processes

A server diagnostic command that examines running processes on server-1, including their memory, CPU, files, threads, and relationships to other processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate high memory or CPU use, open-file limits, slowdowns, zombie processes, blocked processes, and MySQL resource usage.
Why use it?
It helps find processes consuming too many resources, leaking memory, using swap, or behaving abnormally. This reduces the need to inspect several process metrics separately.

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/processes
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 382 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 $0.00382
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 334346a8b4e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

processes 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/processes.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Process Analysis

Execute Netdata's processes function to analyze running processes on server-1:

  1. Run the processes function with:

    • Sort by Memory (descending)
    • Limit to top 20 processes
    • Include all columns for analysis
  2. Analyze top memory consumers:

    • Identify processes using >1 GB RAM
    • Check for memory leaks (growing over time)
    • Flag processes using swap
    • Compare to expected baselines
  3. Analyze top CPU consumers:

    • Sort by CPU usage
    • Identify runaway processes
    • Check CPU context switches
    • Compare user vs system time
  4. Check file descriptor usage:

    • Processes with high FD counts
    • Approaching FD limits
    • Socket vs file vs pipe breakdown
  5. Review process hierarchy:

    • Parent-child relationships (PPID)
    • Process categories (from apps_groups.conf)
    • Container process isolation
  6. Identify concerning patterns:

    • Zombie processes
    • Processes in uninterruptible sleep (D state)
    • High page fault rates
    • Excessive I/O wait
  7. MySQL process analysis (PID 1042433):

    • Memory: RSS, Virtual, Swap
    • CPU: User vs System time
    • I/O: Read/write operations
    • Threads: Count and state
    • FDs: Open file descriptors
  8. Known processes to check:

    • mysqld (PID 1042433) - 6.4 GB RSS, 484 MB swap
    • sshd - 79-96 threads (12.5% anomaly rate)
    • containerd - CPU spikes (3.3% anomaly)

Provide recommendations for:

  • Processes to investigate further
  • Processes to restart
  • Memory limit adjustments
  • CPU affinity optimizations
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 · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 334346a8b4e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

processes 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 382 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.