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kstack

Skill pack for Claude Code that helps you monitor your K8s clusters superintelligently.
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Quickstart

Section titled “Quickstart”

To install the kstack skills globally, run this command:

Terminal window
curl -sS https://kstack.sh/install | bash

Alternatively, you can install them locally inside a specific project directory:

Terminal window
curl -sS https://kstack.sh/install | bash -s -- --local

Once installed, the skills will be available inside your agent sessions:

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❯ /kstack-cluster-status
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By default, the script will install the skills with a kstack-* namespace prefix but you can disable this with the --no-prefix flag. It will also install the skills for all of your available agents (e.g. Claude, Codex, OpenCode) but you can choose to target individual agents with the --agent flag instead (see Installation).

Kstack uses your local kubeconfig file for authentication and will respect your RBAC permissions. If it runs into permissions problems, it will let you know.

Skills

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Monitoring

  • /cluster-status — Health snapshot (pod restarts, node conditions, resource pressure)
  • /events — Recent events, ranked by severity

Troubleshooting

  • /investigate — Root-cause analysis across events, logs, and related resources
  • /logs — Shared tmux session that translates natural language into log fetches and analysis (via Kubetail)
  • /metrics — Fetch CPU, memory, and other resource metrics for pods, nodes, and workloads
  • /exec — Shared tmux shell into a pod, node, or ephemeral debug container

Audits

  • /audit-security — RBAC, pod security posture, privilege tightening
  • /audit-network — NetworkPolicy, Service, Ingress, GatewayAPI, DNS and encryption checks
  • /audit-cost — Requests vs. usage, over-provisioning, idle capacity
  • /audit-outdated — Outdated services, known CVEs, available version bumps

Miscellaneous

  • /cleanup — Remove all kstack-owned resources from the cluster (debug containers, pod clones, watcher jobs)
  • /forget — Clear kstack’s local cache and discard what it learned about your cluster(s)

Next steps

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Skills

Browse the full skill reference for monitoring, troubleshooting, and auditing your clusters. View skills.