syslog-receiver

syslog-receiver is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 17 tokens per session (725 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A receiver that listens for syslog messages from network devices over UDP and lets you search the collected messages. Syslog is a standard way for routers, switches, and firewalls to report events and errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or stop collection, check receiver statistics, search by severity or device, inspect individual messages, and count events by severity.
Why use it?
It gives engineers a central place to monitor device events, investigate past incidents, and filter large volumes of log messages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to start or stop collection, check receiver statistics, search by severity or device, inspect individual messages, and count events by severity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automateyournetwork/netclaw/syslog-receiver
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill syslog-receiver
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 725 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00017 $0.00725
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 9d ago against content hash 44f451e466e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

syslog-receiver 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 9d 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.

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.

workspace/skills/syslog-receiver/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Syslog Receiver Skill

Receive and query syslog messages from network devices via UDP.

Skill ID

syslog-receiver

Description

This skill enables NetClaw to receive syslog messages from network devices (routers, switches, firewalls) and query the collected data. It supports both RFC 5424 (modern) and RFC 3164 (BSD/Cisco) syslog formats.

When to Use

  • Monitoring network device events in real-time
  • Investigating incidents by querying historical syslog data
  • Aggregating logs from multiple network devices
  • Filtering messages by severity, facility, hostname, or content
  • Analyzing error patterns across the network

Required MCP Server

syslog-mcp

Available Tools

Tool Purpose
syslog_start_receiver Start listening for syslog messages
syslog_stop_receiver Stop the receiver
syslog_get_status Check receiver status and statistics
syslog_query Search messages with filters
syslog_get_message Get full details of a specific message
syslog_get_severity_counts Get message counts by severity

Example Workflows

Start Monitoring

1. Use syslog_start_receiver with port 10514
2. Configure network devices to send syslog to this port
3. Use syslog_get_status to verify messages are being received

Investigate Errors

1. Use syslog_query with severity_max=3 to find ERROR and above
2. Filter by hostname or source_ip if investigating specific device
3. Use message_contains to search for specific keywords
4. Use syslog_get_message for full details of interesting entries

Daily Summary

1. Use syslog_get_severity_counts to see distribution
2. Focus on CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING counts
3. Query high-severity messages for details

Sample Prompts

  • "Start the syslog receiver on port 10514"
  • "Show me all error messages from the last hour"
  • "How many critical alerts have we received today?"
  • "Find all syslog messages containing 'interface down'"
  • "What's the syslog receiver status?"
  • "Query syslog for messages from 192.168.1.1"

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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. 9d ago First seen · 103 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 44f451e466e0

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syslog-receiver is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (657 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 725 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 2026-09-03.

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