gcx is a command-line tool that lets people and AI coding agents manage and inspect Grafana Cloud, Enterprise, and open-source instances. It provides access to dashboards, alerts, SLOs, metrics, logs, and traces, with workflows for alert investigation, dashboard management, GitOps, and observability setup. Its catalogue entries provide agent instructions and extensions for using gcx.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to grafana/gcx. 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/grafana/gcx/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/gcxWrote 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/grafana/gcx/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/grafana/gcx/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/grafana/gcx/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/grafana/gcx/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/grafana/gcx/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 | $0.03585 | $0.03585 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01434 | $0.01434 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00717 | $0.00717 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00359 | $0.00359 |
Grade A, and why
gcx 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 7d 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 — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
gcx — Agent & Developer Entry Point
Lightweight map for autonomous coding agents. Read this first, then navigate to specific docs on demand.
Quick Start
gcx is a unified CLI for managing Grafana resources. It operates in two tiers: (1) a K8s resource tier that uses Grafana 12+'s Kubernetes-compatible API via k8s.io/client-go for dashboards, folders, and other K8s-native resources, and (2) a Cloud provider tier with pluggable providers for Grafana Cloud products (SLO, Synthetic Monitoring, IRM, Fleet Management, etc.) that use product-specific REST APIs. Built in Go, it uses Cobra for CLI structure.
Documentation Map
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| VISION.md | Goals, product surface, roadmap themes, release timeline |
| CONSTITUTION.md | Invariants — things that cannot change without explicit human approval |
| ARCHITECTURE.md | System boundaries, extension points, and pipeline diagrams |
| DESIGN.md | CLI UX design: command grammar, output model, exit codes |
| CONTRIBUTING.md | Dev setup, testing environment, contribution workflow |
| docs/architecture/ | Deep-dive architecture docs (patterns, resource model, CLI layer, data flows, …) |
| docs/design/ | Prescriptive UX implementation rules (output, errors, agent mode, naming, …) |
| docs/rfcs/ | Engineering proposals, design tradeoffs, and open questions |
| docs/reference/ | Handwritten provider guides and contributor references |
Architecture at a Glance
Two tiers: K8s resource tier (dashboards, folders via /apis) and Cloud provider tier (SLO, SM, IRM, etc. via product REST APIs). See ARCHITECTURE.md for pipeline diagrams and extension pipelines.
Key Conventions
Authoritative source: CONSTITUTION.md (invariants) and DESIGN.md (UX rules). This is the quick-reference summary.
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.
- 7d ago Changed · +4 tokens per session 9e2d41f6f5e1
- 8d ago Changed · -24 lines · -265 tokens per session 4d70fd3a23ad
- 14d ago Changed · -2 lines · -88 tokens per session c6016bd71031
- 15d ago Changed · +1 lines · +19 tokens per session 4156a3d43f64
- 16d ago Changed · +4 lines · +66 tokens per session d2e4faba199a
- 20d ago Changed · +1 lines · +36 tokens per session 5b1796a8e30e
- 21d ago Changed · +1 lines · +74 tokens per session ab6df4a35e4c
- 22d ago Changed · +1 lines · +150 tokens per session 74cd41a669c4
- 23d ago Changed · +2 lines · +101 tokens per session 8a2099293755
- 26d ago First seen · 190 lines · 3,488 tokens per session scan A 609519eafb69
gcx AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository grafana/gcx (805 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,585 tokens to every session, about $0.0143 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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