public-url-hosting

public-url-hosting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ariana-dot-dev/cloud-sandbox-vm-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (449 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A service that gives a running web app, API, demo, or webhook a public HTTPS address from a cloud machine. HTTPS is the encrypted web connection used by most sites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish an HTTP service, keep an endpoint available, expose a demo, or connect a custom domain and non-HTTP service.
Why use it?
It handles the public address, encryption certificate, and access control so the service can be reached without separately configuring DNS or TLS.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to publish an HTTP service, keep an endpoint available, expose a demo, or connect a custom domain and non-HTTP service.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariana-dot-dev/cloud-sandbox-vm-skills/public-url-hosting
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 ariana-dot-dev/cloud-sandbox-vm-skills --skill public-url-hosting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariana-dot-dev/cloud-sandbox-vm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 449 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00085 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00045

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1b39eed9ae6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

public-url-hosting scanned grade C 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 12d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

`curl -fsSL https://box.ascii.dev/install | sh`, then `box login "$BOX_API_KEY" --json`.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

`curl -fsSL https://box.ascii.dev/install | sh`, then `box login "$BOX_API_KEY" --json`.
skills/public-url-hosting/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Public URL hosting (Box)

Use this to put a running service on the public internet from inside a Box: a web app, an API, a demo, or a long-lived endpoint. Box handles TLS, routing, and auth — no DNS, no certificates, no separate platform.

Recipe

box_id="$(box new --no-auto-stop --json | jq -r 'select(.event == "ready") | .id')"
box ssh "$box_id" -- bash -s < ./deploy.sh                 # build + start app on 0.0.0.0:8080
box ssh "$box_id" -- "host 8080 --public --title 'my app'"
box ssh "$box_id" -- "host url 8080"                        # https://<box>-8080.on.ascii.dev

host URLs are token-gated by default; --public makes them open. A dedicated IPv4 + full TCP/UDP means you can also point your own domain or host non-HTTP services.

Why Box

  • Zero infra — TLS + subdomain + auth managed for you.
  • Stays up--no-auto-stop keeps the host alive 24-7; persists across resume.
  • Cheap — per-second billing, ~10× cheaper than typical sandbox/host providers.

Prereqs

curl -fsSL https://box.ascii.dev/install | sh, then box login "$BOX_API_KEY" --json.

Limits

EU-only; 100 active VMs soft cap. For multi-region CDN-grade hosting, use a dedicated host; Box is best for single-VM services, previews, and demos.

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. 12d ago First seen · 34 lines · 85 tokens per session scan C 1b39eed9ae6c

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public-url-hosting is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariana-dot-dev/cloud-sandbox-vm-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 449 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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