gke-upgrades SKILL.md skillA
gke-upgrades from gke-labs/kube-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gke-labs/kube-agents
- Path
agents/platform/skills/gke-upgrades/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 14
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 29,030 bytes
- Repository stars
- 124
- License
- Apache-2.0
Plans, executes, and validates Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster upgrades and maintenance operations for both Standard and Autopilot clusters. Produces upgrade plans, pre/post-upgrade checklists, maintenance runbooks with gcloud commands, release channel strategy, and troubleshooting guides. Handles node pool upgrade strategies (surge, blue-green), version compatibility, PDB management, and workload-specific concerns (stateful, GPU, operators). Use this skill whenever the user mentions…
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
# GKE Upgrades & Maintenance Produce clear, actionable documents — upgrade plans, runbooks, or checklists — tailored to the user's environment. Output should be specific to their cluster mode, release channel, version, and workload types rather than generic advice. Always frame guidance around the auto-upgrade model: auto-upgrade with maintenance windows and exclusions is the preferred control mechanism. > A change goes out as a pull request to the GitOps repository, never as a write from here: Kubernetes objects as YAML through `gke-manifest-generation`, cluster settings and other Google Cloud resources as Config Connector YAML through `gcp-config-connector`, opened with `submit-suggestion`. Each profile's config offers only the `gke` MCP server's read tools, and the broker refuses `kubectl` and `gcloud` writes. A control-plane upgrade reaches the cluster as a pull request changing the version floor or release-channel field (`spec.minMasterVersion` or `spec.releaseChannel.channel` on the `ContainerCluster`). A node-pool version change (an upgrade, a downgrade or rollback, or resuming a stopped upgrade) is an operation, not desired state: write the exact `gcloud container… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades@sha256:29c87f76e78d3f25The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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 14 versions of this file, between Aug 7, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-10-23 | af1b352 | 29,030 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-22 | ed90622 | 26,080 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-20 | 46651c7 | 25,979 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-19 | 895f23d | 25,964 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-16 | b3c83b3 | 23,962 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-15 | d033086 | 23,910 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-15 | 626e022 | 23,570 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-14 | 38bd7bc | 22,917 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-09 | 8abc51e | 22,835 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.9ea6a67 | 2026-09-15 | 9ea6a67 | 20,179 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.6499c9c | 2026-09-14 | 6499c9c | 19,795 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260911.d01f87e | 2026-09-11 | d01f87e | 18,767 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260807.d47bdf1 | 2026-08-07 | d47bdf1 | 17,810 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- 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
gke-labs/kube-agents · 124 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_erztfbj2xdlbqjqn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/29c87f76e78d3f2559aac5126c736537b689b57651421d1963d76a8b93ac265f
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