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Copilot AI commented Mar 6, 2026

Adds a structured agent skill for diagnosing and resolving Kubernetes workload issues on Amazon EKS using kubectl and the AWS CLI.

Skill structure (.agents/skills/eks-kubectl-debug/)

  • SKILL.md — Core skill with a 5-phase debugging workflow (gather context → categorize → diagnose → analyze → remediate). Covers 9 issue categories with targeted kubectl commands: pod scheduling, crash loops, image pull failures, networking/DNS, node health, RBAC, resource limits, configuration errors, and EKS-specific issues.

  • references/kubectl-commands.md — Quick-reference cheatsheet of kubectl commands organized by resource type (pods, deployments, services, nodes, events, secrets, RBAC, networking, quotas).

  • references/eks-specifics.md — EKS-specific debugging guidance covering: managed nodegroups, add-ons (VPC CNI, CoreDNS, kube-proxy, EBS/EFS CSI), IRSA trust policy setup, aws-auth ConfigMap vs. EKS Access Entries, Cluster Autoscaler/Karpenter, AWS Load Balancer Controller, CloudWatch Container Insights, SSM node access, and Fargate.

  • examples/debug-crashloop.md — End-to-end worked example: CrashLoopBackOff caused by a missing env var in a newly deployed image, traced via --previous logs, patched via Kubernetes Secret, with rollback and smoke-test steps.

Bug fix: package.json

Added "passWithNoTests": true to the Jest config. The husky pre-commit hook runs npm test, which was exiting with code 1 on an empty test suite — blocking all commits to the repo.

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Create an agent skill for debugging kubernetes (eks) using kubectl


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Co-authored-by: m-howard <5014664+m-howard@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add agent skill for debugging Kubernetes with kubectl feat: add eks-kubectl-debug agent skill Mar 6, 2026
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