scout-attribute SKILL.md skillA

scout-attribute from confighub/cub-scout is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add confighub/cub-scout/scout-attribute@git:20260930.40a8de2

Pins git:20260930.40a8de2 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/scout-attribute/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260930.40a8de2, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 24, 2026
Size
16,292 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
MIT

Use when the user wants manager evidence for a field value on a running Kubernetes resource — which recognized controller or interactive manager is recorded for a path, which git file or ConfigHub Link supplies desired state, or whether resource-level managedFields contains an interactive manager. Natural phrasing: "why is replicas: 1 in prod?", "does this resource show a kubectl manager?", "is Argo still reconciling or is an interactive manager recorded?…

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

# scout-attribute

The Attribute layer of cub-scout (#435). Reads `metadata.managedFields` + label-based owner detection + Argo/Flux tracer + ConfigHub Link bindings. It reports recognized manager evidence for a field path when decodable `FieldsV1` is available, otherwise a resource-level manager summary, alongside the field's desired-state source where available. These manager classifications do not form a time-ordered mutation history.

## When to use

Explicit phrasings:

- "Why is `replicas: 1` in prod when ConfigHub says `replicas: 3`?"
- "Did someone `kubectl edit` this?" / "is this manual or controller drift?"
- "Is Argo still reconciling, or has the GitOps loop been bypassed?"
- "What git commit set this image tag?" / "trace this field back to its source"
- "Which upstream unit feeds the `image` field on this Deployment?"
- "Show me the provenance of this resource" / "git-blame this Deployment"
- "Is this `controller-drift` or `manual-edit`?"
- "What does the `cause` / `managerHint` field mean in this JSON?"

Implicit intents:

- The user is *already looking at a divergence* from [`scout-compare`](../scout-compare/SKILL.md) and wants to know who caused it
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add confighub/cub-scout/scout-attribute@sha256:631e1bed42b140de

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.40a8de2, 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 Jun 24, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 25 days.

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git:20260927.62825342026-09-27 6282534 13,640 BA view · diff
git:20260917.c806e112026-09-17 c806e11 13,427 BA view · diff
git:20260624.e6ab5782026-06-24 e6ab578 13,305 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16292 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

GitHub

confighub/cub-scout · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ps6aa7vavusqqhsu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=confighub/cub-scout/scout-attribute
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/631e1bed42b140de6343a6564dff29ca3b4a8fa3dc9a0941e6d7da9f29b62419

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