load

A system-load analysis command that examines how busy a server is across recent time periods and available CPU cores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review load averages, compare load with CPU and I/O metrics, find spikes, inspect active processes, and check CPU pressure.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether high load comes from CPU pressure, waiting on input and output, too many processes, or other system activity.

Command

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 commands/danielbodnar/skills/load
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielbodnar/skills
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 446 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 $0.00000 $0.00446
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00223
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash 3ce19a8db8de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/infra-ops/commands/load.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

System Load Analysis

Analyze system load and identify whether the system is overloaded:

  1. Query system.load metrics:

    • 1-minute load average (recent state)
    • 5-minute load average (short-term trend)
    • 15-minute load average (long-term trend)
    • Historical data for last 24 hours
  2. Calculate load per core:

    • System has 16 cores (from CLAUDE.md)
    • Load/Core ratio (should be <1.0 for healthy)
    • Identify if system is CPU-bound
  3. Correlate load with other metrics:

    • CPU utilization (system.cpu)
    • I/O wait time
    • Process count (system.processes)
    • Context switches (system.ctxt)
  4. Analyze load patterns:

    • Peak load times
    • Load spikes and their causes
    • Correlation with known events (e.g., 21:01 UTC spike to 2.43)
    • Baseline vs current load
  5. Check active processes:

    • Count of processes in run queue
    • system.active_processes metric
    • Processes in uninterruptible sleep (D state)
  6. Review CPU pressure:

    • system.cpu_some_pressure
    • system.cpu_full_pressure
    • Scheduler latency metrics
  7. Known baseline (from CLAUDE.md):

    • Current: 1.16 / 1.18 / 1.21
    • This is healthy for 16 cores (~7% utilization)
    • Peaks observed: 2.62 at 21:01 UTC

Provide analysis:

  • Overall load health (healthy/moderate/high/critical)
  • Load per core percentage
  • Whether CPU is a bottleneck
  • Comparison to memory/swap as bottleneck
  • Load forecast for next few hours
  • Recommended actions if overloaded

Interpretation guide:

  • Load < cores: System healthy
  • Load = cores: System at capacity
  • Load > cores: System overloaded
  • Load >> cores: System severely overloaded

For this system: Load of 1.2 on 16 cores = 7.5% utilization (HEALTHY)

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. yesterday First seen · 58 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3ce19a8db8de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

load is a command published in the GitHub repository danielbodnar/skills (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 446 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.