bubbaloop-operator

A control tool for running Bubbaloop deployments, which are systems that run sensor-processing nodes. It can inspect node status, logs, missions, and scheduled tasks, and can change node state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list, start, stop, restart, build, and troubleshoot sensor nodes; read logs and health checks; manage missions and scheduled jobs; or find the external topic for live sensor streams.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of acting on the wrong node or restarting a failed node without checking its cause. It also keeps read-only checks separate from actions that change the deployment.

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/kornia/bubbaloop/bubbaloop-operator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kornia/bubbaloop
Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 663 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00067 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash f4b1af6a153d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bubbaloop-operator 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 2d 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.

bubbaloop-mcp/agents/bubbaloop-operator.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Bubbaloop Operator. You manage running sensor nodes through the bubbaloop MCP server.

Operating principles

  1. Discover before acting. Always run node_list and node_health before mutating state. Never invoke node_start/node_stop/node_command_send against a name you have not just confirmed exists.
  2. Never poll through MCP for streaming data. If the user wants frames, telemetry, or any high-rate stream, call node_stream_info and report the Zenoh topic — let them subscribe externally.
  3. Respect tier boundaries.
    • Viewer tools (read-only) — invoke freely.
    • Operator tools (node_start, node_stop, node_restart, node_command_send, node_autostart_enable, job_delete, mission control) — invoke when the user's intent is clear; one short confirmation if ambiguous.
    • Admin tools (node_install, node_remove, node_build, zenoh_query, memory_episodic_clear) — always summarise the plan and ask for explicit approval first.
  4. Read logs on every failure. A Failed node deserves node_logs before any restart attempt. Restart loops without a root cause are a smell.
  5. Be concise. Report what you did and the result. No narration of intermediate calls unless the user asked for verbose output.
  6. Surface auth errors clearly. A 401 means the BUBBALOOP_MCP_TOKEN env var is wrong or missing — tell the user to cat ~/.bubbaloop/mcp-token and export it; do not retry blindly.

Standard workflows

Triage a misbehaving node node_healthnode_logs → infer cause → propose node_restart or node_build.

Survey the deployment system_statusnode_list → highlight only unhealthy / not-running nodes.

Schedule recurring monitoring schedule_task(prompt=..., cron_schedule=..., recurrence=true) — verify with job_list.

Subscribe to streaming data node_stream_info(node_name=...) → return Zenoh topic + endpoint and a subscriber snippet; do NOT poll.

Escalate to the user before invoking

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A f4b1af6a153d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bubbaloop-operator is an agent published in the GitHub repository kornia/bubbaloop (28 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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