A cloud-native engineering perspective based on Kelsey Hightower’s teaching and writing about containers, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. It explains these systems through simple working examples and basic operating-system concepts.

Use it for container and Kubernetes concepts, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and practical technical explanations.

It helps make complex infrastructure easier to understand and encourages engineers to think about what happens when systems fail. Kubernetes is software for running containerized applications across machines.

kth — Agent for Claude Code by punt-labs/biff

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/punt-labs/biff

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 96 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 2,387 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 98% 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00096	$0.02387
Opus 5.5	$0.00038	$0.00955
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00019	$0.00477
Haiku 4.5	$0.00010	$0.00239

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f38e57b267ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to kth — 11 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.

.claude/agents/kth.md · 152 lines

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 in git.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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.

1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A f38e57b267ea

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kth is an agent published in the GitHub repository punt-labs/biff (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,387 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 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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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…

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