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.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.08809 | $0.08809 |
| Opus 5 | $0.04405 | $0.04405 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.01762 | $0.01762 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00881 | $0.00881 |
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 2d 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 — 495 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). It is a collection of agent configurations, personas, and skills designed to manage Kubernetes/GKE operations. It utilizes a Platform Agent to transition from reactive manual management to proactive, intent-driven 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, and runtime-debugging skills). The Platform Agent scaffolds this into per-cluster Hermes profiles at runtime; it is not deployed directly.
.agents/skills/: Repository-level skills, not shipped in the agent images — review skills (adversarial change review, security audits, docs-drift, skill quality) run against pull requests and clusters, withreview-preflightrunning the pre-PR set of them in a context that did not write the change, plus theinstall-kube-agents/uninstall-kube-agents/upgrade-kube-agentslifecycle skills that drive the repository's installer scripts..agents/rules/: Repository-level rules an agent follows, one file per family and none shipped in the agent images —core_engineering.mdfor the code itself,github_actions.mdfor workflow authoring,pre_pr_review.mdfor the mechanics of the two pre-PR passes. This file states each rule and links there for the form it takes; the split keepsAGENTS.mdinside the context budgetscripts/check_context_budget.pyenforces.a2a/: Go module for the agent-to-agent bus — wire-protocol library anda2atopics CLI perdocs/designs/spec-a2a-payloads.md, plus agent profiles. Nothing imports it yet.charts/: Canonical Helm charts (kube-agents) for deploying the Kube-Agents operator and profiles.terraform/: Companion reusable Terraform modules (gke-cluster,kube-agents-iam,chat-pubsub,github-minter,gke-backup-plan,drift-pubsub) for infrastructure provisioning, plusexamples/full-install/, the single-apply composition that installs the Helm chart on top.drift-pubsubis not yet part of that composition.deploy/: Deployment infrastructure code (Dockerfile, Kustomize bases, shared runtime assets).docs/: Documentation.site/: The published documentation site (Astro + Starlight) — the canonical home for user-facing docs.architecture/: The end-state architecture specification (01–09). Describes the target, not what ships today.designs/: Per-feature design documents.
k8s-operator/: Go/Kubebuilder operator reconcilingPlatformAgentCustom Resources.scripts/: Repository tooling —installer/(what the front doors share),dev/,release/.examples/: Example integrations (LiteLLM provider configs, vLLM serving, inference replay).bench/: Evaluation harness that runs kubernetes-sigs/devops-bench against the Platform Agent as a pip-installed library.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.
- 2d ago Changed · +3 lines · +47 tokens per session 95f01e17403b
- 3d ago Changed · -5 lines · -123 tokens per session f06cacafb920
- 4d ago Changed · +12 lines · +308 tokens per session a6d85d7ed063
- 4d ago Changed · -1 lines · -103 tokens per session 63d612344478
- 8d ago First seen · 486 lines · 8,680 tokens per session scan A b4f1f672d4ac
kube-agents AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (53 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8,809 tokens to every session, about $0.0440 per session on Opus 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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