kindctl

kindctl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from orka-agents/orka. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A repository-specific workflow for running kind clusters. kind is a tool that runs Kubernetes clusters inside Docker, and Kubernetes manages containerized applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and operate local Kubernetes test clusters for a repository, including checking nodes and running commands or Helm against the correct cluster.
Why use it?
It keeps each repository or worktree's cluster settings separate from the computer's shared Kubernetes configuration. This reduces the risk of running commands against the wrong cluster.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orka-agents/orka/kindctl
Any agent
npx skills add orka-agents/orka --skill kindctl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/orka-agents/orka

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00055 $0.01169
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00117

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a726ad9e797, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

kindctl scanned grade C 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (templates/setup.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- `~/.kube/config` is a shared mutable global and must not be used for kindctl-managed clusters.
.agents/skills/kindctl/SKILL.md · 176 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 176 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kindctl

Use this skill whenever work involves a local kind cluster, local k8s/Kubernetes, Kubernetes-in-Docker, or repo/worktree-specific test clusters.

Mental model

  • kind clusters are global to the Docker daemon.
  • ~/.kube/config is a shared mutable global and must not be used for kindctl-managed clusters.
  • kindctl derives a cluster name from the current repo/worktree path and stores its kubeconfig in ~/.kube/kind/<name>.kubeconfig.
  • The current directory is enough: random repos and git worktrees do not need to know anything special.

Golden rule for agents

Never run bare kubectl or helm against a kindctl-managed cluster.

Prefer:

.agents/skills/kindctl/bin/kindctl kubectl get nodes
.agents/skills/kindctl/bin/kindctl exec -- helm list

Do not run:

kubectl get pods
kubectl config use-context kind-something
kind create cluster

Installation

This skill is vendored into the repo at .agents/skills/kindctl/. If another harness needs to expose it, create an external skills/kindctl symlink that points back to this canonical directory; this repo does not keep .codex or .copilot mirrors. Invoke the wrapper by its repo-relative path:

.agents/skills/kindctl/bin/kindctl <command>

The skill itself should invoke bin/kindctl by absolute path or by resolving the skill directory. Do not rely on shell aliases.

Commands

kindctl create [--config F] [--tag T] [--k8s-version vX.Y.Z]
kindctl delete [--tag T]
kindctl kubectl [--tag T] <args...>
kindctl exec [--tag T] -- <cmd...>
kindctl path [--tag T]
kindctl ctx [--tag T]
kindctl env [--tag T]
kindctl load [--tag T] <image>
kindctl hibernate [--tag T]
kindctl resume [--tag T]
kindctl list [--workspace|--all]
kindctl doctor
kindctl prune --workspace [--yes]
kindctl prune --dead [--yes]
kindctl nuke [--yes]

If kindctl is not on PATH, use the repo-relative path:

.agents/skills/kindctl/bin/kindctl <command>

Recipes

Create and use a repo cluster

Read the full file on GitHub · 176 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago First seen · 176 lines · 55 tokens per session scan C 2a726ad9e797

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kindctl is a skill published in the GitHub repository orka-agents/orka (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.