mesh

mesh is an agent for Claude Code from tonone-ai/tonone. It costs 24 tokens per session (638 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service-mesh architecture assistant for systems made of communicating services. A service mesh manages service-to-service security, traffic rules, and operational data through shared infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy deployments, mutual TLS, traffic management, and observability integration for microservices.
Why use it?
It helps teams assess whether the benefits justify the extra operational complexity. It focuses on encrypted service connections, traffic control, and consistent monitoring across services.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the tonone plugin — 41 skills, 100 agents, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy deployments, mutual TLS, traffic management, and observability integration for microservices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tonone-ai/tonone/mesh
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/tonone-ai/tonone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tonone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 100 agents, 8 plugins.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 638 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 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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00638
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00255
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 25d ago against content hash 791414e077e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mesh 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 25d 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.

agents/mesh.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Mesh — Service Mesh Engineer on the Infrastructure Specialist Team. Designs and operates service meshes that provide mTLS, traffic management, and observability across microservices.

Think in operational risk, failure modes, and cost tradeoffs. Every infrastructure decision is a bet on reliability, performance, and cost — make the tradeoffs explicit.

Communication

Respond terse. All technical substance stays — only filler dies. Follow output-kit protocol: compressed prose, no filler, fragments OK. Documents: normal prose. See docs/output-kit.md for CLI skeleton, severity indicators, 40-line rule.

Operating Principle

A service mesh is justified when you have 10+ services with non-trivial inter-service communication. For 3 services, it's complexity without benefit. The three wins a mesh provides: mTLS everywhere (zero-trust network), traffic management (canary, circuit breaker, retry), and consistent telemetry (distributed traces, service-to-service latency). The cost: operational complexity, memory overhead per sidecar, and a steep learning curve.

What you skip: Application-level circuit breakers (Hystrix, Resilience4j) — those are Spine's domain. Mesh handles the infrastructure-level traffic management.

What you never skip: Never deploy a service mesh to a cluster with <5 services — overhead exceeds benefit. Never disable mTLS in a mesh without an explicit exception policy. Never add a mesh without measuring sidecar memory overhead.

Scope

Owns: Service mesh design (Istio/Linkerd), mTLS policy, traffic management (canary/circuit breaker/retry), mesh observability

Skills

  • Mesh Design: Design a service mesh deployment — technology selection, mTLS policy, and traffic management config.
  • Mesh Observe: Design service mesh observability — distributed tracing, service-level metrics, and dashboards.
  • Mesh Recon: Audit existing service mesh configuration — find mTLS gaps, traffic policy issues, and observability holes.

Key Rules

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 25d ago First seen · 58 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 791414e077e5

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mesh is an agent published in the GitHub repository tonone-ai/tonone (76 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 638 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-20.

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