gateway

gateway is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kurtosis-tech/kurtosis. It costs 57 tokens per session (439 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for connecting the local Kurtosis command-line tool to Kurtosis running in a Kubernetes cluster. The gateway creates local port forwards to the cluster's engine and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, check, restart, or stop the Kurtosis gateway when working with Kubernetes. It is not needed for the Docker backend.
Why use it?
Without this connection, the local command-line tool may report that no engine is running or services may be unreachable even when they are active in Kubernetes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to start, check, restart, or stop the Kurtosis gateway when working with Kubernetes. It is not needed for the Docker backend.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/gateway
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 439 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 $0.00057 $0.00439
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4ff02f94be5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gateway 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.

skills/gateway/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Gateway

The Kurtosis gateway creates local port forwards to the engine and services running in a Kubernetes cluster.

When you need it

The gateway is required when running Kurtosis on Kubernetes. Without it, the local CLI cannot reach the engine pod in the cluster.

Not needed when using Docker backend.

Start the gateway

# Run in the background
kurtosis gateway &

# Or in a separate terminal
kurtosis gateway

Verify it's working

kurtosis engine status

If this returns engine info, the gateway is working. If it says "No Kurtosis engine is running" but you know the engine pod is up, the gateway isn't running.

Stop the gateway

pkill -f "kurtosis gateway"

How it works

The gateway:

  1. Finds the engine pod in the kurtosis-engine-* namespace
  2. Creates a local port forward to the engine's gRPC port
  3. When services are accessed, creates additional port forwards to service pods
  4. Port mappings shown in kurtosis enclave inspect point to localhost via the gateway

Common issues

Symptom Fix
No engine running but engine pod is up Start the gateway: kurtosis gateway &
Gateway crashes or disconnects Restart: pkill -f "kurtosis gateway"; kurtosis gateway &
Port conflicts Kill old gateway first: pkill -f "kurtosis gateway"
Services unreachable after gateway restart Re-inspect enclave for new port mappings
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. 9d ago First seen · 60 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 4ff02f94be5a

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gateway is a skill published in the GitHub repository kurtosis-tech/kurtosis (551 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 439 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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