Overview
istio-traffic-management is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by wshobson. Its author describes it as: “Configure Istio traffic management including routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and canary deployments. Use when implementing service mesh traffic policies, progressive delivery, or resilience patterns.”. The project has 39k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents`.
What istio-traffic-management does
Comprehensive guide to Istio traffic management for production service mesh deployments.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for istio-traffic-management is organised into these sections:
- When to Use This Skill
- Core Concepts
- 1. Traffic Management Resources
- 2. Traffic Flow
- Templates
- Template 1: Basic Routing
- Template 2: Canary Deployment
- Template 3: Circuit Breaker
- Template 4: Retry and Timeout
- Template 5: Traffic Mirroring
- Template 6: Fault Injection
- Template 7: Ingress Gateway
Installation
Add istio-traffic-management to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agentsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- OpenCode — declared in the repository topics
- GitHub Copilot — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
istio-traffic-management is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in wshobson/agents, an established project with 39,066 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
- Its repository gained 669 GitHub stars over the last 24 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does istio-traffic-management do?
- Configure Istio traffic management including routing, load balancing, circuit breakers, and canary deployments. Use when implementing service mesh traffic policies, progressive delivery, or resilience patterns.
- How do I install istio-traffic-management?
- Run /plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/wshobson/agents before installing.
- Is istio-traffic-management free to use?
- Yes. istio-traffic-management is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does istio-traffic-management work with?
- istio-traffic-management lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does istio-traffic-management come from?
- istio-traffic-management ships inside wshobson/agents, a repository that contains 54 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 39,066 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.