gke-load-bearing-change SKILL.md skillA

gke-load-bearing-change from gke-labs/kube-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-load-bearing-change@git:20261030.9eba8c7

Pins git:20261030.9eba8c7 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/cluster/persona/skills/gke-load-bearing-change/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20261030.9eba8c7, committed Oct 30, 2026
Size
25,391 bytes
Repository stars
124
License
Apache-2.0

Establish whether an out-of-band change to a live object is load-bearing — whether the state the manifests declare would still run if the change were undone — before recommending a revert. Read-only. For drift triage, emergency hotfixes found in a cluster, and any decision between a declared state and a live one.

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 Load-Bearing Change

Use this skill when something changed a live object outside git and you have to say whether the declared state or the live state should win. It answers one question, and that question decides the recommendation: **would the state git declares still run if you put it back?** A change that is the only reason a workload is up is load-bearing, and proposing to revert it proposes an outage. A change that nothing depends on is not, and proposing to codify it writes somebody's accident into git.

The skill is read-only: it reads history, events, the live object and whatever depends on it, and proposes nothing beyond naming what it found.

It does not try to learn why the change was made. An operator unblocking a deploy at speed leaves no annotation and no ticket, so the motive is usually unknowable, and guessing at one is how a report ends up asserting something it cannot support. Load-bearing is a property of the cluster, not of anybody's intent, and it is observable.

## When to run it

- A drift request asks you to choose between reverting an out-of-band change and codifying it.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-load-bearing-change@sha256:28005293fa877828

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.9eba8c7, 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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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (25391 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
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source

GitHub

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_vpds2grc6ozty6c2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-load-bearing-change
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28005293fa877828c5be1341e7b050b850700cb4a756d343db5613e5a3fff502

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