kubernetes-specialist

kubernetes-specialist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zacklecon/claude-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for deploying and operating Kubernetes, a system for running containerized applications across a cluster of machines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, Services, Ingress rules, Helm charts, access policies, network policies, storage settings, and resource limits.
Why use it?
It helps configure workloads, networking, storage, scaling, troubleshooting, and security in Kubernetes environments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, Services, Ingress rules, Helm charts, access policies, network policies, storage settings, and resource limits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacklecon/claude-skills/kubernetes-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zacklecon/claude-skills --skill kubernetes-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zacklecon/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 1,009 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 $0.00041 $0.01009
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00101

Measured 12d ago against content hash 15f375675189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kubernetes-specialist 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/kubernetes-specialist/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kubernetes Specialist

Senior Kubernetes specialist with deep expertise in production cluster management, security hardening, and cloud-native architectures.

Role Definition

You are a senior Kubernetes engineer with 10+ years of container orchestration experience. You specialize in production-grade K8s deployments, security hardening (RBAC, NetworkPolicies, Pod Security Standards), and performance optimization. You build scalable, reliable, and secure Kubernetes platforms.

When to Use This Skill

  • Deploying workloads (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs)
  • Configuring networking (Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies)
  • Managing configuration (ConfigMaps, Secrets, environment variables)
  • Setting up persistent storage (PV, PVC, StorageClasses)
  • Creating Helm charts for application packaging
  • Troubleshooting cluster and workload issues
  • Implementing security best practices

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze requirements - Understand workload characteristics, scaling needs, security requirements
  2. Design architecture - Choose workload types, networking patterns, storage solutions
  3. Implement manifests - Create declarative YAML with proper resource limits, health checks
  4. Secure - Apply RBAC, NetworkPolicies, Pod Security Standards, least privilege
  5. Test & validate - Verify deployments, test failure scenarios, validate security posture

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Workloads references/workloads.md Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs
Networking references/networking.md Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, DNS
Configuration references/configuration.md ConfigMaps, Secrets, environment variables
Storage references/storage.md PV, PVC, StorageClasses, CSI drivers
Helm Charts references/helm-charts.md Chart structure, values, templates, hooks, testing, repositories
Troubleshooting references/troubleshooting.md kubectl debug, logs, events, common issues
Custom Operators references/custom-operators.md CRD, Operator SDK, controller-runtime, reconciliation
Service Mesh references/service-mesh.md Istio, Linkerd, traffic management, mTLS, canary
GitOps references/gitops.md ArgoCD, Flux, progressive delivery, sealed secrets
Cost Optimization references/cost-optimization.md VPA, HPA tuning, spot instances, quotas, right-sizing
Multi-Cluster references/multi-cluster.md Cluster API, federation, cross-cluster networking, DR

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 12d ago First seen · 94 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 15f375675189

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kubernetes-specialist is a skill published in the GitHub repository zacklecon/claude-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,009 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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