by-deploy-compute

by-deploy-compute is a skill for Claude Code from 001TMF/blatant-why. It costs 5 tokens per session (8,069 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A setup guide for running BY’s protein-design and structure-prediction tools on hardware you control or rent, such as a local GPU, RunPod, Modal, or an institutional cluster.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for installing missing tools, preparing rented GPU environments, configuring Modal jobs, and creating SLURM or PBS submissions for cluster computers.
Why use it?
It helps make the required tools available without relying on a managed provider by default.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It is for installing missing tools, preparing rented GPU environments, configuring Modal jobs, and creating SLURM or PBS submissions for cluster computers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/001tmf/blatant-why/by-deploy-compute
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 001TMF/blatant-why --skill by-deploy-compute
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/001TMF/blatant-why

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 5 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,069 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 244
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 160
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 204
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 309
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00005 $0.08069
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.04034
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.01614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00807

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6111808edea8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

by-deploy-compute scanned grade B with 2 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_gpu_env.sh, scripts/runpod_deploy.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

- ❌ Do NOT use `sudo pip install` — always conda env or virtualenv

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -X POST "https://abc123-8000.proxy.runpod.net/predict" \
templates/.claude/skills/by-deploy-compute/SKILL.md · 446 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 446 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BY Deploy Compute Skill

BY is a local-first agent. The default compute provider is "local" (see .by/config.jsoncompute.default_provider). This skill teaches you how to stand up each design and folding tool on hardware the user owns or pays for directly — a personal GPU workstation, a RunPod pod, a Modal app, or a generic SLURM/PBS cluster — so campaigns run without depending on a managed cloud provider.

Tamarind remains available as a cloud fallback when local compute is unavailable. It is never the default; users opt in explicitly via compute.default_provider = "tamarind".

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you have:

  • A fresh BY workstation that needs Protenix / BoltzGen / PXDesign installed for the first time
  • An existing local install missing a tool (e.g., ThermoMPNN, RFAntibody, ImmuneBuilder) that an active campaign now requires
  • A RunPod account and want a per-tool deployment recipe with pod template, persistent volumes, and a working entry_command
  • A Modal account and want a modal.Image recipe with HuggingFace secret wiring and weight-cache volumes
  • An institutional HPC (SLURM or PBS) and want a portable submission script that loads CUDA modules, activates a conda env, and runs the tool
  • A user migrating away from Tamarind — concrete, copy-pasteable replacement deployments for every tool they currently call
  • A failed local invocation that needs to be diagnosed as a deployment issue (missing weights, wrong CUDA, OOM) vs a tool-internal bug

Do NOT use this skill when:

  • You just need to run a tool that is already installed — invoke the engine skill (protenix, boltzgen, pxdesign) directly.
  • You are debugging tool-internal results (low ipSAE, high RMSD) — use by-scoring or by-failure-diagnosis. Deployment is upstream of result quality.
  • The user has explicitly chosen Tamarind (compute.default_provider = "tamarind") — call the Tamarind MCP path; don't try to deploy locally first.
  • The campaign is already running and just needs a status check — that's by-campaign-manager or /by:watch.
  • You need to allocate a campaign directory — that is by-session / by-campaign-manager.
  • The question is "which tool should I use" — that is by-design-workflow; deployment is per-tool plumbing, not strategy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 446 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 446 lines · 5 tokens per session scan B 6111808edea8

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by-deploy-compute is a skill published in the GitHub repository 001TMF/blatant-why (114 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 8,069 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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