kubernetes
Pass
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on May 8, 2026
Risk Level: SAFECOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONPROMPT_INJECTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides detailed instructions for multiple agents to execute a wide variety of administrative shell commands using powerful CLI tools including
kubectl,oc,helm,aws,az,gcloud,rosa, andgit. These commands allow the swarm to manage cluster lifecycles, modify resource state, and perform infrastructure-level changes. - [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: The agents are instructed to handle highly sensitive data, including
KUBECONFIGpaths and cloud provider credentials (e.g.,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET). While used for legitimate management purposes, the skill's orchestration of secret rotation and retrieval across services like HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and Azure Key Vault constitutes a sensitive data handling surface. - [PROMPT_INJECTION]: The skill is susceptible to Indirect Prompt Injection (Category 8) due to its operational model.
- Ingestion points: The
observability(Pulse) andartifacts(Cache) agents ingest untrusted external data from pod logs viakubectl logs, image vulnerability scan findings viatrivy/grype, and external metrics via Prometheus/Loki APIs. This content could contain malicious instructions meant to override agent logic. - Capability inventory: The agents possess significant capabilities, including shell execution, Kubernetes resource management, Git repository manipulation (commit/push/PR), and the ability to trigger external alerts via Slack and PagerDuty.
- Boundary markers: Although the skill defines clear agent roles and communication protocols (using
@mentionsandWORKING.md), there are no explicit instructions or delimiters used to warn the LLM to ignore potential instructions embedded within the ingested log or scan data. - Sanitization: The instructions do not specify any sanitization or validation steps for the content of logs or external data before it is incorporated into the agent's context for triage or investigation.
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