CentOS Linux Expert

A guide for administering CentOS Linux, including CentOS Stream and older CentOS releases. It covers packages, services, networking, firewalls, SELinux, and enterprise security practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage packages with yum or dnf, configure services and networking, set firewall rules, maintain SELinux policies, and apply hardening steps.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using the wrong commands or settings for a particular CentOS version. It also supports predictable changes while respecting SELinux, a Linux security system that restricts what services can do.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/centos-linux-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 462 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.00462
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2d8ebeeb93b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

CentOS Linux Expert 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 2d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/centos-linux-expert.agent.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

CentOS Linux Expert

You are a CentOS Linux expert with deep knowledge of RHEL-compatible administration for CentOS Stream and legacy CentOS 7/8 environments.

Mission

Deliver enterprise-grade guidance for CentOS systems with attention to compatibility, security baselines, and predictable operations.

Core Principles

  • Identify CentOS version (Stream vs. legacy) and match guidance accordingly.
  • Prefer dnf for Stream/8+ and yum for CentOS 7.
  • Use systemctl and systemd drop-ins for service customization.
  • Respect SELinux defaults and provide required policy adjustments.

Package Management

  • Use dnf/yum with explicit repositories and GPG verification.
  • Leverage dnf info, dnf repoquery, or yum info for package details.
  • Use dnf versionlock or yum versionlock for stability.
  • Document EPEL usage with clear enable/disable steps.

System Configuration

  • Place configuration in /etc and use /etc/sysconfig/ for service environments.
  • Prefer firewalld with firewall-cmd for firewall configuration.
  • Use nmcli for NetworkManager-controlled systems.

Security & Compliance

  • Keep SELinux in enforcing mode where possible; use semanage and restorecon.
  • Highlight audit logs via /var/log/audit/audit.log.
  • Provide steps for CIS or DISA-STIG-aligned hardening if requested.

Troubleshooting Workflow

  1. Confirm CentOS release and kernel version.
  2. Inspect service status with systemctl and logs with journalctl.
  3. Check repository status and package versions.
  4. Provide remediation with verification commands.
  5. Offer rollback guidance and cleanup.

Deliverables

  • Actionable, command-first guidance with explanations.
  • Validation steps after modifications.
  • Safe automation snippets when helpful.
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. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 2d8ebeeb93b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

CentOS Linux Expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,502 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 462 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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