remote

A control panel for physical computers and services listed in configuration files. It can check whether machines are reachable and connect to them through SSH or RDP, which are common remote-access methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view machines, check health, read service logs, restart services, sync configuration, wake computers over the network, or open remote sessions.
Why use it?
It puts routine work across several machines in one interface instead of requiring separate commands and connection details. Risky actions such as shutdown and reboot require confirmation.

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/bks-lab/open-bridge/remote
Any agent
npx skills add bks-lab/open-bridge --skill remote
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bks-lab/open-bridge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 780 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 $0.00098 $0.00780
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00390
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00078

Measured 3d ago against content hash 59fa79bf92d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remote 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 3d 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.

skills/remote/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Remote

Manage remote machines defined in infra/remotes/*.yaml. Read the referenced file ONLY when triggered.

Guard

remotes.enabled must be true in bridge-config.yaml. If not: inform and exit.

Arguments

Argument Effect Default
(none) Dashboard of all remotes
{hostname} Detail view of one remote
health {hostname} SSH health check
logs {hostname} {service} Show recent logs
restart {hostname} {service} Restart service
sync {hostname} Sync config files
wake {hostname} Wake-on-LAN
connect {hostname} Open SSH / RDP session
shutdown {hostname} Power off (requires [y])
reboot {hostname} Restart machine (requires [y])

Decision Tree

User wants to...
├── Remote overview / dashboard        → Read references/workflow.md (§ Dashboard)
├── Detail view of one machine         → Read references/workflow.md (§ Dashboard, single host)
├── Wake / power on a machine          → Read references/fleet.md (§ Stage 3 WoL)
├── Connect via SSH / RDP              → Read references/fleet.md (§ Stage 4 Connect)
├── Reboot or shutdown                 → Read references/fleet.md (§ Stage 5)
├── Check reachability / online?       → Read references/fleet.md (§ Stage 2)
├── Update inventory after a change    → Read references/fleet.md (§ Stage 6)
├── Health check for a machine         → Read references/workflow.md (§ Health Check)
├── View service logs                  → Read references/workflow.md (§ Logs)
├── Restart a service                  → Read references/workflow.md (§ Restart)
├── Sync config to a remote            → Read references/workflow.md (§ Sync)
├── Deploy services to a remote        → Read references/workflow.md (§ Deploy)
├── Identify "my PC" / intent-only     → Read references/fleet.md (§ Stage 1 + Learned routing)
└── Questions about remotes            → Answer from CLAUDE.md § Remotes

Reference map

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 59fa79bf92d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

remote is a skill published in the GitHub repository bks-lab/open-bridge (8 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 780 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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