skaffold-orbstack

skaffold-orbstack is a skill for Claude Code from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Skaffold setup for running Kubernetes applications locally with OrbStack, a macOS tool that provides local containers and Kubernetes. It lets services use OrbStack's local network names instead of manual port forwarding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure Skaffold, set up file syncing, expose services through local DNS or load balancers, and add test or verification steps around deployments.
Why use it?
It removes the repeated setup and interruption of forwarding each service port to your computer during development. It also helps move an existing Skaffold project to OrbStack networking.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it to configure Skaffold, set up file syncing, expose services through local DNS or load balancers, and add test or verification steps around deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/skaffold-orbstack
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 skaffold-orbstack
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.

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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 2,625 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. Third-party audits
  • 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 $0.00047 $0.02625
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01050
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00263

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a63b537c56db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skaffold-orbstack 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

**Access**: `curl http://my-app.default.svc.cluster.local` from macOS
container-plugin/skills/skaffold-orbstack/SKILL.md · 432 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 432 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skaffold with OrbStack - Port-Forward-Free Development

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use a sibling Skaffold/container skill instead when...
Wiring Skaffold against the OrbStack local Kubernetes cluster Defining file-sync rules for the inner dev loop (skaffold-filesync)
Reaching services via *.k8s.orb.local, LoadBalancer, or Ingress without port-forward Adding pre-deploy test or post-deploy verify stages (skaffold-testing)
Migrating an existing project off kubectl port-forward onto OrbStack networking Hardening or shrinking the container image itself (container-development)

Overview

OrbStack provides superior local Kubernetes networking compared to other tools (minikube, kind, Docker Desktop). Services are accessible directly from macOS without port-forward.

Key OrbStack Advantages

Feature OrbStack minikube/kind
LoadBalancer auto-provision ✅ Yes ❌ Needs MetalLB
Wildcard DNS (*.k8s.orb.local) ✅ Yes ❌ No
cluster.local from host ✅ Yes ❌ No
Pod IP direct access ✅ Yes ❌ No
Auto HTTPS certificates ✅ Yes ❌ No

Service Access Methods

Method 1: LoadBalancer Services (Simplest)

Change service type from ClusterIP to LoadBalancer:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: my-app
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer  # OrbStack auto-provisions external IP
  ports:
    - port: 80
      targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: my-app

Access: curl http://my-app.default.svc.cluster.local from macOS

Method 2: Ingress with Wildcard DNS (Recommended)

One-time setup - Install Ingress controller:

# Ingress-NGINX (recommended)
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/controller-v1.8.1/deploy/static/provider/cloud/deploy.yaml

# OR Traefik
helm repo add traefik https://traefik.github.io/charts
helm install traefik traefik/traefik

Create Ingress for your service:

Read the full file on GitHub · 432 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. 1mo ago First seen · 432 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a63b537c56db

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skaffold-orbstack is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,625 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.