personal-os-setup: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/vm-lab/SKILL.md

vm-lab is a skill for Claude Code from AmineDjeghri/personal-os-setup. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,061 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A helper for starting temporary virtual machines with KVM and QEMU, software that runs another operating system inside a window or isolated environment. It is designed for testing the setup tool without changing the main computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and boot test machines for CachyOS or Ubuntu-related setup work, inspect installation behavior, and try changes in an isolated environment.
Why use it?
It provides a separate test environment for operating-system setup flows, reducing the risk of altering the host system. It also records the required virtualization dependencies and setup limits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is AmineDjeghri/personal-os-setup's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on personal-os-setup itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything personal-os-setup configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to AmineDjeghri/personal-os-setup. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AmineDjeghri/personal-os-setup/main/.claude/skills/vm-lab/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmineDjeghri/personal-os-setup

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,061 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: 2 findings, 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 18
    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 Rogue Agent · line 18
    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.
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 $0.00084 $0.01061
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00531
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 05b09314dc27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

vm-lab 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 2d 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.

After deps are present, `make vm-deps` also does `sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service`, adds your user to the `libvirt`/`kvm` groups, and starts the default virsh network — **requires sudo**, and **you must log

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Requires `virt-install`, `cloud-localds` (auto-install path only), `curl`, `openssl`, `sha256sum`, `virsh` on `PATH` — `scripts/vm.sh` fails fast with a clear "run `make vm-deps` first" message if any are missing.
.claude/skills/vm-lab/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local VM lab (scripts/vm.sh + makefiles/vm.mk)

A libvirt/QEMU helper for booting throwaway VMs to test OS-setup flows without touching the host. CachyOS-host only (its dependency check shells out to pacman -Qi) — not usable from Ubuntu/macOS dev machines.

⚠️ Every command in this skill mutates the host or a VM's disk state (installs packages, needs sudo, creates/destroys VMs, downloads multi-GB ISOs). Confirm the specific command with the user before running any of them — including make vm-deps, any vm-* target, and scripts/vm.sh invocations — even if the user already asked you to "set up the VM lab" in general terms. See the repo-wide rule in CLAUDE.md § "Safety: always confirm before system-mutating actions".

One-time setup

make vm-deps checks for qemu-full libvirt virt-manager dnsmasq edk2-ovmf cloud-image-utils via pacman -Qi. If anything's missing, it tells you to install it through the app's own Packages tab (Dev_tools category) rather than installing it itself — this is deliberate, keeping package installs funneled through the TUI's package-manager code path rather than duplicated in Make.

⚠️ This package list is a manual mirror of packages.yaml's cachyos.pacman.Dev_tools VM-related entries — nothing checks that they stay in sync. If you add/remove a VM dependency, update both places.

After deps are present, make vm-deps also does sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service, adds your user to the libvirt/kvm groups, and starts the default virsh network — requires sudo, and you must log out and back in for the new group membership to take effect before VM commands will work.

Commands

scripts/vm.sh {cachyos|ubuntu-server-auto|ubuntu-server-manual|ubuntu-desktop|list|clean}, wrapped by make vm-cachyos / make vm-ubuntu-server / make vm-ubuntu-server-manual / make vm-ubuntu / make vm-list / make vm-clean.

State (ISOs, disks, cloud-init seeds) lives under .vm/ at repo root (gitignored).

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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. 2d ago Changed 05b09314dc27
  2. 11d ago First seen · 36 lines · 84 tokens per session scan B 202554580710

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vm-lab is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmineDjeghri/personal-os-setup (602 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,061 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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