k8s-manifest-validation

k8s-manifest-validation is a skill for Claude Code from sigistry/marketplace. It costs 84 tokens per session (783 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A checklist for finding Kubernetes configuration mistakes before deployment. Kubernetes is a system that runs containers, and its configuration files can be accepted even when the resulting application never becomes ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Kubernetes or Helm configuration for deployments, containers, resource settings, health probes, and security settings before releasing them.
Why use it?
It catches problems such as missing resource limits, incorrect value types, or unsuitable health checks before they cause unavailable or unstable services. Applying a file successfully does not prove the service will work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ci-incident-medic plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review Kubernetes or Helm configuration for deployments, containers, resource settings, health probes, and security settings before releasing them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sigistry/marketplace/k8s-manifest-validation
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 sigistry/marketplace --skill k8s-manifest-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sigistry/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ci-incident-medic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 783 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00084 $0.00783
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00392
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00078

Measured 11d ago against content hash b3fc653f55ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

k8s-manifest-validation scanned grade B 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

`kubectl apply` validates schema, not intent. A manifest can apply cleanly and then: never pass readiness, get OOMKilled, run as root against policy, or route traffic to a dead Pod. Static pre-flight catches these before
plugins/ci-incident-medic/skills/k8s-manifest-validation/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes Manifest Validation

Purpose

A consistent pre-deploy checklist for the Kubernetes manifest mistakes that pass kubectl apply but never become Ready, silent failures. This is K8s-specific domain knowledge about how manifests fail quietly, not generic YAML linting.

The silent-failure principle

kubectl apply validates schema, not intent. A manifest can apply cleanly and then: never pass readiness, get OOMKilled, run as root against policy, or route traffic to a dead Pod. Static pre-flight catches these before they reach the cluster.

Validation checklist (assign PASS / WARN / FAIL)

Check FAIL condition Why it fails silently
Type / quoting containerPort: "8080" (string), "true" bool, int env value schema accepts strings; port never binds / value mis-typed
Resource requests & limits missing on a container BestEffort QoS → first evicted; can starve the node
Readiness probe missing traffic routed before the app can serve → 502s
Liveness probe missing (WARN) or too aggressive (FAIL) wedged Pod never restarts; or healthy Pod killed in a loop
Startup probe missing on slow-starting app liveness kills it before it finishes booting
securityContext runAsNonRoot unset, caps not dropped, writable rootfs runs as root; policy admission may reject later
Image tag :latest or untagged non-reproducible; rollout pulls a different image silently
Replicas / PDB single replica, no PodDisruptionBudget node drain / rollout causes full downtime
Hardcoded secrets literal token/password in env or ConfigMap secret committed to git; ConfigMaps aren't secret
Namespace relies on implicit default deploys to the wrong place; RBAC/quota surprises

Type-quoting quick rules

  • containerPort, port, targetPort (numeric), replicasintegers, unquoted.
  • Boolean fields (runAsNonRoot, readOnlyRootFilesystem) → bare true/false, never "true".
  • Env value: is always a string: wrap numbers/bools in quotes: value: "5432".
  • YAML gotcha: unquoted on, off, yes, no, and 1.20 get coerced, quote version strings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. 11d ago First seen · 45 lines · 84 tokens per session scan B b3fc653f55ab

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k8s-manifest-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository sigistry/marketplace (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 783 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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