Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to openshift/external-secrets-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/external-secrets-operator/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift/external-secrets-operatorWrote 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/openshift/external-secrets-operator/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/openshift/external-secrets-operator/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/openshift/external-secrets-operator/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/openshift/external-secrets-operator/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/openshift/external-secrets-operator/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 | $0.02561 | $0.02561 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01024 | $0.01024 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00512 | $0.00512 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00256 | $0.00256 |
Grade A, and why
external-secrets-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 yesterday.
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 — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
External Secrets Operator — Agentic Documentation
Component: External Secrets Operator for Red Hat OpenShift Repository: openshift/external-secrets-operator
Platform Patterns: See openshift/enhancements/ai-docs/ for operator patterns, testing practices, security guidelines, and cross-repo ADRs.
What is ESO?
Manages the lifecycle of the upstream external-secrets project on OpenShift. Deploys and configures the operand via static YAML manifests embedded as bindata — it is not a fork.
Key Principle: The operator owns the operand deployment; users configure via two singleton CRs (ExternalSecretsConfig, ExternalSecretsManager), both named cluster.
Core Components
| Component | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|
| ExternalSecrets Controller | Operand lifecycle (install, update, delete) | pkg/controller/external_secrets/ |
| ESM Controller | Status aggregation, default ESM creation | pkg/controller/external_secrets_manager/ |
| CRD Annotator | cert-manager CA injection on CRDs (conditional) | pkg/controller/crd_annotator/ |
Quick Start: oc get esc cluster -o yaml | oc get esm cluster -o yaml | oc get pods -n external-secrets
Critical Patterns
- NOT Server-Side Apply — all updates use
UpdateWithRetry(Get → set ResourceVersion → Update). Co-managed resources (Secret, ConfigMap) usepatchResourceMetadatafor metadata-only JSON Patch. Never introduce SSA. - Bindata pipeline — operand manifests are pre-rendered from upstream Helm charts at build time (
hack/update-external-secrets-manifests.sh), embedded viaopenshift/build-machinery-go.pkg/operator/assets/bindata.gois generated — never hand-edit. - Immutable cert-manager fields —
mode,injectAnnotations,issuerRefin CertManagerConfig are immutable via CELself == oldSelf. Network policy entries (name+componentName) also cannot be removed once added.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 151 lines · 2,561 tokens per session scan A e67d4bc78d76
external-secrets-operator AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository openshift/external-secrets-operator (13 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,561 tokens to every session, about $0.0102 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 2026-10-26.
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