observe-helm SKILL.md skillA
observe-helm from confighub/cub-scout is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add confighub/cub-scout/observe-helm@git:20260926.4c4b67cPins git:20260926.4c4b67c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- confighub/cub-scout
- Path
skills/observe-helm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260926.4c4b67c, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 9,856 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to observe HELM-managed resources specifically — the controller-specific observer skill for Helm. The key complication: there are three ways a resource can "be Helm" — direct `helm install/upgrade`, Flux helm-controller delivering a HelmRelease, and Argo CD rendering Helm charts as an Application source. This skill teaches the disambiguation matrix. Natural phrasing: "is this a Helm release?", "which Helm chart produced this deployment?…
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
# observe-helm The controller-specific observer skill for **Helm**. The complication: "Helm-managed" can mean three different things depending on who wrote `app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm`. This skill teaches the disambiguation matrix and the manager-string co-signal that resolves it. Verified against `pkg/agent/ownership.go` `detectHelmOwnership` and `pkg/agent/manager_strings.go` `ManagerHelm`. ## When to use - "Is this a Helm release?" - "Which Helm chart produced deploy/api?" - "Is this Helm-via-Flux, direct Helm, or Argo-as-Helm-renderer?" - "What does the `app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm` label actually mean here?" - "Trace this Helm release back to its chart + source" ## Do not load for - Flux specifically (Kustomization side, source-controller, the rest of Flux) — [`observe-flux`](../observe-flux/SKILL.md) - Argo CD Applications (even when the source is a Helm chart, Argo writes are Argo writes) — [`observe-argocd`](../observe-argocd/SKILL.md) - Generic ownership detection — [`scout-observe`](../scout-observe/SKILL.md) - Authoring Helm charts / writing values.yaml — out of cub-scout scope ## Detection signals (in `detectHelmOwnership`) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add confighub/cub-scout/observe-helm@sha256:e3f2347cb6836bb7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.4c4b67c, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dplhqd6y2di4w6fz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 127 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260926.4c4b67c latest | 2026-09-26 | 4c4b67c | 9,856 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.a5d26c6 | 2026-05-22 | a5d26c6 | 9,671 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 (9856 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
confighub/cub-scout · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dplhqd6y2di4w6fz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=confighub/cub-scout/observe-helm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e3f2347cb6836bb760601f48cf44c7bda1cdfa888079f12566031f75a608b13b
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