linkerd-patterns

linkerd-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,920 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of linkerd-patterns, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes that manages communication between services. It covers encrypted connections, traffic rules, retries, timeouts, and multi-cluster setups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up Linkerd, automatic mutual TLS, canary traffic splits, service profiles, retries, timeouts, or a mesh spanning multiple clusters.
Why use it?
It helps you secure and control service-to-service traffic without adding unnecessary infrastructure complexity. It also provides per-route metrics and safer ways to shift traffic during releases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when setting up Linkerd, automatic mutual TLS, canary traffic splits, service profiles, retries, timeouts, or a mesh spanning multiple clusters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/linkerd-patterns
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 NOMARJ/sigil --skill linkerd-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,920 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.01920
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00768
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00192

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 695e6fa308fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

linkerd-patterns scanned grade B with 2 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 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.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://run.linkerd.io/install | sh

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://run.linkerd.io/install | sh
Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to linkerd-patterns — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packs/infra/skills/cloud/linkerd-patterns/SKILL.md · 312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 312 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linkerd Patterns

Production patterns for Linkerd service mesh - the lightweight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up a lightweight service mesh
  • Implementing automatic mTLS
  • Configuring traffic splits for canary deployments
  • Setting up service profiles for per-route metrics
  • Implementing retries and timeouts
  • Multi-cluster service mesh

Core Concepts

1. Linkerd Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                Control Plane                 │
│  ┌─────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ │
│  │ destiny │ │ identity │ │ proxy-inject │ │
│  └─────────┘ └──────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                      │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Data Plane                   │
│  ┌─────┐    ┌─────┐    ┌─────┐             │
│  │proxy│────│proxy│────│proxy│             │
│  └─────┘    └─────┘    └─────┘             │
│     │           │           │               │
│  ┌──┴──┐    ┌──┴──┐    ┌──┴──┐            │
│  │ app │    │ app │    │ app │            │
│  └─────┘    └─────┘    └─────┘            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2. Key Resources

Resource Purpose
ServiceProfile Per-route metrics, retries, timeouts
TrafficSplit Canary deployments, A/B testing
Server Define server-side policies
ServerAuthorization Access control policies

Templates

Template 1: Mesh Installation

# Install CLI
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://run.linkerd.io/install | sh

# Validate cluster
linkerd check --pre

# Install CRDs
linkerd install --crds | kubectl apply -f -

# Install control plane
linkerd install | kubectl apply -f -

# Verify installation
linkerd check

# Install viz extension (optional)
linkerd viz install | kubectl apply -f -

Read the full file on GitHub · 312 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 · 312 lines · 41 tokens per session scan B 695e6fa308fb

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linkerd-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,920 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 84% identical to linkerd-patterns, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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