GKE Node NotReady Troubleshooting Skill Use this skill to systematically diagnose why one or more GKE nodes report a (or ) status and to propose safe remediations. A status means the node's kubelet is not reporting to the control plane correctly, so Kubernetes stops scheduling new Pods on the node, which can reduce application capacity and cause downtime. This skill operates non-interactively and enforces a read-only diagnostics boundary : gather evidence first, then propose a fix (a / command or a GitOps manifest change) for a human to apply. Never mutate the cluster, drain, delete, or recre…