extract-kubeconfig

extract-kubeconfig is a command for Claude Code from openshift-eng/ai-helpers. It costs 11 tokens per session (4,054 once invoked), scanned D, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that retrieves the Kubernetes access configuration, called a kubeconfig, from a running CI job in a GitHub pull request. Kubernetes is the system managing the job's test cluster.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with an OpenShift release pull request to extract and verify access to standard or HyperShift test clusters, including public and private CI jobs.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of finding the right build cluster, checking whether it is ready, and locating the configuration needed to connect to it.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the ci plugin — 34 skills, 21 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it with an OpenShift release pull request to extract and verify access to standard or HyperShift test clusters, including public and private CI jobs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/extract-kubeconfig
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/openshift-eng/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ci, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 21 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,054 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 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 $0.00011 $0.04054
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.02027
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00811
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00405

Measured 8d ago against content hash b147377383c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

extract-kubeconfig scanned grade D with 3 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 8d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 600 /tmp/<namespace>-kubeconfig.yaml

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

**IMPORTANT**: Use a dedicated temporary kubeconfig file for all build cluster operations. This prevents modifying the user's current kubeconfig context in `~/.kube/config`, which could disrupt other processes (e.g., run

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/<branch>/ci-operator/jobs/<org>/<repo_dir>/<periodics_file>" \
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/ci/commands/extract-kubeconfig.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Name

ci:extract-kubeconfig

Synopsis

/ci:extract-kubeconfig <pr-url>

Description

The ci:extract-kubeconfig command extracts the kubeconfig from a running rehearsal/CI job in a GitHub PR. It checks the job's step status to determine if the cluster is ready, then connects to the build cluster to extract the kubeconfig from the running pod.

The command accepts:

  • PR URL (required): GitHub PR URL in the openshift/release repository

What it does:

  1. Validates the PR URL and checks ownership
  2. Finds running (PENDING) jobs on the PR
  3. Determines the build cluster (via GCS for public jobs, or via job config in the repo for qe-private-deck jobs)
  4. Logs into the build cluster and finds the CI namespace
  5. Checks step status via pod statuses to verify the cluster is ready
  6. Extracts the kubeconfig (and nested kubeconfig for HyperShift) from the running pod
  7. Verifies cluster health and reports results

Key features:

  • Supports both standard and HyperShift (nested kubeconfig) clusters
  • Supports both public (prow.ci.openshift.org) and private (qe-private-deck) jobs
  • Uses ci-op namespace prefix on kubeconfig filenames to support multiple concurrent extractions
  • Warns if you're not the PR author (may lack namespace access)
  • Recognizes wait steps as valid running states for extraction

Prerequisites

  1. GitHub CLI (gh)

    • Check if installed: which gh
    • Must be authenticated: gh auth status
  2. OpenShift CLI (oc)

    • Check if installed: which oc
    • Used to login to build clusters and extract kubeconfig
  3. Google Cloud Storage (gsutil) (optional)

    • Check if installed: which gsutil
    • No authentication needed (test-platform-results bucket is public)
    • If not installed, the command falls back to finding the build cluster from the job config in the openshift/release repo
  4. PR in openshift/release repository

    • The command only supports PRs in the openshift/release repository
    • You should be the PR author to have access to the CI namespace on the build cluster

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 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. 8d ago First seen · 328 lines · 11 tokens per session scan D b147377383c3

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extract-kubeconfig is a command published in the GitHub repository openshift-eng/ai-helpers (116 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 4,054 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.