linux-persistence

linux-persistence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AeonDave/malskill. It costs 34 tokens per session (3,102 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A Linux audit tool for finding signs that software or an attacker could survive reboots or remain active over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review persistence risks, validate suspicious indicators, remove unsafe configuration, and document remediation.
Why use it?
It checks common persistence locations such as scheduled jobs, services, SSH, authentication modules, and dynamic-library settings.

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 review persistence risks, validate suspicious indicators, remove unsafe configuration, and document remediation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aeondave/malskill/linux-persistence
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 AeonDave/malskill --skill linux-persistence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AeonDave/malskill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 linux-persistence

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,102 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.
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 $0.00034 $0.03102
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01551
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00310

Measured 5d ago against content hash 280b49ea3e0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

linux-persistence 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 5d 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 rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

# Service account can now sudo bash without password

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

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

echo "ssh-rsa AAAA..." >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

offensive-tools/linux/linux-persistence/SKILL.md · 507 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 507 lines · 34 tokens per session scan B 280b49ea3e0c

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linux-persistence is a skill published in the GitHub repository AeonDave/malskill (18 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 3,102 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B 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 2026-09-03.

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