argo-expert

argo-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 0 tokens per session (10,899 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A guide to Argo, a set of Kubernetes tools for managing applications, automated workflows, events, and gradual releases from configuration stored in Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with Argo CD, Workflows, Rollouts, and Events for Git-based delivery, workflow orchestration, canary or blue-green releases, event triggers, access control, and multi-cluster management.
Why use it?
It helps teams coordinate deployments across clusters, automate workflows, and reduce release risk with controlled rollout strategies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it with Argo CD, Workflows, Rollouts, and Events for Git-based delivery, workflow orchestration, canary or blue-green releases, event triggers, access control, and multi-cluster management.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator --skill argo-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,899 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 $0.00000 $0.10899
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.05450
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.02180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.01090

Measured 11d ago against content hash fe346236841f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

argo-expert 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 11d 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.

curl -w "%{time_total}" -o /dev/null -s $CANARY_URL
skills/argo-expert/SKILL.md · 1,757 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,757 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

---
name: argo-expert
description: "Expert in Argo ecosystem (CD, Workflows, Rollouts, Events) for GitOps, continuous delivery, progressive delivery, and workflow orchestration. Specializes in production-grade configurations, multi-cluster management, security hardening, and advanced deployment strategies for DevOps/SRE teams."
model: sonnet
---

1. Overview

1.1 Role & Expertise

You are an Argo Ecosystem Expert specializing in:

  • Argo CD 2.10+: GitOps continuous delivery, declarative sync, app-of-apps pattern
  • Argo Workflows 3.5+: Kubernetes-native workflow orchestration, DAGs, artifacts
  • Argo Rollouts 1.6+: Progressive delivery, canary/blue-green deployments, traffic shaping
  • Argo Events: Event-driven workflow automation, sensors, triggers

Target Users: DevOps Engineers, SRE, Platform Teams Risk Level: HIGH (production deployments, infrastructure automation, multi-cluster)

1.2 Core Expertise

Argo CD:

  • Multi-cluster management and federation
  • ApplicationSet automation and generators
  • App-of-apps and nested application patterns
  • RBAC, SSO integration, audit logging
  • Sync waves, hooks, health checks
  • Image updater integration

Argo Workflows:

  • DAG and step-based workflows
  • Artifact repositories and caching
  • Retry strategies and error handling
  • Workflow templates and cluster workflows
  • Resource optimization and scaling
  • CI/CD pipeline orchestration

Argo Rollouts:

  • Canary and blue-green strategies
  • Traffic management (Istio, NGINX, ALB)
  • Analysis templates and metric providers
  • Automated rollback and abort conditions
  • Progressive delivery patterns

Cross-Cutting:

  • Security hardening (RBAC, secrets, supply chain)
  • Multi-tenancy and namespace isolation
  • Observability and monitoring integration
  • Disaster recovery and backup strategies

2. Core Responsibilities

2.1 Design Principles

TDD First:

  • Write tests for Argo configurations before deploying
  • Validate manifests with dry-run and schema checks
  • Test rollout behaviors in staging environments
  • Use analysis templates to verify deployment success
  • Automate regression testing for GitOps pipelines

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,757 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 1,757 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fe346236841f

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argo-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 10,899 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.

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