Operations And Maintenance

Use these skills when the pool already exists and the operator needs structured maintenance guidance.

Preferred prompts

• “I would like to rotate KES keys for my producer”
• “I need to update my pool registration”
• “I want to retire this pool”
• “My producer looks healthy locally but I am not seeing expected blocks”

Core skills

• cardano-spo-maintenance-overview.md
  • choose the right maintenance workflow before touching a live system
• cardano-spo-kes-rotation.md
  • rotate KES and issue a new op.cert
• cardano-spo-pool-update.md
  • update registration parameters such as metadata, relays, pledge, cost, and margin
• cardano-spo-pool-retirement.md
  • retire a pool deliberately and with explicit epoch choice
• cardano-block-producer-verification.md
  • distinguish what Supernode can verify directly versus what still needs external confirmation
• cardano-block-producer-troubleshooting.md
  • diagnose propagation or visibility problems when the cluster looks healthy locally
• cardano-node-metrics-access.md
  • inspect raw and derived node metrics directly from pods

Operational stance

This skill family is where Supernode makes its operating model safest:

• custody boundaries stay explicit
• dry runs stop before live mutation unless the operator explicitly asks otherwise
• Vault, Helm, and ledger changes are treated as checkpointed steps

Use Secrets And Vault and Troubleshooting for the manual reference layer.