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

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.

It helps teams coordinate deployments across clusters, automate workflows, and reduce release risk with controlled rollout strategies.

argo-expert — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by martinholovsky

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 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.

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.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.10899
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.04360
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.02180
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.01090

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fe346236841f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

2mo ago First seen · 1,757 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fe346236841f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

argo-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (48 stars, last pushed 11mo 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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