Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to gke-labs/kube-agents. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gke-labs/kube-agents/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gke-labs/kube-agentsWrote 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/instructions/gke-labs/kube-agents/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/gke-labs/kube-agents/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/gke-labs/kube-agents/agents-md/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/instructions/gke-labs/kube-agents/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/gke-labs/kube-agents/agents-md.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 | $0.05689 | $0.05689 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.02276 | $0.02276 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01138 | $0.01138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00569 | $0.00569 |
Grade A, and why
kube-agents AGENTS.md 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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
Project Overview
This repository contains the Kubernetes Agentic Harness (kube-agents): agent configurations, personas, and skills for managing Kubernetes/GKE operations.
Repository Layout
agents/: Source of truth for agent blueprints (personas and skills).chat/: The Planning Agent front door: thedefaultHermes profile that receives chat ingress, plans the work, and delegates each piece to a specialist.platform/: Configuration for the Platform Agent, scaffolded at pod startup into theplatformprofile.cluster/: The Cluster Agent profile template (persona, scoped config, runtime-debugging skills), which the Platform Agent scaffolds into per-cluster Hermes profiles at runtime; not deployed directly.contributor/: The contributor-agent protocol: the claim/PR/review/escalation loop for external bots (e.g. Kyber, Codebot Robot) coordinating over GitHub alone. Not a runtime blueprint; not shipped.
.agents/skills/: Repository-level skills, not shipped in the agent images: review skills (adversarial, security, docs-drift, skill quality) run against pull requests and clusters,review-preflightruns the pre-PR set in a context that did not write the change, theinstall-/uninstall-/upgrade-kube-agentslifecycle skills drive the installer scripts, andedit-mirrored-skilledits mirroredgke-*skills..agents/rules/: Repository-level rules, one file per family: code (core_engineering.md), workflows (github_actions.md), pre-PR passes (pre_pr_review.md), eval-driven development (eval_driven_development.md), docs (documentation.md).a2a/: bus Go module: wire library,a2atopics CLI (docs/designs/spec-a2a-payloads.md), gateway, auth-callout,persona/(bus content),lib/persona/(persona format).charts/: Canonical Helm chart (kube-agents) deploying the operator and profiles.terraform/: Reusable Terraform modules (gke-cluster,kube-agents-iam,kube-agents-scope-resolver,chat-pubsub,github-minter,gke-backup-plan,drift-pubsub), plusexamples/full-install/, the single-apply composition that installs the Helm chart on top.deploy/: Dockerfile, Kustomize bases, shared runtime assets.docs/: Documentation.site/: The published site (Astro + Starlight), the canonical home for user-facing docs.architecture/: The end-state specification (01–09): the target, not what ships today.designs/: Per-feature design documents.
k8s-operator/: Go/Kubebuilder operator reconcilingPlatformAgentresources.scripts/: Repository tooling:installer/(shared by the front doors),dev/,release/.examples/: LiteLLM provider configs, vLLM serving, inference replay.bench/: Evaluation harness running kubernetes-sigs/devops-bench against the Platform Agent.images.json: Inventory of every container image an install pulls, with its upstream reference and pin; read bymake mirror-images, the kustomize deploy targets, and the docs generator.INSTALL.md: Installation guide.README.md: Project overview.
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.
- 3d ago Changed 5689c7f7a807
- 4d ago Changed · +6 tokens per session fed9072fcd00
- 5d ago Changed · +1 lines · +26 tokens per session 7ccfa602cde7
- 16d ago Changed · -30 tokens per session 8076ee086355
- 17d ago Changed · -184 lines · -3,120 tokens per session e5ef8f0e8688
- 18d ago Changed · +1 lines · -5 tokens per session 28a6276ffcb5
- 19d ago Changed · -3 lines · -40 tokens per session 10a6583afe16
- 20d ago Changed · +2 tokens per session f53f53becce3
- 24d ago Changed · +9 tokens per session 2dae5721e8bd
- 25d ago First seen · 495 lines · 8,841 tokens per session scan A 711ab4e89a66
kube-agents AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (116 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 5,689 tokens to every session, about $0.0228 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 2026-08-30.
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