# Kubernetes agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

> Ready-made Kubernetes playbooks for AI agents: triage Kubernetes cluster health with AI, audit Helm releases and deployed workloads in a namespace, safe change rollout for Kubernetes with AI. Free SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, or one click in RevampKey.

## Skills

- [Kubernetes MCP Server essentials](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server/skills/essentials.md): Teaches an AI agent to confirm the cluster context and namespace, pick read tools before write tools, and ask for explicit approval before any change to a live cluster.
- [Triage Kubernetes cluster health with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server/skills/cluster-health-triage.md): Sweeps a cluster or namespace for unhealthy pods, crash loops, pending workloads, failed rollouts and node problems, and ranks them by severity. It is read-only and changes nothing.
- [Audit Helm releases and deployed workloads in a namespace](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server/skills/release-and-helm-audit.md): Inventories Helm releases in a namespace, compares them with what is running, and flags failed upgrades, drift and stale versions for review. It is read-only and makes no changes.
- [Safe change rollout for Kubernetes with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server/skills/safe-change-rollout.md): Plans one scoped change to a workload, such as a scale, patch, manifest apply or rollout, with a snapshot and a rollback path. It asks for your explicit approval before every write.
- [Troubleshoot a failing Kubernetes workload with AI](https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server/skills/workload-troubleshooting.md): Diagnoses one crashing, pending or unready pod, deployment or job, from state and events through logs, and proposes a fix. It never applies a change without your approval.

## Install

- RevampKey: connect Kubernetes at https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server; the skills come with it.
- Any Agent Skills tool, into the current project:

```bash
for s in essentials cluster-health-triage release-and-helm-audit safe-change-rollout workload-troubleshooting; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/kubernetes-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done
```

### What is a Kubernetes agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Kubernetes skill describes one job, which Kubernetes tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

### Do the Kubernetes skills change anything on their own?

2 of the 5 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Kubernetes.

### Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Kubernetes; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

### Do I need the Kubernetes MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Kubernetes MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Kubernetes MCP setup guide covers every client.

MCP setup guide: https://revampkey.com/marketplace/kubernetes-mcp-server.md