vps-starter

vps-starter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 43COLLEGE/43-Agent-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (4,004 once invoked), scanned D, original, no licence file.

A beginner's guide to setting up and maintaining a VPS, which is a rented virtual server. It covers buying one, connecting over SSH, securing the system, configuring a firewall, and handling routine maintenance on Mac or Windows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up a new VPS, make the first SSH connection, apply basic security, configure a firewall, and learn day-to-day server maintenance.
Why use it?
It guides first-time users through the server basics that often cause confusion or security problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to set up a new VPS, make the first SSH connection, apply basic security, configure a firewall, and learn day-to-day server maintenance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter
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 43COLLEGE/43-Agent-skills --skill vps-starter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/43COLLEGE/43-Agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 vps-starter

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for vps-starter

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/43college/43-agent-skills/vps-starter.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,004 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00096 $0.04004
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02002
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00801
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00400

Measured 11d ago against content hash 817d9ef0bed8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

vps-starter scanned grade D 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 11d 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.

加 sudo 权限:

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- Mac / Linux:`~/.ssh/id_ed25519`(私钥)和 `~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub`(公钥)
vps-starter/SKILL.md · 313 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 313 lines · 96 tokens per session scan D 817d9ef0bed8

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vps-starter is a skill published in the GitHub repository 43COLLEGE/43-Agent-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 4,004 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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