gke-upgrades skillA
gke-upgrades is agent-read markdown (skill) from gke-labs/kube-agents: 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 GKE .
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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. ## Context Gathering Before producing any upgrade artifact, establish: - **Cluster mode** — Standard or Autopilot? (Autopilot has no node pool management, mandatory resource requests, no SSH) - **Current and target versions** — Node version skew must be within 2 minor versions of control plane. - **Release channel** — Rapid, Regular, Stable, or Extended. - **Environment topology & Rollout Sequencing** — Single vs multi-cluster, dev/staging/prod tiers, and whether Rollout Sequencing is used. - **Workload sensitivity** — StatefulSets, databases, GPU, long-running batch need special handling. If the user provides these upfront, skip straight to the deliverable. If they're vague, fill in reasonable defaults and flag assumptions. ## Core Principles …
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How to install
mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades@git:20260915.9ea6a67mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades@sha256:41564840287003d9Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_erztfbj2xdlbqjqn)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260915.9ea6a67 latest | 2026-09-15 | 9ea6a67 | 20,179 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.6499c9c | 2026-09-14 | 6499c9c | 19,795 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.beee6a6 | 2026-09-14 | beee6a6 | 18,986 B | A | view · diff |
| 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
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20179 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
gke-labs/kube-agents · 64 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-23 · 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/41564840287003d94aedd8d87f474bc982b810b169a678a3872e7ea85331aeb3
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