cluster-upgrade SKILL.md skillA

cluster-upgrade from nitinjain999/platform-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nitinjain999/platform-skills/cluster-upgrade@git:20261011.e8166a5

Pins git:20261011.e8166a5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nitinjain999/platform-skills
Path
skills/cluster-upgrade/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261011.e8166a5, committed Oct 11, 2026
Size
6,014 bytes
Repository stars
71
License
Apache-2.0

Plan, run and roll back a Kubernetes minor-version upgrade, EKS first. Finds removed APIs in Git, rendered Helm charts and the live cluster with pluto and EKS upgrade insights, checks add-on compatibility (VPC CNI, CoreDNS, kube-proxy, Karpenter, Flux, KEDA, admission webhooks) against the target version, finds PodDisruptionBudgets that block node drains, plans the node rotation per pool, and picks the right rollback, including EKS one-step version rollback within 7 days or a blue/green cluster.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

Upgrade a cluster one minor version without an outage, and know before starting how each step is undone.

Read `references/cluster-upgrade.md` before responding. It holds the scan commands for each place removed APIs hide, the add-on checks, the drain-blocker query, node rotation per pool type, the EKS rollback rules (one minor version, 7 days, in-place upgrades only) and blue/green as the fallback.

**This skill is interactive by default.** With no arguments, ask for the cluster platform (EKS, AKS, GKE, other), the current and target versions, how nodes are provisioned (managed node groups, Karpenter, self-managed, Auto Mode, Fargate) and how workloads are delivered (Flux, Argo CD, Helm, kubectl), then run `plan`. Never run `update-cluster-version`, `update-nodegroup-version` or a drain yourself: produce the commands, the checks and the rollback, and let the user run them.

## Mode dispatch

| Mode | What it does | Mutates anything? |
|---|---|---|
| `plan` | Full phased plan: scans, add-on order, drain blockers, control plane, node rotation, rollback per phase | No |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nitinjain999/platform-skills/cluster-upgrade@sha256:75cb9ad73997a399

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.e8166a5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 11, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261011.e8166a5 latest2026-10-11 e8166a5 6,014 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6014 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

nitinjain999/platform-skills · 71 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ag5svo4gk46tmcsg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nitinjain999/platform-skills/cluster-upgrade
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/75cb9ad73997a3996ae42951981d2debaeb527eb079ab36d873e67a19fcca37e

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