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gke-upgrades from gke-labs/kube-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gke-labs/kube-agents
- Path
third_party/google-skills/gke-upgrades/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 10, 2026
- Size
- 20,226 bytes
- Repository stars
- 124
- License
- Apache-2.0
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…
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 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@sha256:caa185163e1b2823The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 10, 2026.
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Source
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_xuo4hk3w3ujmtcn7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gke-labs/kube-agents/gke-upgrades GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/caa185163e1b282368f69565ff19684c36d4c4f933dc84ccc9944625918e335f
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