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.
npx skills add kurtosis-tech/kurtosis --skill engine-managegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosisWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00054 | $0.00565 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00282 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00113 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00056 |
Grade A, and why
engine-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 9d 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.
What it actually says
Engine Manage
Manage the Kurtosis engine server lifecycle.
Status
kurtosis engine status
Shows whether the engine is running and its version.
Start
# Start with default settings
kurtosis engine start
# Start with debug images
kurtosis --debug-mode engine start
On Kubernetes, the engine runs as a pod in a kurtosis-engine-* namespace. You also need to run kurtosis gateway to access it from your local machine.
Stop
kurtosis engine stop
Restart
kurtosis engine restart
Equivalent to stop + start. Useful after changing cluster settings or upgrading.
View logs
kurtosis engine logs
Dumps engine server logs. Useful for diagnosing startup failures or API errors.
Docker vs Kubernetes
# Check which backend is active
kurtosis cluster get
# Switch to Docker
kurtosis cluster set docker
kurtosis engine restart
# Switch to Kubernetes
kurtosis cluster set kubernetes
kurtosis engine restart
kurtosis gateway # Required for k8s
Engine on Kubernetes
When running on Kubernetes:
# The engine runs in its own namespace
kubectl get ns | grep kurtosis-engine
# Check engine pod
kubectl get pods -n <engine-namespace>
# View engine logs directly
kubectl logs <engine-pod> -n <engine-namespace>
# Start the gateway (required for local CLI to reach k8s engine)
kurtosis gateway &
Common issues
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
No Kurtosis engine is running |
Run kurtosis engine start |
Engine starts but engine status shows nothing (k8s) |
Start the gateway: kurtosis gateway |
| Version mismatch warning | kurtosis engine restart to match CLI version |
| Engine start hangs (k8s) | Check pods: kubectl get pods -A | grep kurtosis |
| Old engine blocking new start | kurtosis engine stop then clean namespaces |
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 99 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 34a34b8b3d14
engine-manage is a skill published in the GitHub repository kurtosis-tech/kurtosis (551 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 565 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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