| name | sealos-canvas |
| description | Run a local read-only HTML topology UI for a project already deployed by Sealos Skills and return a localhost URL. Use when the user asks to view, inspect, visualize, render, open, or run a local canvas for deployed Sealos resources, mentions ".sealos", Sealos deployment state, Kubernetes resources, topology, resource graph, localhost UI, or invokes "/sealos-canvas". |
Sealos Canvas
Overview
Render the current repository's deployed Sealos resources as a locally hosted HTML canvas. This skill is view-only: it reads .sealos/state.json and Kubernetes resources, starts a temporary 127.0.0.1 UI server, and returns the local URL to the user.
Hard Rules
- Do not deploy, update, restart, patch, delete, or apply resources.
- Only use read commands such as
kubectl get and kubectl config view.
- Use the Sealos kubeconfig at
~/.sealos/kubeconfig.
- Do not display Secret data or full ConfigMap contents.
- If the project has no
.sealos/state.json with last_deploy, stop and tell the user to deploy first with /sealos-deploy.
- If kubeconfig or live resource access is unavailable, report the script message and stop.
Workflow
1. Resolve the project
Use the current working directory unless the user provides a local path:
WORK_DIR="$(pwd)"
Confirm this is the intended repository before generating output.
2. Start the local canvas UI
Run:
node "<SKILL_DIR>/scripts/generate-canvas.mjs" --work-dir "$WORK_DIR"
Keep this process running while the user is viewing the canvas. The script writes JSON to stdout after the local server starts.
If ok is false, show the message to the user and end the flow. Do not run fallback discovery, do not deploy, and do not create any other artifact.
If ok is true, use local_url as the primary output.
3. Open the local URL
Open the returned URL with the browser:
http://127.0.0.1:<port>/index.html
Then summarize:
- local UI URL
- app URL
- node count
- edge count
Stop the server process when the user is done viewing the page or when the current task ends.
Output Contract
Success:
{
"ok": true,
"local_url": "http://127.0.0.1:63220/index.html",
"html_path": "/abs/path/.sealos/canvas/index.html",
"node_count": 5,
"edge_count": 4,
"app_url": "https://example.sealos.run"
}
Stop condition:
{
"ok": false,
"reason": "not_deployed",
"message": "This project has not been deployed by Sealos Skills yet. Run /sealos-deploy first, then run /sealos-canvas again."
}
Visual Target
The locally hosted UI should feel like a topology canvas, not a table:
- Top bar with app name, namespace, deployed app URL, generated time, and local UI status.
- Dark dotted-grid canvas with deterministic resource-card layout.
- Resource cards for app, ingress, services, pods, config, secrets, and volumes.
- Dashed or solid SVG connector lines between related resources.
- PVC/volume references attached as strips on the related card when possible.
- Detail panel for the selected resource.
- Events panel with recent related Kubernetes events.
- Status colors for ready, sleeping, warning, and failed states.
- Lightweight pan, zoom, fit, and reset controls.
Theme extraction is best effort. Reuse the user's repo accent color, font, and radius when easy to detect, but preserve operational readability.
Script
scripts/generate-canvas.mjs is the deterministic entrypoint. It:
- Reads
.sealos/state.json.
- Verifies
~/.sealos/kubeconfig and kubectl.
- Reads live namespace resources with
kubectl get.
- Builds a sanitized
canvasModel with app, nodes, edges, events, and theme.
- Renders
assets/canvas-template.html into an internal .sealos/canvas/index.html cache.
- Starts a temporary local HTTP server and prints
local_url.
Use --no-serve only for tests or CI checks that should generate HTML without keeping a server process alive.