skill-examples-bootstrap

Execution mode: follow references/execution-modes.md. This Skill grants no automatic tool permission. Standalone use inspects first, then submits one missing or changed playground object at a time to the host permission system; an external overlay may stop it before Bash.

For an existing example Unit, re-read its head and hash before the write and do not claim atomic reviewed-state binding when the stock convenience command does not accept those values as preconditions.

Prepares and explains an idempotent ConfigHub playground so users can exercise the other skills against a well-formed example after the host permits each requested creation step.

When to use

• User asks for a playground / example / sandbox to try ConfigHub against.
• User is new and needs something concrete to tinker with.
• skill-examples Space is missing or has been damaged and the user wants it back.
• User says "reset" or "refresh" the examples.

Do not load for

• Creating real app Spaces (use confighub-core to prepare the governed Space proposal).
• Setting up Triggers / policy (use triggers-and-applygates).
• Importing existing Helm or Kustomize configs (use import).

What gets created

Space: skill-examples

Units in that Space:

• hello-ns — v1/Namespace named hello, with pod-security labels applied via set-pod-security-defaults.
• hello-app — apps/v1/Deployment + v1/Service bundle for a placeholder app listening on port 8080.
• hello-statefulset — apps/v1/StatefulSet + headless v1/Service for a PostgreSQL-like stateful workload with volumeClaimTemplates.
• hello-daemonset — apps/v1/DaemonSet for a node-exporter-style monitoring agent.
• hello-job — batch/v1/Job for a one-shot database migration.
• hello-cronjob — batch/v1/CronJob for a scheduled nightly backup.
• hello-ingress — networking.k8s.io/v1/Ingress with TLS termination.
• hello-netpol — networking.k8s.io/v1/NetworkPolicy pair: default-deny + explicit allow.
• hello-rbac — v1/ServiceAccount + rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1/Role + RoleBinding bundle.
• hello-hpa — autoscaling/v2/HorizontalPodAutoscaler targeting hello-app.
• hello-pdb — policy/v1/PodDisruptionBudget protecting hello-app.

All workload Units get the defaults chain: set-container-resources-defaults, set-container-probe-defaults, set-pod-container-security-context-defaults, ensure-namespaces.

Every supported Unit-data mutation uses a short safe --change-desc summary from references/execution-modes.md. Never interpolate the verbatim prompt into shell text; the shared transcript and command result retain fuller context.

Preflight gates

1. cub auth status succeeds — it contacts the server's /me endpoint to confirm the token is still valid (not just local login state). If it fails, ask the user to run cub auth login (an interactive browser sign-in an agent cannot complete).
2. Confirm with the user: is this a first-time bootstrap, or a refresh? A refresh preserves the Space but re-runs the recipe against the existing Units.

The loop

1. Detect existing state

cub space get skill-examples

If the Space exists, inspect Units in a separate read:

cub unit list --space skill-examples

Branch:

• Space missing → go to step 2 (full bootstrap).
• Space present, Units missing → skip space create, go to step 3.
• Space + Units present → compare current state with the fixture contract and propose only missing/different defaults; do not mutate merely to test idempotence.

2. Create the Space

cub space create skill-examples

cub space create does not accept --change-desc; Spaces aren't versioned data.

3. Upload example Units

Example YAML files are stored in skills/skill-examples-bootstrap/examples/. Each file maps to one Unit:

Upload one missing or changed Unit at a time. Resolve <slug> to one literal name from the table; submit and verify each call before moving to the next:

cub unit create --space skill-examples <slug> \
  skills/skill-examples-bootstrap/examples/<slug>.yaml \
  --merge-external-source confighub-skills/skills/skill-examples-bootstrap/examples/<slug>.yaml \
  --change-desc 'Seed reviewed Unit in skill examples playground'

--merge-external-source records each file as the Unit's external source, so re-running this against an already-seeded Space merges the new file content rather than replacing the Unit — anything you tinkered with in ConfigHub survives, unless the file changed the same path.

cub variant upload --granularity per-file would produce the same file-stem slugs in one command and merge the same way on re-upload. It is the right tool for a real base Space, and the wrong one here: it requires --component / --variant and stamps those labels, which would make the playground look like a variant of a component it isn't. Use it when you graduate an example into a real component; keep the loop for the playground.

4. Apply the defaults chain

Each function call is hermetic and idempotent, so re-running on an already-seeded Space produces no-op revisions (and no noise in the history if nothing changes).

On workload Units (hello-app, hello-statefulset, hello-daemonset, hello-job, hello-cronjob), run one function for one Unit per call. Resolve <workload-slug> and <defaults-function> to literal values from those lists, then verify before the next call:

cub function set --space skill-examples --unit <workload-slug> \
  --change-desc 'Apply reviewed workload defaults in skill examples' \
  -- <defaults-function>

On hello-ns:

cub function set --space skill-examples --unit hello-ns \
  --change-desc 'Apply pod security labels to hello namespace' \
  -- set-pod-security-defaults

On non-workload Units that have namespaced resources (hello-ingress, hello-netpol, hello-rbac, hello-hpa, hello-pdb), resolve <namespaced-slug> and submit one call at a time:

cub function set --space skill-examples --unit <namespaced-slug> \
  --change-desc 'Apply namespace defaults in skill examples' \
  -- ensure-namespaces

On hello-rbac, also disable auto-mounted service account tokens:

cub function set --space skill-examples --unit hello-rbac \
  --change-desc 'Disable token automount on hello rbac ServiceAccount' \
  -- set-automount-service-account-token-false

5. Show the user what to do next

Point them at the GUI and the other skills:

• cub unit list --space skill-examples — overview of all seeded Units.
• cub unit open hello-app --space skill-examples --print-url — inspect the final literal YAML.
• cub unit open hello-app --space skill-examples --revisions --print-url — see the provenance chain.
• Suggest a concrete next move: "Try cub-mutate to bump the image tag", "Try cub-query to find all Deployments in skill-examples", "Set up triggers-and-applygates against skill-examples to see an ApplyGate in action", "Use kubernetes-resources to create a new resource — it'll pull from these examples."

Tool boundary

• Host permission: read-only cub evidence in this skill's declared capability subset; the pack preapproves no Bash call.
• Standalone mutation steps: Space/Unit create/update and function mutations each use one exact host-permission call after the idempotent read/compare step.
• Not allowed: cub * delete * (users who want to clean up should do it explicitly), any mutating kubectl, any helm/kustomize.

Stop conditions

• User is not authenticated (cub auth status fails). Tell them to run cub auth login.
• User lacks permission to create Spaces in the current organization.

Verify chain

1. cub space get skill-examples — Space exists.
2. cub unit list --space skill-examples — all 11 Units present.
3. cub unit get hello-app --space skill-examples -o yaml — YAML contains resources.requests, all three probes, securityContext, and namespace: confighubplaceholder.
4. cub unit get hello-statefulset --space skill-examples -o yaml — StatefulSet has volumeClaimTemplates and headless Service has clusterIP: None.
5. cub revision list hello-app --space skill-examples — revision history includes the defaults functions with user-prompt-bearing change descriptions.

Evidence

• cub space open skill-examples --print-url — Space overview.
• cub unit open hello-app --space skill-examples --print-url — literal Unit YAML.
• cub unit open hello-app --space skill-examples --revisions --print-url — provenance chain.

References

• references/cub-cli.md — CLI discipline + Read/Write permission sets.
• references/yaml-patterns.md — what makes the scaffolded YAML "good" literal YAML.
• references/functions-catalog.md — defaults functions used.
• Companion skill: confighub-core — the doctrine this recipe demonstrates.