administering-linux

administering-linux is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ancoleman/ai-design-components. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Linux administration guide for managing servers and deployed applications. Linux is the operating system used by many servers; the guide covers services, processes, filesystems, users, networking, performance, and logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage systemd services, monitor processes, work with filesystems and users, inspect logs, configure networks, tune performance, and troubleshoot production systems.
Why use it?
It gives developers and operations engineers a structured way to deploy applications and diagnose problems on Linux machines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ancoleman/ai-design-components/administering-linux
Any agent
npx skills add ancoleman/ai-design-components --skill administering-linux
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ancoleman/ai-design-components

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,600 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.03600
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01800
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00720
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00360

Measured 4d ago against content hash 508dedd3de8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

administering-linux scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1 executable file (examples/scripts/backup.sh), 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

usermod -aG sudo username # Add to sudo group

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

skills/administering-linux/SKILL.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linux Administration

Comprehensive Linux system administration for managing servers, deploying applications, and troubleshooting production issues in modern cloud-native environments.

Purpose

This skill teaches fundamental and intermediate Linux administration for DevOps engineers, SREs, backend developers, and platform engineers. Focus on systemd-based distributions (Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, Fedora) covering service management, process monitoring, filesystem operations, user administration, performance tuning, log analysis, and network configuration.

Modern infrastructure requires solid Linux fundamentals even with containerization. Container hosts run Linux, Kubernetes nodes need optimization, and troubleshooting production issues requires understanding systemd, processes, and logs.

Not Covered:

  • Advanced networking (BGP, OSPF) - see network-architecture skill
  • Deep security hardening (compliance, pentesting) - see security-hardening skill
  • Configuration management at scale (Ansible, Puppet) - see configuration-management skill
  • Container orchestration - see kubernetes-operations skill

When to Use This Skill

Use when deploying custom applications, troubleshooting slow systems, investigating service failures, optimizing workloads, managing users, configuring SSH, monitoring disk space, scheduling tasks, diagnosing network issues, or applying performance tuning.

Quick Start

Essential Commands

Service Management:

systemctl start nginx              # Start service
systemctl stop nginx               # Stop service
systemctl restart nginx            # Restart service
systemctl status nginx             # Check status
systemctl enable nginx             # Enable at boot
journalctl -u nginx -f             # Follow service logs

Process Monitoring:

top                                # Interactive process monitor
htop                               # Enhanced process monitor
ps aux | grep process_name         # Find specific process
kill -15 PID                       # Graceful shutdown (SIGTERM)
kill -9 PID                        # Force kill (SIGKILL)

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 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 · 450 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 508dedd3de8b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

administering-linux is a skill published in the GitHub repository ancoleman/ai-design-components (517 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,600 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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