Public Preview: Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS

Users often face security and manageability challenges when diagnostic agents inherit broad user permissions, such as cluster-admin rights, and when each user must deploy their own instance. Cluster mode for the agentic CLI for AKS, now in public preview, brings expert-level AI diagnostics directly into your AKS cluster with tighter security controls and faster performance. This gives teams a shared, always‑available AI assistant that understands real cluster state, correlates signals across Kubernetes and Azure, and can guide troubleshooting or remediation using live data pulled in a secure and managed way. Cluster mode provides the following benefits over the existing client-side experience:

• Fine-grained RBAC control with Azure and Kubernetes RBAC
• Shared AKS Agent instances deployed to a namespace of your choosing
• Faster CVE detection and fixes with a centrally managed image, sourced from MCR

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