linkerd-patterns

linkerd-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,888 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes that helps manage communication between application services. It covers encrypted connections, traffic policies, retries, timeouts, and traffic splitting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up Linkerd, enable automatic mutual TLS, split traffic during canary releases, add service profiles and route metrics, configure retries and timeouts, and connect clusters.
Why use it?
It helps secure and control service-to-service communication without adding those concerns separately to every application. It is intended for deployments that want service-mesh features with limited overhead.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cloud-infrastructure plugin — 8 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up Linkerd, enable automatic mutual TLS, split traffic during canary releases, add service profiles and route metrics, configure retries and timeouts, and connect clusters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/linkerd-patterns
About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 41,247 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

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 wshobson/agents --skill linkerd-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-infrastructure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,888 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
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Supply Chain · line 58
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 58
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
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 $0.00041 $0.01888
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00755
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00189

Measured 16d ago against content hash a025d94e1538, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linkerd-patterns 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 16d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/cloud-infrastructure/skills/linkerd-patterns/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linkerd Patterns

Production patterns for Linkerd service mesh - the lightweight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes.

When to Use This Skill

  • Setting up a lightweight service mesh
  • Implementing automatic mTLS
  • Configuring traffic splits for canary deployments
  • Setting up service profiles for per-route metrics
  • Implementing retries and timeouts
  • Multi-cluster service mesh

Core Concepts

1. Linkerd Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                Control Plane                 │
│  ┌─────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ │
│  │ destiny │ │ identity │ │ proxy-inject │ │
│  └─────────┘ └──────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                      │
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Data Plane                   │
│  ┌─────┐    ┌─────┐    ┌─────┐             │
│  │proxy│────│proxy│────│proxy│             │
│  └─────┘    └─────┘    └─────┘             │
│     │           │           │               │
│  ┌──┴──┐    ┌──┴──┐    ┌──┴──┐            │
│  │ app │    │ app │    │ app │            │
│  └─────┘    └─────┘    └─────┘            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2. Key Resources

Resource Purpose
ServiceProfile Per-route metrics, retries, timeouts
TrafficSplit Canary deployments, A/B testing
Server Define server-side policies
ServerAuthorization Access control policies

Templates

Template 1: Mesh Installation

Use a CLI version compatible with the target cluster. The example uses Homebrew; for other systems, follow the official installation guide.

# Install the CLI with Homebrew
brew install linkerd
linkerd version

# Validate cluster
linkerd check --pre

# Install CRDs
linkerd install --crds | kubectl apply -f -

# Install control plane
linkerd install | kubectl apply -f -

# Verify installation
linkerd check

# Install viz extension (optional)
linkerd viz install | kubectl apply -f -

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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. 16d ago Changed · +4 lines scan B → A a025d94e1538
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 306 lines · 41 tokens per session scan B 40a8e4835699

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linkerd-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (41,247 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,888 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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