aks-known-issues SKILL.md skillA

aks-known-issues from azure/aks-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add azure/aks-skills/aks-known-issues@v0.1.0

Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
azure/aks-skills
Path
skills/aks-known-issues/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v0.1.0, committed Aug 24, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 13, 2026
Size
11,483 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Match exact AKS operation-failure signatures to documented causes and fixes. WHEN: an AKS create, scale, upgrade, node-image, or image-pull failure names VMCannotFitEphemeralOSDisk, LinkedAuthorizationFailed, NodePoolMcVersionIncompatible, 'NodeImageVersion is not accepted', SkuNotAvailable, ZonalAllocationFailed, OverconstrainedAllocationRequest, or an AKS vmssCSE/CSE nested signature: VMExtensionError_OutboundConnFail (exit 50), VMExtensionError_K8SAPIServerConnFail (exit 51), or…

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

# AKS Known Issues

Turn a specific AKS **error code or message** into a documented diagnosis: the cause, the Microsoft-documented fix or workaround, and the reference that proves it. This skill is a deterministic string→diagnosis matcher, not an open-ended investigation — it fires when the failure already names itself (an error code, an extension exit code, a rejected value) and you want the known answer fast.

## Operating rules

**Read-only by default.** Do not upgrade, reimage, delete, reconcile, scale, or modify role assignments on the cluster or its Azure resources unless the user explicitly asks. Match the error, explain the cause, cite the documented fix — then apply it only on explicit approval.

**Match on the signature, not the vibe.** Only claim a known issue when the actual error string matches the entry (code, message, and the operation that produced it). Compare error codes as exact values, not substrings: `ZonalAllocationFailed` is not the `AllocationFailed` code. If the symptom is generic and no specific error code is present, this is not the right skill — route to `aks-troubleshooting`.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add azure/aks-skills/aks-known-issues@sha256:5ea1438388f941ce

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Aug 24, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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v0.1.0 latest2026-08-24 e076860 11,483 BA view · diff
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v0.1.02026-08-20 2142eb9 12,499 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-08-13 a4c5022 12,714 BA view · diff
v0.1.02026-08-13 76f08ac 12,327 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 (11483 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

azure/aks-skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zckhyjztvoyb6sq2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=azure/aks-skills/aks-known-issues
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5ea1438388f941ce94662ec730611996ec60a356a17dddd781034d6d9c792c0f

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