0.03199
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01599
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00640
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00320

Measured 3d ago against content hash 88500c95b484, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

container-development scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Non-root user**: REQUIRED - never run as root in production

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

container-plugin/skills/container-development/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Container Development

Expert knowledge for containerization and orchestration with focus on security-first, lean container images and 12-factor app methodology.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use a language-specific sibling (go-containers, nodejs-containers, python-containers) instead when...
Writing or optimizing language-agnostic Dockerfiles Optimizing Go static binaries, Node.js Alpine builds, or Python slim images
Authoring multi-stage build patterns or 12-factor configuration The image-size goal is dominated by language runtime choices (scratch, distroless, musl/glibc)
Hardening containers (non-root, minimal base, secrets) Running Skaffold sync (skaffold-filesync) or OrbStack networking (skaffold-orbstack)
Composing services with Docker Compose The work is purely a Skaffold pre-deploy test (skaffold-testing)

Security Philosophy (Non-Negotiable)

Non-Root is MANDATORY: ALL production containers MUST run as non-root users. This is not optional.

Minimal Base Images: Use Alpine (~5MB) for Node.js/Go/Rust. Use slim (~50MB) for Python (musl compatibility issues with Alpine).

Multi-Stage Builds Required: Separate build and runtime environments. Build tools should NOT be in production images.

Core Expertise

Container Image Construction

  • Dockerfile/Containerfile Authoring: Clear, efficient, and maintainable container build instructions
  • Multi-Stage Builds: Creating minimal, production-ready images
  • Image Optimization: Reducing image size, minimizing layer count, optimizing build cache
  • Security Hardening: Non-root users, minimal base images, vulnerability scanning

Container Orchestration

  • Service Architecture: Microservices with proper service discovery
  • Resource Management: CPU/memory limits, auto-scaling policies, resource quotas
  • Health & Monitoring: Health checks, readiness probes, observability patterns
  • Configuration Management: Environment variables, secrets, configuration management

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 308 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 88500c95b484

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container-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (58 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,199 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.