k8s-helm

k8s-helm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yindia/rootcause. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of procedures for managing Helm, a tool that installs and updates applications packaged for Kubernetes. It covers finding charts, checking releases, applying changes, rolling back, and removing them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up repositories, selecting chart versions, installing or upgrading releases, planning rollbacks, and validating cleanup.
Why use it?
It helps reduce mistakes when changing Kubernetes applications by requiring a preview before changes and checking the result afterward.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yindia/rootcause/k8s-helm
Any agent
npx skills add yindia/rootcause --skill k8s-helm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yindia/rootcause

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,733 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.01733
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00866
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00173

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2df6e925a38e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

k8s-helm 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 5d 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/claude/k8s-helm/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: k8s-helm

Helm lifecycle operations for Kubernetes using RootCause MCP tool names only.

This skill is evidence-first and safety-first. helm.diff_release is mandatory before any mutating action.

Purpose

Use this skill for:

  • repository setup,
  • chart discovery and version selection,
  • release install and upgrade,
  • rollback planning and recovery,
  • uninstall and cleanup validation,
  • template apply/uninstall workflows.

Strict Tooling Contract

Use only these Helm tool names:

  • helm.repo_add
  • helm.repo_list
  • helm.repo_update
  • helm.list_charts
  • helm.get_chart
  • helm.search_charts
  • helm.list
  • helm.status
  • helm.diff_release
  • helm.rollback_advisor
  • helm.install
  • helm.upgrade
  • helm.uninstall
  • helm.template_apply
  • helm.template_uninstall

Use these Kubernetes inspection tools when validating releases:

  • k8s.describe
  • k8s.list
  • k8s.events
  • k8s.events_timeline
  • k8s.get

Never emit kubectl-alias tool names. Never emit non-RootCause Helm naming variants.

Triggers

Enable when user intent includes:

  • install chart,
  • upgrade release,
  • rollback failed deployment,
  • resolve Helm release errors,
  • inspect chart versions,
  • remove a release,
  • debug values not applying.

Common terms:

  • helm, chart, release, values, repository,
  • pending-install, pending-upgrade, failed,
  • cannot re-use a name,
  • immutable selector,
  • another operation in progress.

Priority Rules

  1. State first, mutation later.
  • Start with helm.list or helm.status.
  1. Diff before every mutating operation.
  • Run helm.diff_release before:
    • helm.install
    • helm.upgrade
    • helm.uninstall
    • helm.template_apply
    • helm.template_uninstall
  1. Recovery planning before rollback.
  • Run helm.rollback_advisor for safer target selection.
  1. Confirmation requirements are mandatory.
  • Use confirm=true for tools that require it.
  1. Post-action verification is mandatory.
  • Validate with helm.status and k8s.* evidence tools.

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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. 5d ago First seen · 261 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2df6e925a38e

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k8s-helm is a skill published in the GitHub repository yindia/rootcause (42 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,733 tokens. 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.