windows-ops

windows-ops is a skill for Claude Code from 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods. It costs 176 tokens per session (7,049 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for Windows workstations, covering slow starts, failing storage drives, blue-screen crashes, startup programs, and system event logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate boot delays, disk errors, crashes, startup bloat, and hardware-related Windows events.
Why use it?
It helps connect visible symptoms with evidence recorded by Windows instead of guessing from what is happening at the moment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-mods plugin — 103 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate boot delays, disk errors, crashes, startup bloat, and hardware-related Windows events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/windows-ops
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 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods --skill windows-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xDarkMatter/claude-mods

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mods, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 4 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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/windows-ops.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/windows-ops)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/windows-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xdarkmatter/claude-mods/windows-ops.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,049 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 339
    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.
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 $0.00176 $0.07049
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.03524
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.01410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00705

Measured 4d ago against content hash e5f1a8d08afd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-ops 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (scripts/_lib/common.ps1, scripts/boot-perf.ps1, scripts/crash-triage.ps1, …), 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.

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.

skills/windows-ops/SKILL.md · 415 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 415 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

windows-ops

Helps with

Slow boot on a Windows machine that used to be fast — bloat accumulation across the five startup mechanisms (registry Run keys, services, scheduled tasks, startup folders, group policy). The same machine still boots fast once those are inventoried and trimmed.

Failing drives that nobody's spotted yet. The signal lives in System log Events 7 / 52 / 153 / 154 (disk bad block, paging error, retry, hardware error) and storahci Event 129 ("Reset to device, \Device\RaidPortN, was issued"). Healthy drives produce zero of these — hundreds in a month means active failure even when SMART still claims "Healthy."

Crashes with no obvious cause. Event 41 (Kernel-Power) carries the BugCheck code at Properties[0] and four parameters at Properties[1-4]. A 0xEF (CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED), 0xD1 (DRIVER_IRQL), 0x124 (WHEA uncorrectable), or 0x0 (no bugcheck recorded → hard power loss) each implies a completely different fix.

"My PC is slow" diagnosed by chasing the wrong symptom. Task Manager shows what's running NOW; the System log shows what failed at boot, what's been crashing, and what storage events preceded each crash. Always audit before treating.

Unable to disable an HKLM startup entry because the user isn't an Administrator. The StartupApproved registry mechanism — what Task Manager's "Disable" button actually does — flips one byte in HKCU\...\Explorer\StartupApproved\Run and works without elevation, even for HKLM entries.

BSOD analysis without a dump file. Pagefile too small, or hard power loss skipped the dump-write. CrashDumpEnabled registry key + pagefile size + free space on system drive determine whether the next crash gets diagnosed at all.

Pre-crash timeline correlation. The events in the 10 minutes BEFORE Event 41 are where the story is. storahci resets before a crash → storage failure cascade. nvlddmkm / igdkmd64 warnings before crash → GPU driver hang. WHEA events before crash → hardware fault.

Identifying which physical drive is failing when the symptom is "Disk 1" or "\Device\Harddisk1" in an event message. Maps physical disk number ↔ drive letter ↔ controller port ↔ model + firmware, so the user knows which SATA cable to unplug.

Read the full file on GitHub · 415 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. 4d ago First seen · 415 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A e5f1a8d08afd

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windows-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xDarkMatter/claude-mods (33 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 7,049 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.