What is kube-argus CLAUDE.md?

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.

Use them when changing or checking Kube-Argus's server, Kubernetes deployment, authentication, audit trail, notifications, cost advice, or AI diagnosis features.

They give coding agents the repository's architecture and rules, including testing backend changes and keeping authentication, auditing, notifications, and other responsibilities organized.

How manishchaudhary101/kube-argus configures Claude Code

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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.

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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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Per session 2,746 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,746 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 1 finding. 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	$0.02746	$0.02746
Opus 5.5	$0.01098	$0.01098
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00549	$0.00549
Haiku 4.5	$0.00275	$0.00275

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9d1f7058c7ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

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.

2mo 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 (130 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,746 tokens to every session, about $0.0110 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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