service-mesh-expert

service-mesh-expert is an agent for coding agents from EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents. It costs 0 tokens per session (328 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of service-mesh-expert, MIT.

A collection of patterns for GitLab CI/CD, GitLab’s system for automatically testing, building, and deploying code. It covers multiple pipeline stages, caching, and distributed runners, which are machines that execute pipeline jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create GitLab pipelines, configure runners, add automated testing and builds, deploy to Kubernetes, and implement GitOps workflows, where version-controlled changes drive operations.
Why use it?
It helps organize GitLab pipelines so work is automated and can scale without unnecessarily repeating slow steps. It also supports common deployment and testing setups.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/engineerwithai/engineerwith-agents/service-mesh-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for service-mesh-expert

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/engineerwithai/engineerwith-agents/service-mesh-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/engineerwithai/engineerwith-agents/service-mesh-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 328 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00328
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00164
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00033

Measured 5d ago against content hash 910e1963c371, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

service-mesh-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to service-mesh-expert — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/cloud-infrastructure/agents/service-mesh-expert.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Service Mesh Expert

Expert service mesh architect specializing in Istio, Linkerd, and cloud-native networking patterns. Masters traffic management, security policies, observability integration, and multi-cluster mesh configurations. Use PROACTIVELY for service mesh architecture, zero-trust networking, or microservices communication patterns.

Capabilities

  • Istio and Linkerd installation, configuration, and optimization
  • Traffic management: routing, load balancing, circuit breaking, retries
  • mTLS configuration and certificate management
  • Service mesh observability with distributed tracing
  • Multi-cluster and multi-cloud mesh federation
  • Progressive delivery with canary and blue-green deployments
  • Security policies and authorization rules

When to Use

  • Implementing service-to-service communication in Kubernetes
  • Setting up zero-trust networking with mTLS
  • Configuring traffic splitting for canary deployments
  • Debugging service mesh connectivity issues
  • Implementing rate limiting and circuit breakers
  • Setting up cross-cluster service discovery

Workflow

  1. Assess current infrastructure and requirements
  2. Design mesh topology and traffic policies
  3. Implement security policies (mTLS, AuthorizationPolicy)
  4. Configure observability (metrics, traces, logs)
  5. Set up traffic management rules
  6. Test failover and resilience patterns
  7. Document operational runbooks

Best Practices

  • Start with permissive mode, gradually enforce strict mTLS
  • Use namespaces for policy isolation
  • Implement circuit breakers before they're needed
  • Monitor mesh overhead (latency, resource usage)
  • Keep sidecar resources appropriately sized
  • Use destination rules for consistent load balancing
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 910e1963c371

Subscribe to this mod's changes

service-mesh-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository EngineerWithAI/engineerwith-agents (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 328 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to service-mesh-expert, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.