sota-kubernetes SKILL.md skillA
sota-kubernetes from martinholovsky/sota-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-kubernetes@git:20261026.808c340Pins git:20261026.808c340 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- martinholovsky/sota-skills
- Path
skills/sota-kubernetes/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261026.808c340, committed Oct 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 17, 2026
- Size
- 14,429 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
State-of-the-art Kubernetes platform security and operations (2026) for cloud-managed (EKS/GKE/AKS) and self-hosted clusters (kubeadm, k3s/k0s, Talos). Use when building, operating, hardening, or auditing the cluster PLATFORM layer: control plane and etcd, API server/kubelet, RBAC, admission control and policy-as-code, GitOps controllers, operators/CRDs/admission webhooks, Helm/Kustomize supply chain, multi-tenancy, cluster lifecycle/upgrades/CVE response, and audit logging. Trigger keywords…
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
# SOTA Kubernetes Platform Security & Operations ## Purpose Engineer and audit the Kubernetes **platform** so that a compromised workload, a hostile chart, a leaked token, or a malicious controller cannot pivot to cluster-admin, read every Secret, or take the cluster down. This skill owns the layer above the pod: control plane and etcd, API server and kubelet hardening, RBAC and ServiceAccount identity, admission control and policy-as-code, GitOps controllers, operators/CRDs and admission webhooks, Helm/Kustomize at admission, multi-tenancy boundaries, cluster lifecycle, and K8s audit logging. It does **not** re-teach pod isolation mechanics. Boundaries it defers: - **Pod `securityContext`, seccomp, AppArmor, capabilities, PSA pod-level fields** → [`sota-sandboxing`](../sota-sandboxing/SKILL.md) ([rules/03](../sota-sandboxing/rules/03-containers-microvms.md) containers & microVMs; [rules/01](../sota-sandboxing/rules/01-isolation-boundaries.md) boundaries). This skill owns the *admission-time enforcement* of those fields, not their internals. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-kubernetes@sha256:7ee50c8c654d83f0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.808c340, 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 7 versions of this file, between Jun 17, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20261026.808c340 latest | 2026-10-26 | 808c340 | 14,429 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261025.c05557f | 2026-10-25 | c05557f | 14,375 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261024.8dd2b0a | 2026-10-24 | 8dd2b0a | 14,412 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.ae1b29b | 2026-10-12 | ae1b29b | 14,171 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.d3196d1 | 2026-09-26 | d3196d1 | 13,062 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.bacf523 | 2026-06-29 | bacf523 | 12,818 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260617.c5d2c7b | 2026-06-17 | c5d2c7b | 12,968 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 (14429 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
martinholovsky/sota-skills · 26 stars · license CC-BY-4.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_x66bkosuwh5g2k5u GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-kubernetes GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7ee50c8c654d83f05a44bce2c34b551e422c84e18342249d2b644bf16186abef
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