Skills azure-kubernetes

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azure-kubernetes

Name: azure-kubernetes
Author: microsoft

v1.1.4 Content revision r2 High Risk 🔑 Env variables⚙️ External commands🌐 Network access📁 Filesystem access

Plan Production-Ready Azure Kubernetes Clusters

AKS planning requires early decisions that are difficult and costly to change. This skill structures those decisions and assesses workloads for secure, reliable migration.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

⚠️ 38 Poor

Stop for confirmation before installing.

Review the plan and obtain explicit user consent before changing files.

Install with my Agent

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Agent request

Review the Skillstore skill "azure-kubernetes" from https://skillstore.io/skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes/manifest. Verify the artifact. Stop and obtain explicit user consent before installing or changing files.

Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.

Agent-readable resources

Use these links when an AI agent, crawler, or script needs clean context instead of reading the full page.

Markdown detail GET /skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes.md Signed manifest GET /api/skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes/manifest Signed lockfile GET /api/skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes/lockfile

Test it

Using "azure-kubernetes". Plan a production AKS cluster for a regional web service with moderate traffic.

Expected outcome:

Recommendation: AKS Automatic for managed defaults and lower operational overhead.
Day-0 decisions: private API access, overlay pod addressing, controlled egress, and three-zone placement.
Operations: managed identity, policy safeguards, Prometheus monitoring, maintenance windows, and staged upgrades.

Using "azure-kubernetes". Assess these deployment manifests for AKS Automatic migration.

Expected outcome:

Assessment summary: two workloads require changes and one has an incompatible hostPath dependency.
Priority actions: remove privileged access, pin image tags, and redesign host storage usage.
Changes remain proposals until the user reviews and approves each diff.

Using "azure-kubernetes". Reduce AKS compute cost without moving critical databases to interruptible nodes.

Expected outcome:

Use historical metrics to rightsize requests before changing node capacity.
Place batch and replicated stateless workloads on Spot pools with regular-node fallback.
Keep databases on regular nodes and test autoscaler limits in a non-production environment.

Security Audit

High Risk

v5 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

Most scanner hits are Markdown formatting, Kubernetes field names, official links, or fixed examples. Two predictable /tmp exports create disclosure and clobber risks. Mandatory-authority language and missing approval gates require remediation before publication.

Files scanned

1,975

Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Confirmed security concerns (2)

High

SKILL.md:12-14 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/SKILL.md:12-18

Prompt Injection Attempt Detected

The files state "AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE - MANDATORY COMPLIANCE" and assign "You are an AKS Automatic compatibility assessment agent." This authority and role language can override host instruction priority.

Both files use mandatory-authority framing, and the nested skill adds a direct role assignment. These exact patterns match prompt-injection indicators.

High

SKILL.md:36-40 SKILL.md:136-140 references/cli-reference.md:13-33

No Explicit Approval Gate for Cloud Mutations

The workflow selects AKS tools and provides cluster creation and add-on commands, but its guardrails omit approval before cloud changes. Execution could provision resources or enable paid services.

The cited commands create clusters and enable monitoring, while the listed guardrails cover secrets and ambiguity but not execution approval. Host-level confirmation may still mitigate this.

Capability review items (2)

These are real local capabilities that may be expected for this skill, so they require review but are not counted as confirmed malicious behavior.

Medium

azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/mcp-integration.md:158

Temp directory access

kubectl get deployment,statefulset,daemonset,job,cronjob -A -o yaml > /tmp/workloads.yaml

The command exports all-namespace workload manifests to a predictable file in /tmp. Default permissions and symlink races can expose manifest data or overwrite another file.

Medium

azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/mcp-integration.md:159

Temp directory access

kubectl get pdb,storageclass -A -o yaml > /tmp/policies.yaml

The command writes cluster policy and storage metadata to a predictable /tmp path without restrictive permissions or cleanup. This creates disclosure and symlink-clobber risks.

Risk Factors

🔑 Env variables (5)

azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/common-fixes.md:76 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/common-fixes.md:83 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/constraint-spec-v1.yaml:477 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/constraint-spec-v1.yaml:488 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/SKILL.md:190

⚙️ External commands (50)

🌐 Network access (8)

azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/constraint-spec-v1.yaml:46 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/mcp-integration.md:95 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/SKILL.md:18 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/SKILL.md:119 references/azure-aks-rightsizing.md:3 references/azure-aks-rightsizing.md:50 references/azure-aks-vpa.md:39 SKILL.md:64

📁 Filesystem access (2)

azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/mcp-integration.md:158 azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness/references/mcp-integration.md:159

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APA citation

microsoft. (2026). azure-kubernetes security audit report (audit version 5) [Author version 1.1.4]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes/audits/5

BibTeX citation

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  author = {microsoft},
  title = {azure-kubernetes security audit report (audit version 5)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {5},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/microsoft-azure-kubernetes/audits/5},
  note = {Author version 1.1.4}
}

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Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: Medium

Architecture

100

Maintainability

Content

Community

Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Design a platform blueprint

Define a production AKS cluster with documented networking, identity, observability, reliability, and upgrade decisions.

Assess migration readiness

Evaluate existing manifests or a connected cluster against AKS Automatic safeguards and prioritize required changes.

Optimize cost and capacity

Review pod requests, autoscaling, Spot suitability, and node pool choices without weakening workload resilience.

Try These Prompts

Choose an AKS service model

Plan an AKS cluster for [environment] in [region]. Compare Automatic and Standard, then recommend one using safe defaults.

Design production networking

Design AKS networking for [requirements]. Cover API access, pod addressing, ingress, egress, DNS, network policy, and irreversible Day-0 decisions.

Assess Automatic readiness

Assess [manifest path or cluster] for AKS Automatic compatibility. Use read-only checks, group blockers by severity, and propose diffs without applying changes.

Build an optimization plan

Analyze [cluster or metrics source] for rightsizing, autoscaling, Spot capacity, upgrades, and observability. Quantify risks, costs, dependencies, and staged actions.

Best Practices

Provide environment, region, scale, compliance, networking, and cost requirements before requesting a final recommendation.
Review Day-0 networking and API access decisions with responsible owners before provisioning.
Start with read-only assessment and require approval before applying file or cloud changes.

Avoid

Do not apply generic CIDR ranges, VM sizes, or resource limits without validating workload and network constraints.
Do not expose secrets, tokens, connection strings, subscription identifiers, or complete ConfigMap data in reports.
Do not enable automatic VPA updates or place stateful critical workloads on Spot nodes without staged testing.