gitops-workflows

gitops-workflows is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,536 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to GitOps deployment workflows for Kubernetes using Argo CD and Flux. GitOps keeps the desired system setup in Git and continuously compares the running system with it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design declarative Kubernetes delivery, environment promotion, progressive releases, secret handling, rollbacks, and multi-cluster workflows.
Why use it?
It helps manage deployments across clusters and environments while detecting configuration drift and keeping changes traceable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design declarative Kubernetes delivery, environment promotion, progressive releases, secret handling, rollbacks, and multi-cluster workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickcrew/claude-cortex/gitops-workflows
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NickCrew/Claude-Cortex --skill gitops-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,536 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00043 $0.01536
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00154

Measured 4d ago against content hash a2618e470fcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitops-workflows scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 4d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/gitops-workflows/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitOps Workflows

Expert guidance for implementing production-grade GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and Flux CD, covering declarative deployment patterns, progressive delivery strategies, multi-environment management, and secure secret handling for Kubernetes infrastructure.

When to Use This Skill

  • Implementing GitOps principles for Kubernetes deployments
  • Automating continuous delivery from Git repositories
  • Managing multi-cluster or multi-environment deployments
  • Implementing progressive delivery (canary, blue-green) strategies
  • Configuring automated sync policies and reconciliation
  • Managing secrets securely in GitOps workflows
  • Setting up environment promotion workflows
  • Designing repository structures for GitOps (monorepo vs multi-repo)
  • Implementing rollback strategies and disaster recovery
  • Establishing compliance and audit trails through Git

Core Concepts

The Four Principles

  1. Declarative: Entire system state expressed in code
  2. Versioned: Canonical state stored in Git with full history
  3. Pulled Automatically: Agents pull desired state (no push to prod)
  4. Continuously Reconciled: Automatic drift detection and correction

Key Benefits

  • Complete deployment history and audit trail
  • Fast rollback via Git operations
  • Enhanced security (no cluster credentials in CI)
  • Self-healing infrastructure
  • Multi-cluster consistency
  • Familiar Git workflows for infrastructure changes

Quick Reference

Task Load reference
GitOps principles and benefits skills/gitops-workflows/references/core-principles.md
Repository structure patterns (monorepo, multi-repo, branches) skills/gitops-workflows/references/repository-structures.md
ArgoCD setup, Applications, ApplicationSets skills/gitops-workflows/references/argocd-implementation.md
Flux bootstrap, sources, Kustomizations, HelmReleases skills/gitops-workflows/references/flux-implementation.md
Environment promotion strategies skills/gitops-workflows/references/environment-promotion.md
Secret management (Sealed Secrets, ESO, SOPS) skills/gitops-workflows/references/secret-management.md
Progressive delivery (canary, blue-green) skills/gitops-workflows/references/progressive-delivery.md
Rollback strategies and disaster recovery skills/gitops-workflows/references/rollback-strategies.md
Best practices and patterns skills/gitops-workflows/references/best-practices.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 4d ago First seen · 179 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A a2618e470fcc

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gitops-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (38 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,536 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.