Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add chipi/agentic-ai-homelab --skill obs-bootgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chipi/agentic-ai-homelabWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/obs-boot)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/obs-boot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/obs-boot/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/obs-boot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/obs-boot.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00134 | $0.01085 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00054 | $0.00434 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00217 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00109 |
Grade A, and why
obs-boot 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
obs-boot
The homelab observability stack, as it actually runs (checked live 2026-10-02). There is no Grafana Cloud any more; the old DGX + Grafana Cloud recipe was removed from the docs on 2026-10-02 (historical copy: https://github.com/chipi/agentic-ai-homelab/blob/613e465/docs/recipes/observability-boot.md). Don't follow it.
| Where | What runs |
|---|---|
Mac mini (homelab) |
victoriametrics :8428, victorialogs :9428, victoriatraces :10428, grafana :3000, GlitchTip :8090, Langfuse, caddy (tailnet TLS), alloy-homelab (its own host metrics + logs); launchd loops com.homelab.dgx-scrape (TCP health of each DGX service, dgx_service_up), mini-metrics, forward-watchdog |
DGX (dgx-llm-1) |
alloy (all DGX metrics + container logs + kernel journal → the mini), dcgm-exporter, cadvisor |
prod (prod-podcast) |
Alloy collector (chipi/infra infra/observability/vps-observability/) pushing to the mini |
The backend ports are loopback- or tailnet-only. Query them on the mini, or through the tailnet names (https://grafana.tail6d0ed4.ts.net, …).
1. Check (read-only, always first)
~/.claude/skills/obs-boot/scripts/check.sh # exit 0 = PASS, 1 = FAIL
~/.claude/skills/obs-boot/scripts/check.sh --stale-seconds 300
It checks:
- the 5 health endpoints;
- the backend and collector containers on the mini and the DGX;
- the collector loops;
- how many seconds since each host's last metric sample (FAIL over the threshold, default 600 s, or if a host is missing entirely);
- the alert-rule drift check (
drift: 0 rule(s)= live Grafana matches the repo).
SSH defaults to the mini and dgx-llm-1; override with HOMELAB_SSH / DGX_SSH.
Reading a FAIL:
- Endpoint or container down → step 2.
- One host's metrics stale, the others fresh → that host's collector or the network path. Probe from another tailnet node: a broken colima forward on the mini makes everything look down from the mini itself (runbook
docs/recipes/colima-lima-forwarding-recovery.md). - Drift → reload alert provisioning (
POST /api/admin/provisioning/alerting/reload) after confirming the repo is the intended state.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 4d ago Changed 04b5af946418
- 1mo ago Changed · +29 lines · +54 tokens per session 84a0e40ce6dc
- 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A b7df53beb49a
obs-boot is a skill published in the GitHub repository chipi/agentic-ai-homelab (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,085 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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