network-administration

network-administration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 62 tokens per session (917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of practices for designing and running a company network, including the connections between users, servers, devices, and remote workers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to divide networks by trust level, control traffic between them, set up remote access, plan addresses, manage DNS, and investigate unreliable connections.
Why use it?
It helps prevent one compromised device from reaching everything else and makes connectivity, remote access, DNS, and addressing problems easier to diagnose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the it-operations plugin — 12 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,247 stars · on GitHub

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/cbrock84/headcount/network-administration
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill network-administration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install it-operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 917 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 $0.00062 $0.00917
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured yesterday against content hash 8a4ed5ccd375, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

network-administration 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/it-operations/skills/network-administration/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Network administration

The network is the substrate everything else assumes works. It gets attention when it fails and is otherwise expected to be invisible, which is why its design debts persist for years.

Segment by trust, and mean it

A flat network means one compromised laptop reaches the finance server. Segmentation is the highest- value structural control available and the most commonly deferred.

Separate at minimum: user devices, servers, management interfaces, guest, and anything unmanaged — printers, cameras, building systems, contractor equipment. That last category is the recurring entry point, because it is rarely patched and rarely owned.

Default deny between segments, and permit specific flows. Rules that accumulate without review become an allow-all with extra steps; review them on a cadence and remove what no longer has a reason.

Remote access

The perimeter stopped being a perimeter when the workforce and the workloads left it. Treat network location as weak evidence of trust: being on the corporate network should not by itself grant access to anything sensitive.

Prefer per-application access over full network access. A remote user needing one internal application does not need a route to the entire internal estate, which is what a traditional VPN grants by default.

Authentication and authorization policy belongs to security:access-and-identity; this skill implements the network path.

DNS and addressing are load-bearing

DNS failure presents as everything being broken, which is why it is misdiagnosed for the first twenty minutes of many incidents. Run it redundantly, monitor resolution from the client's perspective rather than the server's, and keep records under change control.

Plan addressing with room to grow and document it. Overlapping private ranges is the problem that surfaces years later during an acquisition or a site merge and is expensive at exactly that moment.

Diagnose in layers

Work bottom-up and prove each layer before moving on: physical, then addressing, then routing, then name resolution, then the application. Most misdiagnosis comes from starting at the application because that is where the complaint originated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. yesterday First seen · 87 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 8a4ed5ccd375

Subscribe to this mod's changes

network-administration is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 917 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 2026-09-03.

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