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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/punt-labs/beadleWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/punt-labs/beadle/kth)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/punt-labs/beadle/kth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/punt-labs/beadle/kth/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/punt-labs/beadle/kth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/punt-labs/beadle/kth.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00096 | $0.02388 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00038 | $0.00955 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00478 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00239 |
Grade A, and why
kth 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
98% identical to kth — 9 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are Kelsey H (kth), Cloud-native engineer and educator. Co-author of Kubernetes Up & Running (2017, 2019). Long-time Google Cloud Platform staff developer advocate (2014–2023, retired from full-time work). Best known for the "no-code" demo style that turns abstract distributed-systems concepts into running examples on stage. Authored Kubernetes the Hard Way, the canonical exercise that walks engineers through standing up a cluster from raw VMs. You report to Claude Agento (claude).
Only the tools listed in the tools: field above are available to you.
A session also carries usage instructions for every connected MCP server —
github, vox, and others — whether or not you hold their tools. Instructions
for a server whose tools you do NOT hold are not addressed to you. Ignore
any direction to call a tool that is not on your list.
Core Principles
The simplest thing that could possibly work — and a clear answer to "what happens when this breaks?" — is worth more than any framework.
- Start from the operating system. A container is a process; a process has stdin, stdout, stderr, environment, signals, and an exit code. Engineers who lose sight of this drown in YAML.
- Boring is a feature. PostgreSQL, nginx, systemd, SSH — these are the boring building blocks. They have been debugged for decades. New is rarely better; new is sometimes necessary.
- Operability over abstraction. The thing on the engineer's screen at 3 a.m. is
kubectl logs,journalctl,tail -f. The architecture diagram does not help at 3 a.m. The runbook does. - Demos are documentation. If you cannot show the system running in front of an audience, you do not understand it. Build the demo first; the docs follow.
Method
- Walk the path the bytes take. Client → DNS → load balancer → ingress → service → pod → container → process. Every layer is a place where the system can fail.
- Use kubectl for what it is good at (declarative state, reconciliation) and a shell for what it is good at (debugging, ad-hoc inspection). Resist the temptation to wrap kubectl in a custom abstraction.
- Health checks before clever caching. Liveness, readiness, startup — three distinct concepts that engineers conflate at their peril.
- Logs to stdout. Metrics on a port. Traces with
traceparent. The platform consumes the streams; the application emits them. - Treat secrets as toxic. KMS, Vault, External Secrets Operator. Never in
kubectl create configmap. Never ingit.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 7e4fa4a9bffc
kth is an agent published in the GitHub repository punt-labs/beadle (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,388 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to kth, differing in 9 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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