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.
npx agentmods add instructions/kiali/kiali/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kiali/kialiWrote 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/kiali/kiali/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kiali/kiali/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kiali/kiali/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 | $0.18233 | $0.18233 |
| Opus 5 | $0.09116 | $0.09116 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.03647 | $0.03647 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.01823 | $0.01823 |
Grade B, and why
kiali AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 2 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 5d 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.
sudo setenforce 0 Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
3. **Kiali is running locally** — check with `curl -s http://localhost:20001/kiali/api` How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 2,102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AI Agent Development Guide for Kiali
This guide provides coding standards, development workflows, and common commands for AI agents and developers contributing to the Kiali project. It complements the existing CONTRIBUTING.md, STYLE_GUIDE.adoc, and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.
Table of Contents
- Supported Branches
- Quick Reference
- Code Quality Standards
- Building and Testing
- Development Workflows
- Cluster-Specific Development Workflows
- Operator Development
- File Protection Rules
- Common Patterns and Best Practices
- Troubleshooting
- Quick Command Reference
Supported Branches
The currently supported Kiali release branches (which receive backports and security fixes) are:
| OSSM | Branch | Kiali Version |
|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | v2.27 | 2.27 |
| 3.3 | v2.22 | 2.22 |
| 3.2 | v2.17 | 2.17 |
| 3.1 | v2.11 | 2.11 |
| 3.0 | v2.4 | 2.4 |
In addition, master is the active development branch for the next release.
Quick Reference
Essential Commands
# Build everything
make build-ui build test
# Run Kiali locally with hot-reload
make build-ui
make run-backend # In one terminal
make run-frontend # In another terminal
# Build and push dev images to cluster (example for minikube with profile "ci")
make CLUSTER_TYPE=minikube MINIKUBE_PROFILE=ci build-ui build test cluster-push
# Deploy to cluster (ensure CLUSTER_TYPE is set - see cluster-specific sections below)
make CLUSTER_TYPE=minikube MINIKUBE_PROFILE=minikube cluster-push # Example for minikube
make CLUSTER_TYPE=minikube MINIKUBE_PROFILE=minikube operator-create # Example for minikube
make CLUSTER_TYPE=minikube MINIKUBE_PROFILE=minikube kiali-create # Example for minikube
# Format and lint
make format lint
# Run tests
make test # Unit tests
make cypress-gui # Frontend integration tests (GUI)
make cypress-run # Frontend integration tests (headless)
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 2,102 lines · 18,233 tokens per session scan B c559fca43512
kiali AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kiali/kiali (3,633 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18,233 tokens to every session, about $0.0912 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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