expose-zymtrace-backend

expose-zymtrace-backend is a skill for Claude Code from zystem-io/zymtrace-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (2,842 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for exposing an already-installed zymtrace backend outside its Kubernetes cluster. It configures a NodePort, load balancer, or ingress, with optional TLS, using Helm and Kubernetes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to expose a running zymtrace backend through NodePort, LoadBalancer, or NGINX or AWS ALB ingress. It is not for installing the backend itself.
Why use it?
It provides an external entry point for the zymtrace gateway, which carries the user interface, data ingestion, and database-related HTTP traffic. It also checks that the backend and required command-line tools exist before changing configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the zymtrace plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to expose a running zymtrace backend through NodePort, LoadBalancer, or NGINX or AWS ALB ingress. It is not for installing the backend itself.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add zystem-io/zymtrace-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install zymtrace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zymtrace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,842 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00160 $0.02842
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.01421
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00284

Measured 11d ago against content hash ab1651b8f079, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expose-zymtrace-backend scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify-exposure.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

ERROR: ALB returns HTTP 464 to your `curl` — you set `backend-protocol: GRPC` instead of `backend-protocol: HTTP` + `backend-protocol-version: HTTP2`. Fix and re-apply.
zymtrace/skills/expose-zymtrace-backend/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expose zymtrace Backend

Helps the user expose the gateway service externally. The zymtrace gateway is the single external surface — UI, ingest (gRPC), and symdb (HTTP) all flow through it.

Deep details (LoadBalancer one-liner, ACM cert lookup, cert-manager) live in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/expose-zymtrace-backend/reference.md.

Backend must already be installed (helm list -A | grep -i zymtrace shows a release). If not, use install-zymtrace-backend.

Sources of truth

Pre-flight: verify the tools

Claude runs
helm version --short && kubectl version --client
kubectl cluster-info | head -2
helm list -A | grep -i zymtrace
kubectl get ingressclass

If helm/kubectl are missing → point to install docs; do not install them. If no zymtrace release exists → wrong skill, route to install-zymtrace-backend.

Pre-resolve what you can

Resolve namespace + release name first. Recommended defaults zymtrace / backend; for an existing release use its namespace and name. Full policy: shared/conventions.md. Commands use <NS> and <REL> as placeholders.

Variable Resolve by
Existing release helm list -A | grep -i zymtrace (one match → use it; multiple → ask)
Current values (so we layer onto them) helm get values <REL> -n <NS> > current-values.yaml
Available ingress controllers kubectl get ingressclass (alb / nginx / traefik)
AWS LBC installed? kubectl get deploy -n kube-system aws-load-balancer-controller
Cloud / region (for ACM cert lookup) kubectl config current-context → ARN parts; or aws configure get region
Existing ingress in this NS kubectl get ingress -n <NS>

Things you must ask:

  • Which exposure mode (table below)?
  • Hostname (for ingress paths).
  • TLS source (ACM cert ARN for ALB / cert-manager issuer for NGINX / existing TLS secret).

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 197 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A ab1651b8f079

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expose-zymtrace-backend is a skill published in the GitHub repository zystem-io/zymtrace-skills (5 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,842 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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