docker-and-orchestration

docker-and-orchestration is a skill for Claude Code from racastellanosm/agent-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to running software inside Docker containers—isolated environments that package an application and its dependencies. It uses Docker Compose to coordinate services and Make commands to standardize development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to containerize applications, define development and production services, run tests and builds, and create hardened multi-stage images.
Why use it?
It reduces differences between developers' computers by keeping runtimes, package managers, tests, and databases in containers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to containerize applications, define development and production services, run tests and builds, and create hardened multi-stage images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/racastellanosm/agent-skills/docker-and-orchestration
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add racastellanosm/agent-skills --skill docker-and-orchestration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/racastellanosm/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 884 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 $0.00082 $0.00884
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00442
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00088

Measured 12d ago against content hash d613dae12c5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docker-and-orchestration 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-docker-stack.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.

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/docker-and-orchestration/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docker & Orchestration Engineering Skill

This skill guides AI agents and engineers to build, standardize, and maintain containerized software environments following the Zero Host Dependencies philosophy:

🛡️ Zero Host Dependencies Invariant:
The host machine requires only Docker (with Compose) and GNU Make.
All runtimes (Bun, Node, PHP, Go, Python), package managers, linters, test runners, and database CLIs MUST execute inside isolated, ephemeral containers.


🧭 Core Architectural Pillars

[ Makefile Orchestrator ] ➔ [ Split Compose Layer ] ➔ [ Multi-Stage Container ]
       (make <target>)         (base vs .dev.yml)        (deps ➔ test ➔ distroless)
  1. Deterministic Makefile Contract: Every development, testing, linting, and build workflow is invoked via standard Makefile targets (make dev, make test, make check, make build). Never execute raw ad-hoc host runtime commands.
  2. Split Docker Compose Topology: Clean separation between baseline service definitions (docker-compose.yml) and local developer convenience overrides (docker-compose.dev.yml) for live code-mounting and hot-reload.
  3. Multi-Stage & Hardened Container Architecture:
    • Stage 1 (Base & Deps): Caching manifests with deterministic lockfiles and --ignore-scripts.
    • Stage 2 (Test & Dev): Test runners and tooling with non-root privileges.
    • Stage 3 (Production): Distroless, scratch, or minimal alpine runtime without shell access or dev dependencies.
  4. Ephemeral Test Runners: Use DOCKER_RUN := $(COMPOSE_DEV) run --rm --no-deps to run unit tests and linters in ephemeral containers without side effects or orphaned resources.
  5. Supply Chain & Security Hardening: Non-root execution (USER 1000:1000), read-only root filesystems, and strict audit checks.

📚 Deep-Dive References (On-Demand Retrieval)

When designing or modifying Dockerfiles, Compose setups, or Makefiles, load the specific reference guides:

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 75 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A d613dae12c5a

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docker-and-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository racastellanosm/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 884 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.