cluster-manage

cluster-manage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kurtosis-tech/kurtosis. It costs 43 tokens per session (365 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for managing Kurtosis clusters, which are environments where Kurtosis runs isolated development networks or services. It covers Docker and Kubernetes backends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check available clusters, switch between Docker and Kubernetes, restart the Kurtosis engine, configure Kubernetes access, or start the gateway.
Why use it?
It makes it clear which cluster Kurtosis uses and how to switch and verify that setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check available clusters, switch between Docker and Kubernetes, restart the Kurtosis engine, configure Kubernetes access, or start the gateway.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/cluster-manage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kurtosis-tech/kurtosis --skill cluster-manage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 365 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.00365
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 11d ago against content hash b1fdde0f2722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cluster-manage 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 11d 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.

skills/cluster-manage/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Cluster Manage

Switch between Docker and Kubernetes backends for Kurtosis.

Check current cluster

kurtosis cluster get

Returns docker or kubernetes.

List available clusters

kurtosis cluster ls

Switch cluster

# Switch to Docker
kurtosis cluster set docker

# Switch to Kubernetes (uses current kubectl context)
kurtosis cluster set kubernetes

After switching, restart the engine:

kurtosis engine restart

Kubernetes setup

When using Kubernetes:

  1. Ensure kubectl is configured and can reach your cluster:

    kubectl cluster-info
    kubectl get nodes
    
  2. Switch Kurtosis to Kubernetes:

    kurtosis cluster set kubernetes
    kurtosis engine start
    
  3. Start the gateway (required for local CLI to reach the k8s-based engine):

    kurtosis gateway &
    
  4. Verify:

    kurtosis engine status
    

Config file

The cluster setting is stored in the Kurtosis config file:

kurtosis config path

Typically at ~/Library/Application Support/kurtosis/kurtosis-config.yml on macOS.

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. 11d ago First seen · 79 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A b1fdde0f2722

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cluster-manage is a skill published in the GitHub repository kurtosis-tech/kurtosis (551 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 365 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 2026-08-30.

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