kube-argus: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

kube-argus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from manishchaudhary101/kube-argus. It costs 2,746 tokens per session, scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

Project notes for Kube-Argus, a Kubernetes dashboard shipped as one Go program with a Helm chart. Kubernetes is a system for running and managing containerized applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing or checking Kube-Argus's server, Kubernetes deployment, authentication, audit trail, notifications, cost advice, or AI diagnosis features.
Why use it?
They give coding agents the repository's architecture and rules, including testing backend changes and keeping authentication, auditing, notifications, and other responsibilities organized.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is manishchaudhary101/kube-argus's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kube-argus itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kube-argus configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/manish/Desktop/kube-argus.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to manishchaudhary101/kube-argus. 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/manishchaudhary101/kube-argus/master/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manishchaudhary101/kube-argus

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.01373 $0.01373
Sonnet 5 $0.00549 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00275 $0.00275

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9d1f7058c7ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

kube-argus CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

go run ./cmd/server # localhost:8080, uses ~/.kube/config
CLAUDE.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kube-argus — Claude working notes

Guidance for future Claude sessions on this repo. Read this first before making changes.

What this is

Real-time Kubernetes dashboard shipped as a single Go binary + Helm chart. In-cluster deployment, OIDC / Google SSO auth, JIT exec workflow, Slack + generic webhook notifications, cost/spot advisor, AI-diagnose via LLM gateway, audit trail persisted to ConfigMaps. Maintained by @manishchaudhary101. Public repo: github.com/manishchaudhary101/kube-argus. ArtifactHub: artifacthub.io/packages/helm/kube-argus/kube-argus. Landing page: manishchaudhary101.github.io/kube-argus.

Architecture (post-v1.2.8 reorganisation)

cmd/server/main.go              — 238-line wire-up ONLY (env → clients → DI → mux → ListenAndServe)

internal/
├── httpx/                      — response helpers (JSON, Error, K8sError, JSONGz, WsUpgrader, WsCheckOrigin)
├── auth/                       — sessions, OIDC, Google SSO, RequireAdmin, IsAdmin, ClientIP, middleware
├── audit/                      — trail, dedup, retention, ConfigMap persistence, WebSocket presence broadcast
├── jit/                        — JIT store, approve/deny/revoke/expiry, ConfigMap persistence
├── notify/                     — Slack + generic webhook, HMAC signing, event filtering
└── api/                        — every HTTP handler + cache + informers + Prometheus + spot advisor
                                  + AI diagnose + Helm SDK + CRD browser (dynamic client)
                                  Init(clientset, metricsCl, restConfig, clusterName) wires globals.

web/src/
├── main.tsx                    — QueryClientProvider (TanStack Query) wraps App
├── App.tsx                     — router, sidebar, tab switching, WebSocket presence, JIT poll
├── hooks/
│   ├── useFetch.tsx            — original SWR-style fetch hook (still used by most views)
│   └── useApi.ts               — TanStack Query drop-in wrapper (POC; rename useFetch→useApi to migrate)
└── components/
    ├── views/                  — top-level tab views (Overview, Pods, Workloads, CRDs, etc.)
    └── modals/                 — YAML, HelmRelease, Info popover, Settings, Audit, JITRequests, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 177 lines · 2,746 tokens per session scan C 9d1f7058c7ac

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kube-argus CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository manishchaudhary101/kube-argus (131 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,746 tokens to every session, about $0.0137 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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