template-catalog

A guide for finding and installing ready-made Control Plane templates for common infrastructure such as databases, caches, message queues, search services, and gateways. The templates are packaged deployments built with Helm, a tool for installing Kubernetes applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to browse, inspect, install, upgrade, or remove templates for PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, and similar services.
Why use it?
It avoids assembling related workloads, storage, credentials, and network rules by hand, which can lead to missing backups, exposed databases, or single-instance deployments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/controlplane-com/ai-plugin/template-catalog
Any agent
npx skills add controlplane-com/ai-plugin --skill template-catalog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/controlplane-com/ai-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,724 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 $0.00049 $0.02724
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00272

Measured 2d ago against content hash c7e2800f288b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-catalog 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.

plugins/cpln/skills/template-catalog/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Template Catalog

Tool availability: preview_template (dry-run) and rollback_template are in the full MCP toolset; browse_templates, get_template, install_template, upgrade_template, uninstall_template, list_installed_templates, and get_installed_template are in core. If a full tool is not advertised, reconnect the MCP server with ?toolsets=full or use the cpln helm CLI fallback.

The Template Catalog ships production-tested charts (Helm under the hood) for databases, caches, queues, brokers, search, gateways, and more — persistent storage wired up, credentials generated as Control Plane secrets, a sane firewall posture, and HA variants where they matter. For any common component the catalog template is the default recommendation, not the fallback: hand-rolled workload + volumeset + secret + firewall stacks routinely ship without backups, with a public database, or single-replica. Lead with the template, and move to a custom workload only when the user has a hard reason — an unusual extension, a legacy image they must reuse, or a feature the template doesn't expose. Template-first is also enforced by the operating guide's skill router.

Find the right template

browse_templates returns the live catalog — name, category, latest version, a "creates its own GVC" flag, and description. It is the source of truth for what exists; the table below is only the common asks. Filter with a substring (e.g. postgres), then call get_template <name> for the version list, prerequisites, and an example values.yaml to copy.

Need Templates
PostgreSQL postgres (single + backup), postgres-highly-available (Patroni failover), pgedge (active-active multi-master), postgis (geospatial)
MySQL-compatible mysql, mariadb, tidb (distributed)
Distributed SQL cockroach, tidb
Document / NoSQL mongodb (single), mongodb-cluster (replica set), cassandra
Analytics / columnar clickhouse
Cache / KV redis (replica + Sentinel), redis-cluster (sharded), redis-multi-location (cross-GVC), etcd
Streaming / queues kafka, redpanda, rabbitmq, nats, cpln-task-runner
Search / vector manticore, opensearch, elasticsearch, weaviate
Gateway / WAF / VPN nginx, tyk, coraza, tailscale
Storage / AI / LLM minio (S3), ollama, langfuse
Auth / dev / ops fusionauth, dbeaver, airflow, ess, secret-env-var-syncer, otel-collector

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A c7e2800f288b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-catalog is a skill published in the GitHub repository controlplane-com/ai-plugin (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,724 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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