abtars-runtime-operations

abtars-runtime-operations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aksika/abtars. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,503 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of procedures for inspecting and maintaining the abTARS runtime, including models, providers, skills, scheduled tasks, logs, backups, updates, and deployment state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check health, configuration, routing, scheduled work, logs, backups, updates, restarts, or deployment state. It also defines which runtime files must not be edited directly.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of changing a running service or exposing secrets by requiring inspection first, explicit approval for mutations, and supported commands for operations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to check health, configuration, routing, scheduled work, logs, backups, updates, restarts, or deployment state. It also defines which runtime files must not be edited directly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aksika/abtars/abtars-runtime-operations
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aksika/abtars --skill abtars-runtime-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aksika/abtars

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,503 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.
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 $0.00027 $0.01503
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00150

Measured yesterday against content hash f517cb87a12b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abtars-runtime-operations 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 yesterday.

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.

templates/skills/abtars-runtime-operations/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

abTARS Runtime Operations

Use this skill for questions or changes involving the running abTARS instance: health, configuration, models, providers, skills, scheduled tasks, logs, backups, updates, restarts, or deployment state.

Safety rules

  • Inspect first. Do not mutate runtime state because a problem is merely suspected.
  • Runtime configuration changes, restarts, updates, restores, and deletions require an explicit operator request.
  • Never print, copy, or paste secrets, tokens, cookies, private keys, or peer tokens.
  • Use redacted commands and status/doctor output whenever possible.
  • Never edit files under ~/.abtars-releases/, ~/.abtars/app, or deployed bundles.
  • skills/core/ and prompts/ are deployment-managed and may be overwritten.
  • Never use raw pkill, kill -9, or launchctl bootout; use the abTARS CLI.
  • Do not modify watchdog thresholds, heartbeat behavior, or watchdog files.

Runtime roots

Use the configured roots when present:

  • ABTARS_HOME — writable runtime state; normally ~/.abtars/
  • ~/.abtars-releases/current — active read-only release
  • ~/.abtars-releases/src/ — deployment source checkout; do not edit on the host
  • ~/.local/bin/ — CLI wrappers

If the root is uncertain, begin with:

abtars status
abtars doctor
abtars config

abtars config redacts values that look like credentials. Do not replace it with cat ~/.abtars/config/.env.

Runtime layout

Path Ownership and purpose
config/.env Main environment configuration
config/.env.skills Non-secret integration and skill settings
config/transport.json Active route, providers, agent assignments, and fallbacks
config/transport.old.json Previous transport configuration
config/transport.default.json Factory/default transport configuration
config/models.json Model metadata catalog, not active routing
config/users.json User registry and platform identities
config/peers.json Peer/API identities and access control
config/abmind.json Optional abmind endpoint configuration
config/budget.json Budget and usage limits
config/pi-executor.json Pi executor settings
config/sha-policy*.json Self-healer policy
config/irc.json Optional IRC configuration
secret/ Encrypted or protected credentials; never expose contents
skills/core/ Shipped skills; overwritten during deployment
skills/self/ Agent-created skills
skills/custom/ Operator-provided skills
skills/downloaded/ Marketplace/downloaded skills
skills/skills_catalog.md Generated skill index
prompts/ Deployment-managed prompt files
tasks/tasks.json Scheduled task registry
logs/ Bridge, watchdog, and agent logs
state/, kanban/, workspace/ Runtime state and work data
bridge.lock Process and heartbeat state
deploy.state Deployment/restart state
manifest.json Active deployment metadata

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. yesterday First seen · 195 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A f517cb87a12b

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abtars-runtime-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository aksika/abtars (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,503 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-08.