istio-traffic-management

istio-traffic-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NOMARJ/sigil. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,774 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of istio-traffic-management, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Istio, a service mesh that controls how services send traffic to one another. It covers routing, load balancing, retries, circuit breakers, traffic mirroring, fault injection, and canary releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route requests, balance load, run canary or blue-green deployments, mirror traffic for testing, configure retries and circuit breakers, or inject faults for chaos testing.
Why use it?
It lets you change and test service traffic without rewriting each application. Resilience rules and controlled rollouts help limit failures and expose new versions gradually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to route requests, balance load, run canary or blue-green deployments, mirror traffic for testing, configure retries and circuit breakers, or inject faults for chaos testing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nomarj/sigil/istio-traffic-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add NOMARJ/sigil --skill istio-traffic-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NOMARJ/sigil

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 1,774 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.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01774
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00887
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00177

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6631d65475e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

istio-traffic-management 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to istio-traffic-management — 27 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packs/infra/skills/cloud/istio-traffic-management/SKILL.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Istio Traffic Management

Comprehensive guide to Istio traffic management for production service mesh deployments.

When to Use This Skill

  • Configuring service-to-service routing
  • Implementing canary or blue-green deployments
  • Setting up circuit breakers and retries
  • Load balancing configuration
  • Traffic mirroring for testing
  • Fault injection for chaos engineering

Core Concepts

1. Traffic Management Resources

Resource Purpose Scope
VirtualService Route traffic to destinations Host-based
DestinationRule Define policies after routing Service-based
Gateway Configure ingress/egress Cluster edge
ServiceEntry Add external services Mesh-wide

2. Traffic Flow

Client → Gateway → VirtualService → DestinationRule → Service
                   (routing)        (policies)        (pods)

Templates

Template 1: Basic Routing

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: reviews-route
  namespace: bookinfo
spec:
  hosts:
    - reviews
  http:
    - match:
        - headers:
            end-user:
              exact: jason
      route:
        - destination:
            host: reviews
            subset: v2
    - route:
        - destination:
            host: reviews
            subset: v1
---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: reviews-destination
  namespace: bookinfo
spec:
  host: reviews
  subsets:
    - name: v1
      labels:
        version: v1
    - name: v2
      labels:
        version: v2
    - name: v3
      labels:
        version: v3

Template 2: Canary Deployment

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  name: my-service-canary
spec:
  hosts:
    - my-service
  http:
    - route:
        - destination:
            host: my-service
            subset: stable
          weight: 90
        - destination:
            host: my-service
            subset: canary
          weight: 10
---
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
  name: my-service-dr
spec:
  host: my-service
  trafficPolicy:
    connectionPool:
      tcp:
        maxConnections: 100
      http:
        h2UpgradePolicy: UPGRADE
        http1MaxPendingRequests: 100
        http2MaxRequests: 1000
  subsets:
    - name: stable
      labels:
        version: stable
    - name: canary
      labels:
        version: canary

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 328 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 6631d65475e3

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istio-traffic-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository NOMARJ/sigil (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,774 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to istio-traffic-management, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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