open-internet

open-internet is a command for coding agents from xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,791 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A Mac command for setting up and maintaining a private server connection for internet access. It covers buying, configuring, connecting to, and checking the server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up, checking, fixing, and configuring a client for a private internet connection.
Why use it?
It organizes a server setup that otherwise requires several separate steps and decisions.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the mac-it-guy-pro plugin — 8 skills, 12 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/open-internet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro

Or install mac-it-guy-pro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 12 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for open-internet

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/open-internet.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/open-internet)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/open-internet"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/open-internet.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,791 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.01791
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00179

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1c40b3cec38e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

open-internet scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Server access is root over ssh.** That is normal for a fresh VPS and is not the same as running sudo on the user's Mac.
commands/open-internet.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open Internet — your own private connection

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/open-internet/SKILL.md first — it holds the current protocol recommendation, the decision logic, and the boundaries. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/it-core/SKILL.md for the safety contract and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/machine-profile/SKILL.md for the Private Connection schema you will write. Read ~/ITGuy/machine.md if it exists.

This is the one mac-it-guy-pro workflow that touches a machine other than the user's own. Two rules follow from that:

  • The guard hook protects this Mac, not the server. Nothing stops a destructive command on the far end. Treat every remote command as unguarded: read it before running it, and never run a destructive one on a server that already works.
  • Server access is root over ssh. That is normal for a fresh VPS and is not the same as running sudo on the user's Mac.

Resolve the subcommand from $ARGUMENTS against the profile's Private ConnectionStatus field:

$ARGUMENTS Route to
setup, check, fix, client that subcommand
empty, and no Private Connection section setup
empty, and Status: working check
empty, and Status: blocked fix
empty, and Status: needs setup setup, resuming from what already exists
anything else non-empty treat as a problem description: say which four subcommands exist, name the one you think they mean, and confirm before running it

If setup is requested when a Private Connection already exists, do not silently rebuild. Offer three choices: check the existing one, replace it, or add a second path alongside it (the two-architecture setup in the skill's decision rule — direct for speed, CDN-fronted for resilience, with client-side failover). Adding a second path re-runs Steps 3–7 for the new server only and sets Architecture: both.

setup

Step 1: The honest briefing — before any money is spent

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/open-internet/references/legal-and-limits.md and present its substance in the short plain-language form shown there: the legal reality where the user is, the personal-use versus selling-access distinction, the services that do not officially serve their region, and the upkeep expectation. Ask once whether they want to proceed. If they decline, stop cleanly and log the visit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 105 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B 1c40b3cec38e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open-internet is a command published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,791 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.