gke-basics

gke-basics is a skill for Claude Code from skillmds/skillmd. It costs 4 tokens per session (1,083 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A beginner guide to Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud’s managed service for running Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes is software for deploying and managing groups of containers, including their machines, networking, and storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the basics of creating GKE clusters, managing node pools, deploying workloads, and configuring networking and storage.
Why use it?
It gives a structured starting point for common GKE tasks and routes different needs to more specific guidance. This reduces the risk of using the wrong setup path for a cluster or workload.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cloud-devops plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn the basics of creating GKE clusters, managing node pools, deploying workloads, and configuring networking and storage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skillmds/skillmd/gke-basics
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 skillmds/skillmd --skill gke-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-devops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,083 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 $0.00004 $0.01083
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00433
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00108

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8562ee2b6bb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-23, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gke-basics 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.

plugins/cloud-devops/skills/gke-basics/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trigger: Use when working with Google Kubernetes Engine basics — cluster setup, node pools, workloads, networking, and storage fundamentals.

GKE Basics

Managed Kubernetes platform on Google Cloud. Defaults to Autopilot mode.

Quick Start

gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com --quiet
gcloud container clusters create-auto my-cluster --region=us-central1 --quiet
gcloud container clusters get-credentials my-cluster --region=us-central1 --quiet

GKE Skill Routing Table

Load the single, most specific GKE sub-skill below matching your workload requirements. Do not load multiple GKE skills unless explicitly required.

Scenario Trigger Keywords Target Skill
Golden Path Defaults production defaults, gke-golden-path
: : golden path : :
Cluster Creation create cluster, gke-cluster-creation
: : provision GKE : :
Networking & Ingress private cluster, VPC, gke-networking,
: : Gateway API, Ingress, : gke-service-networking :
: : DNS : :
Security & IAM Workload Identity, gke-platform-security,
: : Secret Manager, RBAC, : gke-workload-security :
: : hardening : :
Autoscaling HPA, VPA, Cluster gke-workload-scaling
: : Autoscaler, NAP : :
Compute Classes ComputeClass, Spot gke-compute-classes
: : fallback, GPU/TPU nodes : :
Cost Analysis BigQuery billing gke-cost-analysis
: : exports, budgets, live : :
: : monitoring : :
Cost Optimization Spot VMs, rightsizing, gke-cost-optimization
: : quotas : :
AI/ML Workloads LLM, GPU/TPU inference, gke-inference
: : serving, vLLM : :
GPU/TPU Disruption GPU termination, TPU gke-ai-troubleshooting-
: : shutdown, host : handle-disruption-gpu-tpu :
: : maintenance : :
Cluster Upgrades upgrade, maintenance gke-upgrades
: : window, release channel : :
Observability monitoring, logging, gke-observability
: : Prometheus, dashboards : :
Multi-tenancy namespace isolation, gke-multitenancy
: : resource quota, : :
: : LimitRange : :
Batch & HPC batch, HPC, Kueue, gke-batch-hpc
: : JobSet, parallel jobs : :
App Onboarding containerize, gke-app-onboarding
: : Dockerfile, deploy app, : :
: : onboard : :
Backup & DR backup plan, restore, gke-backup-dr
: : disaster recovery, CMEK : :
Storage & PVC SSD, PV, PVC, gke-storage
: : StorageClass, GCS FUSE : :
Reliability PDB, health probe, gke-reliability
: : liveness, readiness : :
Productionization production readiness, gke-productionize
: : productionize, : :
: : readiness scoring, : :
: : audit cluster : :
Manifest Generation generate YAML, manifest gke-manifest-generation
: : template, : :
: : securityContext probes, : :
: : resource limits : :

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 8562ee2b6bb2

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gke-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository skillmds/skillmd (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 1,083 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-19.