holmesgpt

holmesgpt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,068 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for implementing HolmesGPT, an AI troubleshooting agent for Kubernetes and other cloud-based systems. Kubernetes runs containerized applications, while observability tools provide information about their health and behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and configure HolmesGPT, investigate Kubernetes or monitoring alerts, find likely root causes, connect tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and set up integrations with alerting or collaboration systems.
Why use it?
It helps investigate alerts and cluster problems by connecting troubleshooting to live monitoring data. Its documented read-only access supports investigation without changing production systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to install and configure HolmesGPT, investigate Kubernetes or monitoring alerts, find likely root causes, connect tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and set up integrations with alerting or collaboration systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/holmesgpt
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.

Any agent
npx skills add julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill holmesgpt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,068 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00090 $0.02068
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01034
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00207

Measured 10d ago against content hash b8e81813c825, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

holmesgpt scanned grade C with 2 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 10d 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.

-v ~/.kube/config:/root/.kube/config \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://{{ service_name }}.{{ namespace }}.svc.cluster.local/health
skills/holmesgpt/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HolmesGPT Skill

AI-powered troubleshooting for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.

Overview

HolmesGPT is a CNCF Sandbox project that connects AI models with live observability data to investigate infrastructure problems, find root causes, and suggest remediations. It operates with read-only access and respects RBAC permissions, making it safe for production environments.

Quick Reference

Topic Reference
Installation references/installation.md
Configuration references/configuration.md
Data Sources references/data-sources.md
Commands references/commands.md
Troubleshooting references/troubleshooting.md
HTTP API references/http-api.md
Integrations references/integrations.md

Key Features

  • Root Cause Analysis: Investigates alerts and cluster issues
  • Multi-Source Integration: 30+ toolsets (K8s, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Alert Integration: AlertManager, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Jira, Slack
  • Interactive Mode: Troubleshooting with /run, /show, /clear
  • Custom Toolsets: Extend with proprietary tools via YAML configuration
  • CI/CD Integration: Automated deployment failure investigation

Installation Quick Start

CLI (Homebrew)

brew tap robusta-dev/homebrew-holmesgpt
brew install holmesgpt
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-key"  # or OPENAI_API_KEY
holmes ask "what pods are unhealthy?"

Kubernetes (Helm)

helm repo add robusta https://robusta-charts.storage.googleapis.com
helm repo update
helm install holmesgpt robusta/holmes -f values.yaml

Docker

docker run -it --net=host \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY="your-key" \
  -v ~/.kube/config:/root/.kube/config \
  us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/genuine-flight-317411/devel/holmes \
  ask "what pods are crashing?"

Essential Commands

# Basic investigation
holmes ask "what pods are unhealthy and why?"
holmes ask "why is my deployment failing?"

# Interactive mode
holmes ask "investigate issue" --interactive

# Alert investigation
holmes investigate alertmanager --alertmanager-url http://localhost:9093
holmes investigate pagerduty --pagerduty-api-key <KEY> --update

# With file context
holmes ask "summarize the key points" -f ./logs.txt

# CI/CD integration
holmes ask "why did deployment fail?" --destination slack --slack-token <TOKEN>

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 230 lines · 90 tokens per session scan C b8e81813c825

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holmesgpt is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,068 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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