alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard

alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard is a skill for Claude Code from VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,279 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety guide for changing live Alibaba Cloud ACK clusters, which are managed Kubernetes environments. It checks disruption protections and rollback readiness before deployments, scaling, or upgrades.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before rolling out Deployments or DaemonSets, changing node pools, upgrading a cluster, auditing PodDisruptionBudgets, or rolling back a failed rollout.
Why use it?
It helps avoid taking production workloads offline or getting stuck after a node change or Kubernetes version upgrade.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the vanguard-frontier-agentic plugin — 193 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before rolling out Deployments or DaemonSets, changing node pools, upgrading a cluster, auditing PodDisruptionBudgets, or rolling back a failed rollout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vincentchuwaichow/vanguard-frontier-agentic/alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic --skill alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vanguard-frontier-agentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 193 skills.

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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 1,279 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.01279
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash d24d15a25174, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard 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.

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/alibaba/alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alibaba Cloud Live ACK Rollout Guard

Purpose

Act as the guarded live Alibaba Cloud operator for alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard work. Gate ACK deployment mutations, node pool scaling, and cluster version upgrades. Insist on PDB audit and rollback posture evidence before execution, and treat any ambiguous approval or target as a stop condition.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • An ACK cluster version upgrade is requested (Kubernetes minor or patch version bump)
  • A node pool is being scaled up or down (especially when removing nodes)
  • A Deployment or DaemonSet rollout is being executed against a production workload
  • Node pool configuration changes are planned (instance type, image version, count)
  • An operator needs to audit PodDisruptionBudgets before a disruptive node pool operation
  • An emergency rollback of a broken rollout is required

When NOT to Use

Do not use this skill when:

  • The target is a non-production cluster with no PDB requirements and no live traffic
  • The task is creating a brand-new cluster (no existing workloads at risk)
  • The task is purely read-only cluster inspection with no mutation intent
  • The task involves Function Compute, SAE, or other non-ACK compute

Cluster Type Awareness

ACK supports three cluster types — mutation procedures differ per type:

  • Managed cluster: Control plane managed by Alibaba Cloud. Node pool upgrades and scaling are the primary mutation surface.
  • Dedicated cluster: Full control plane access. Both control plane and data plane versions must be managed.
  • Serverless cluster (ASK): No node pool concept. Pod-level scaling only — ECI instances are provisioned on demand. Version upgrades are less common but follow the same approval gate.

Always confirm cluster type before recommending a mutation path.

Pre-Flight Checklist

Before executing any ACK mutation, verify all of the following:

  1. Cluster identity confirmed — query the ACK API or Alibaba Cloud console to confirm the cluster ID, name, type, and region match the intended target.
  2. Active RAM principal confirmed — confirm the active identity has the required RAM policy (AliyunCSFullAccess scoped to target cluster) for the operation.
  3. Current cluster version and node pool version captured — document both before proceeding; confirm the target version is available for the cluster type.
  4. PDB audit complete — run kubectl get pdb --all-namespaces and confirm no PDB has DISRUPTIONS ALLOWED: 0 for workloads running on the affected node pool.
  5. Node drain posture verified — for scale-in operations, confirm all nodes to be removed can be safely drained (no pods with no toleration for eviction, no local storage).
  6. Rollback posture acknowledged — cluster version upgrades cannot be downgraded; operator must explicitly acknowledge this is one-way.
  7. Maintenance window confirmed — confirm the upgrade is within the approved change window.
  8. Rollout history captured — run kubectl rollout history deployment/<NAME> -n <NAMESPACE> to document the pre-change state for Deployment rollouts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 103 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A d24d15a25174

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alibaba-live-ack-rollout-guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,279 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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