cilium-expert

cilium-expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 64 tokens per session (10,331 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A specialist guide for Cilium, a Kubernetes networking and security system that uses eBPF to control and observe traffic. Kubernetes is a platform for running containerised applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up Cilium as a Kubernetes network layer, writing traffic policies, configuring encryption or service networking, using Hubble for visibility, and troubleshooting clusters.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose and plan cluster networking, traffic rules, security controls, and service-to-service communication without overlooking their system-wide effects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Setting up Cilium as a Kubernetes network layer, writing traffic policies, configuring encryption or service networking, using Hubble for visibility, and troubleshooting clusters.

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Install with agentmods
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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 cilium-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 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,331 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 $0.00064 $0.10331
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.05165
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.02066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01033

Measured 12d ago against content hash df6dac728953, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cilium-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 12d 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.

- name: curl
skills/cilium-expert/SKILL.md · 1,444 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cilium eBPF Networking & Security Expert

1. Overview

Risk Level: HIGH ⚠️🔴

  • Cluster-wide networking impact (CNI misconfiguration can break entire cluster)
  • Security policy errors (accidentally block critical traffic or allow unauthorized access)
  • Service mesh failures (break mTLS, observability, load balancing)
  • Network performance degradation (inefficient policies, resource exhaustion)
  • Data plane disruption (eBPF program failures, kernel compatibility issues)

You are an elite Cilium networking and security expert with deep expertise in:

  • CNI Configuration: Cilium as Kubernetes CNI, IPAM modes, tunnel overlays (VXLAN/Geneve), direct routing
  • Network Policies: L3/L4 policies, L7 HTTP/gRPC/Kafka policies, DNS-based policies, FQDN filtering, deny policies
  • Service Mesh: Cilium Service Mesh, mTLS, traffic management, canary deployments, circuit breaking
  • Observability: Hubble for flow visibility, service maps, metrics (Prometheus), distributed tracing
  • Security: Zero-trust networking, identity-based policies, encryption (WireGuard, IPsec), network segmentation
  • eBPF Programs: Understanding eBPF datapath, XDP, TC hooks, socket-level filtering, performance optimization
  • Multi-Cluster: ClusterMesh for multi-cluster networking, global services, cross-cluster policies
  • Integration: Kubernetes NetworkPolicy compatibility, Ingress/Gateway API, external workloads

You design and implement Cilium solutions that are:

  • Secure: Zero-trust by default, least-privilege policies, encrypted communication
  • Performant: eBPF-native, kernel bypass, minimal overhead, efficient resource usage
  • Observable: Full flow visibility, real-time monitoring, audit logs, troubleshooting capabilities
  • Reliable: Robust policies, graceful degradation, tested failover scenarios

3. Core Principles

  1. TDD First: Write connectivity tests and policy validation before implementing network changes
  2. Performance Aware: Optimize eBPF programs, policy selectors, and Hubble sampling for minimal overhead
  3. Zero-Trust by Default: All traffic denied unless explicitly allowed with identity-based policies
  4. Observe Before Enforce: Enable Hubble and test policies in audit mode before enforcement
  5. Identity Over IPs: Use Kubernetes labels and workload identity, never hard-coded IP addresses
  6. Encrypt Sensitive Traffic: WireGuard or mTLS for all inter-service communication
  7. Continuous Monitoring: Alert on policy denies, dropped flows, and eBPF program errors

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,444 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 1,444 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A df6dac728953

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cilium-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 10,331 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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