shell-runner

A tool for running shell commands on a remote computer through QuickDesk. It returns the command's output, errors, and exit status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running scripts, terminal commands, and other command-line tasks on a remote host, with an optional folder and time limit.
Why use it?
It lets an agent operate on another computer without needing the terminal to be local. The exit status and error output show whether the command worked.

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/barry-ran/quickdesk/shell-runner
Any agent
npx skills add barry-ran/QuickDesk --skill shell-runner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/barry-ran/QuickDesk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00051 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash b6b7ae91af8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shell-runner 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 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.

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.

quickdesk-skill-host/skills/shell-runner/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

shell-runner

Run shell commands on a remote host connected through QuickDesk. Commands execute via cmd /C on Windows or sh -c on Unix.

Tools

run_command

Execute a shell command on the remote host.

  • command (string, required) — the shell command to execute
  • working_dir (string, optional) — working directory for the command
  • timeout_secs (integer, optional) — timeout in seconds (default: 60)

Returns:

{
  "exit_code": 0,
  "stdout": "...",
  "stderr": "...",
  "stdout_truncated": false,
  "stderr_truncated": false
}

Output is truncated at 512 KB per stream if the command produces large output.

Workflow

  1. Call run_command with the desired command string.
  2. Check exit_code — 0 means success, non-zero indicates failure.
  3. If exit_code is non-zero, inspect stderr for error details.
  4. For long-running commands, increase timeout_secs beyond the 60-second default.
  5. Use working_dir to execute commands in a specific directory without changing global state.
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 First seen · 48 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A b6b7ae91af8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shell-runner is a skill published in the GitHub repository barry-ran/QuickDesk (423 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 358 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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