linkerd-patterns SKILL.md skillA
linkerd-patterns from wshobson/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wshobson/agents/linkerd-patterns@git:20261004.46891e7Pins git:20261004.46891e7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Path
plugins/cloud-infrastructure/skills/linkerd-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261004.46891e7, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 16, 2025
- Size
- 8,084 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42,320
- License
- MIT
Implement Linkerd service mesh patterns for lightweight, security-focused service mesh deployments. Use when setting up Linkerd, configuring traffic policies, or implementing zero-trust networking with minimal overhead.
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
# Linkerd Patterns
Production patterns for Linkerd service mesh - the lightweight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes.
## When to Use This Skill
- Setting up a lightweight service mesh
- Implementing automatic mTLS
- Configuring traffic splits for canary deployments
- Setting up service profiles for per-route metrics
- Implementing retries and timeouts
- Multi-cluster service mesh
## Core Concepts
### 1. Linkerd Architecture
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Control Plane │
│ ┌─────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ │
│ │ destiny │ │ identity │ │ proxy-inject │ │
│ └─────────┘ └──────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Data Plane │
│ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │
│ │proxy│────│proxy│────│proxy│ │
│ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ ┌──┴──┐ ┌──┴──┐ ┌──┴──┐ │
│ │ app │ │ app │ │ app │ │
│ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ │
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/linkerd-patterns@sha256:a025d94e1538a54bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.46891e7, 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 4 versions of this file, between Dec 16, 2025 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 97 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
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| git:20261004.46891e7 latest | 2026-10-04 | 46891e7 | 8,084 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260307.47a5dbc | 2026-03-07 | 47a5dbc | 7,918 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260119.5684887 | 2026-01-19 | 5684887 | 8,141 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20251216.01d93fc | 2025-12-16 | 01d93fc | 8,001 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hgv63d2mvw2ydwp7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wshobson/agents/linkerd-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a025d94e1538a54b443103d9e1e68de301d7d36dd2fd81883668bbc8de62a23f
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