portal

portal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kurtosis-tech/kurtosis. It costs 40 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Commands for managing Kurtosis Portal, a local helper that connects your computer to Kurtosis environments running on a remote server. It is used with remote contexts, not ordinary local Docker setups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, stop, and check the Portal daemon, configure remote contexts, and recover from crashes or port conflicts.
Why use it?
It provides the local connection needed to work with remote Kurtosis servers and helps diagnose when that connection is unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to start, stop, and check the Portal daemon, configure remote contexts, and recover from crashes or port conflicts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/portal
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 kurtosis-tech/kurtosis --skill portal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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 $0.00040 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 11d ago against content hash 120110c7a792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

portal 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/portal/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Portal

Manage the Kurtosis Portal daemon for remote context access.

What is Portal?

Kurtosis Portal is a lightweight local daemon that enables communication with Kurtosis enclaves running on a remote Kurtosis server. It's only needed when using remote contexts — not required for local Docker or direct Kubernetes access.

Start

kurtosis portal start

Check status

kurtosis portal status

Stop

kurtosis portal stop

When you need it

Portal is used with remote Kurtosis contexts. If you're using:

  • Local Docker: No portal needed
  • Direct Kubernetes: Use kurtosis gateway instead
  • Remote Kurtosis server: Use portal + remote context

Remote contexts

# List contexts
kurtosis context ls

# Add a remote context
kurtosis context add <context-name>

# Switch to remote context
kurtosis context set <context-name>

# Start portal for the remote context
kurtosis portal start

Troubleshooting

Symptom Cause Fix
Portal won't start Port conflict or stale process Run kurtosis portal stop then kurtosis portal start
Status shows not running Portal crashed or was killed Restart with kurtosis portal start
Services unreachable via portal Portal not started for current context Run kurtosis portal status to check, then kurtosis portal start
Connection refused errors Wrong context or portal not needed Verify context with kurtosis context ls — local Docker doesn't need portal
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 · 67 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 120110c7a792

Subscribe to this mod's changes

portal is a skill published in the GitHub repository kurtosis-tech/kurtosis (551 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 429 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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