Helm Chart Builder — Security & Safety

Helm Chart Builder is a skill for creating, reviewing, and securing Helm charts. It scaffolds production-ready chart structures, analyzes existing charts for issues, and audits security (RBAC, network policies, pod security). It produces charts, review reports, and security audit reports.

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📂 View skill on GitHub ↗ 🚀 How to use

✨ What it does

Scaffolds charts with best-practice structure (Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates, helpers, tests).
Checks for missing labels, hardcoded values, missing resource limits, and other template anti-patterns.
Audits security: pod securityContext, RBAC, network policies, secrets handling.
Validates values.yaml for documentation coverage, type consistency, and hardcoded secrets.
Provides template patterns for standard labels, conditional resources, and security-hardened pod specs.
Generates review and security reports with severity counts and fix recommendations.

🎯 When to use it

When creating a new Helm chart for a service or workload.
When reviewing an existing Helm chart for best practices and anti-patterns.
When auditing a chart for security issues like RBAC, network policies, or pod security.
When designing or improving values.yaml files.
When adding subchart dependencies or setting up helm tests.

🚀 How to use

Trigger: /helm:create

Trigger with slash commands: /helm:create, /helm:review, /helm:security. Or describe your need in natural language, e.g., 'Create a Helm chart for this service' or 'Review my Helm chart'. Provide the chart directory or service details. Example prompts:

/helm:create mychart --workload web
/helm:review ./existing-chart
/helm:security ./existing-chart

📄 Output: Scaffolded chart files, review reports, or security audit reports.

📦 Add this skill to Claude Code

# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills

# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/engineering/helm-chart-builder/skills/helm-chart-builder .claude/skills/helm-chart-builder

Skill source: engineering/helm-chart-builder/skills/helm-chart-builder/SKILL.md

⚠️ Good to know

Requires Python 3 for the analyzer scripts; assumes Helm 3 (apiVersion v2).

❓ FAQ

What does /helm:create do?

It scaffolds a production-ready Helm chart with best-practice structure, including templates, values.yaml, and helpers, tailored to the workload type.

How does the skill handle security?

It audits pod securityContext, RBAC, network policies, and secrets, flagging issues like running as root or missing NetworkPolicy, and provides remediation steps.

Can it analyze an existing chart?

Yes, /helm:review analyzes an existing chart for issues like missing labels, hardcoded values, and template anti-patterns, and generates a report.

🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.