k8s-workload-troubleshooting SKILL.md skillA
k8s-workload-troubleshooting from k8s-servant/k8s-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-workload-troubleshooting@git:20261031.a5d0ab1Pins git:20261031.a5d0ab1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k8s-servant/k8s-skills
- Path
skills/k8s-workload-troubleshooting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261031.a5d0ab1, committed Oct 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 23, 2026
- Size
- 12,561 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a pod or workload is unhealthy in Kubernetes: pods stuck in Pending, CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff or ErrImagePull, containers OOMKilled (exit code 137), failing liveness, readiness or startup probes, pods Running but not Ready, a Deployment rollout that does not progress (ProgressDeadlineExceeded), or a Job or CronJob that fails. Investigates with kubectl get, describe, logs and events, and proposes fixes. Reads first and asks before changing anything.
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
# Kubernetes workload troubleshooting Find out why a pod, Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job or CronJob is unhealthy, and propose a fix. **Read first, ask before changing.** Run the investigation commands freely. Run a command under an "Ask first" line only after the user approves that exact command; if your credentials do not allow it, give it to the user to run. Never run a "Proposed fix"; hand it to the user. The commands use placeholders: `my-namespace`, `my-app` (the workload) and `my-pod` (one of its pods). Replace them with the real names. Never read Secrets. If logs or output contain passwords, tokens or keys, do not repeat them. ## When to use - A pod is `Pending`, `ContainerCreating`, `ErrImagePull`, `ImagePullBackOff`, `CrashLoopBackOff`, `OOMKilled`, `Error`, or `Running` but not ready (`0/1`). - A container keeps restarting, or a probe keeps failing (`Unhealthy` events). - A rollout never finishes: `kubectl rollout status` waits or reports that the Deployment "exceeded its progress deadline". - A Job fails or never completes, or a CronJob's runs fail. Hand-offs, by skill name. When the evidence points elsewhere, continue with that skill; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-workload-troubleshooting@sha256:979213c34ead1566The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.a5d0ab1, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261031.a5d0ab1 latest | 2026-10-31 | a5d0ab1 | 12,561 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.b852b9e | 2026-10-25 | b852b9e | 12,413 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.55dfb7a | 2026-10-24 | 55dfb7a | 12,229 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.1681ffe | 2026-10-23 | 1681ffe | 11,891 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.3af884d | 2026-10-23 | 3af884d | 11,089 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12561 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
k8s-servant/k8s-skills · 35 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ase3bdhmtdd6odsh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-workload-troubleshooting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/979213c34ead15663f5e79ec4696b5f47ced346ffd955eea25ae21e3c3430986
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