working-with-operator

Repository guidance for changing the Jumpstarter Operator, a Kubernetes component that manages Jumpstarter deployments. It points to the operator's custom resource definitions, controller code, deployment files, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying Kubernetes custom resources, controller reconciliation logic, access rules, endpoints, deployment configuration, or end-to-end tests.
Why use it?
It helps developers find the right files and understand which parts of the operator are affected by a change.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter/working-with-operator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,385 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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
Fable 5 $0.00015 $0.01385
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00692
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00138

Measured 2d ago against content hash 43603442d23d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

working-with-operator 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 2d 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.

.cursor/rules/working-with-operator.mdc · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working with the Jumpstarter Operator

The Jumpstarter operator is a Kubernetes operator that manages Jumpstarter deployments. It is located in controller/deploy/operator/.

Directory Structure

controller/
├── deploy/
│   ├── operator/                    # Operator code
│   │   ├── api/v1alpha1/           # CRD type definitions
│   │   │   └── jumpstarter_types.go # Main types file
│   │   ├── internal/controller/     # Controller logic
│   │   │   └── jumpstarter/
│   │   │       ├── jumpstarter_controller.go  # Main reconciler
│   │   │       ├── endpoints/       # Endpoint handling (routes, ingress, etc.)
│   │   │       └── rbac.go          # RBAC reconciliation
│   │   ├── config/                  # Kustomize configurations
│   │   │   ├── crd/bases/          # Generated CRD YAML
│   │   │   └── samples/            # Sample CR files
│   │   ├── bundle/                  # OLM bundle manifests
│   │   ├── test/e2e/               # E2E tests
│   │   └── Makefile                # Operator-specific make targets
├── api/                            # Jumpstarter core CRDs (Client, Exporter, Lease, etc.)
├── internal/                       # Controller business logic
│   └── config/                     # Config structs used by controller
└── Makefile                        # Top-level controller make targets

Key Files

  • api/v1alpha1/jumpstarter_types.go: Defines the Jumpstarter CRD spec and status
  • internal/controller/jumpstarter/jumpstarter_controller.go: Main reconciliation logic
  • internal/controller/jumpstarter/jumpstarter_controller.go:buildConfig(): Translates CRD spec to internal config format for ConfigMaps

Development Workflow

After Modifying CRD Types

When you change jumpstarter_types.go, you MUST regenerate code:

cd controller/deploy/operator
make manifests generate

This will:

  1. Regenerate CRD YAML in config/crd/bases/
  2. Regenerate DeepCopy methods in zz_generated.deepcopy.go

Building

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 2d ago First seen · 185 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 43603442d23d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

working-with-operator is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter (214 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,385 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.