What is mcp-lifecycle-operator AGENTS.md?

Project instructions for a Kubernetes operator that manages MCP server resources. Kubernetes is software for running and managing containerized applications, and an operator automates tasks for it.

Use it when developing, testing, or deploying the operator, especially its controllers, webhooks, resource schemas, and example configurations.

It explains the project structure, generated files, and rules that prevent accidental edits to files rebuilt by code generation.

How kubernetes-sigs/mcp-lifecycle-operator configures Codex and OpenCo

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kubernetes-sigs/mcp-lifecycle-operator. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/mcp-lifecycle-operator/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/mcp-lifecycle-operator

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Per session 2,773 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,773 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02773	$0.02773
Opus 5.5	$0.01109	$0.01109
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00555	$0.00555
Haiku 4.5	$0.00277	$0.00277

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d463bc2fcf0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-lifecycle-operator 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 2mo 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.

AGENTS.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mcp-lifecycle-operator - AI Agent Guide

Project Structure

Single-group layout (default):

cmd/main.go                    Manager entry (registers controllers/webhooks)
api/<version>/*_types.go       CRD schemas (+kubebuilder markers)
api/<version>/zz_generated.*   Auto-generated (DO NOT EDIT)
internal/controller/*          Reconciliation logic
internal/webhook/*             Validation/defaulting (if present)
config/crd/bases/*             Generated CRDs (DO NOT EDIT)
config/rbac/role.yaml          Generated RBAC (DO NOT EDIT)
config/samples/*               Example CRs (edit these)
Makefile                       Build/test/deploy commands
PROJECT                        Kubebuilder metadata Auto-generated (DO NOT EDIT)

Multi-group layout (for projects with multiple API groups):

api/<group>/<version>/*_types.go       CRD schemas by group
internal/controller/<group>/*          Controllers by group
internal/webhook/<group>/<version>/*   Webhooks by group and version (if present)

Multi-group layout organizes APIs by group name (e.g., batch, apps). Check the PROJECT file for multigroup: true.

To convert to multi-group layout:

Run: kubebuilder edit --multigroup=true
Move APIs: mkdir -p api/<group> && mv api/<version> api/<group>/
Move controllers: mkdir -p internal/controller/<group> && mv internal/controller/*.go internal/controller/<group>/
Move webhooks (if present): mkdir -p internal/webhook/<group> && mv internal/webhook/<version> internal/webhook/<group>/
Update import paths in all files
Fix path in PROJECT file for each resource
Update test suite CRD paths (add one more .. to relative paths)

Critical Rules

Never Edit These (Auto-Generated)

config/crd/bases/*.yaml - from make manifests
config/rbac/role.yaml - from make manifests
config/webhook/manifests.yaml - from make manifests
**/zz_generated.*.go - from make generate
PROJECT - from kubebuilder [OPTIONS]

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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.

2mo ago First seen · 288 lines · 2,773 tokens per session scan A d463bc2fcf0d

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mcp-lifecycle-operator AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kubernetes-sigs/mcp-lifecycle-operator (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,773 tokens to every session, about $0.0111 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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