You built your Kubernetes skill in Lesson 0 and refined it through Lessons 1-14. Now validate that it actually transfers to new projects.
A skill that only works for your FastAPI agent isn't a skill—it's a template. True skills guide decisions across different application types.
Pick one application type you haven't deployed in this chapter:
The application type doesn't matter. What matters: it's different enough from your FastAPI agent that you can't copy manifests from Lesson 14.
Using only your skill (not Lesson 14's code), answer these questions for your chosen application:
1. Resource Planning
2. Health Checking
3. Configuration
4. Labels
5. Deployment Strategy
Your skill should guide you through these decisions without prescribing specific answers.
After working through your skill on a different application:
Document 2-3 specific gaps you discovered.
Open your skill at .claude/skills/kubernetes-deployment/SKILL.md and add:
Your skill grows with each application you deploy.
Validate skill transferability with Claude:
What you're learning: How to validate that intelligence you've captured actually transfers to new contexts—the difference between a template and a skill.
Your skill started from official documentation in Lesson 0. Through 14 lessons, you learned what those patterns mean in practice. Now you've tested whether your skill captures that learning in transferable form.
A well-designed skill guides fundamentally similar decisions (resource balance, health checking, configuration injection) even when the specific answers differ by application type.
Next: Optional lessons 16-22 cover advanced patterns. Each one is an opportunity to extend your skill with specialized guidance.