dell-idrac-bmc-ops

dell-idrac-bmc-ops is a skill for Claude Code from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 111 tokens per session (3,006 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of procedures for managing Dell PowerEdge iDRAC, the remote management controller built into Dell servers, without a monitor or keyboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure an iDRAC, stage firmware, control server power, and start a remote Proxmox or Linux installation.
Why use it?
It helps operators identify the correct physical server before power actions and handle firmware, network, and unattended installation issues safely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the homelab-ops plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure an iDRAC, stage firmware, control server power, and start a remote Proxmox or Linux installation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/dell-idrac-bmc-ops
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dryvist/claude-code-plugins --skill dell-idrac-bmc-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install homelab-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,006 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00111 $0.03006
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01503
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00601
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00301

Measured 3d ago against content hash 789b6edc9561, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dell-idrac-bmc-ops scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sk "https://$BMC/redfish/v1/" | jq '.Oem.Dell' # ManagerMACAddress, ServiceTag
homelab-ops/skills/dell-idrac-bmc-ops/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dell iDRAC BMC operations

Operating a Dell PowerEdge BMC (iDRAC) headlessly — no monitor, no KVM cart — from cabling through a standardized, current-firmware baseline ready for an unattended OS install. Every command below is copy-pasteable and generalizes across iDRAC 6 (11G) through iDRAC 9 (14G+); where a generation can't reach a step, that's called out rather than left to fail silently.

The one rule that overrides everything else: identify before you act

A BMC name or address answering is zero evidence of which chassis is behind it. BMC hostnames are commonly keyed by chassis model, not by node role or number — nothing in a name like idrac-r540 tells you which rack node it fronts. A successful login proves a BMC exists and accepted your credential; it says nothing about the hardware behind it.

Before any power action (reset, cycle, off), confirm the chassis serial matches the machine you intend to touch:

ipmitool -I lanplus -H "$BMC" -U root -P "$PW" fru      # chassis/product serial
curl -sk "https://$BMC/redfish/v1/" | jq '.Oem.Dell'     # ManagerMACAddress, ServiceTag

If the serial doesn't match, or you can't get one, do not issue a power command. This is not theoretical — guessing a BMC name from a node's role has power-cycled the wrong live machine in this exact scenario.

Headless bring-up

  1. Skip the front micro-USB port on macOS. iDRAC Direct presents as an RNDIS network adapter; macOS ships no RNDIS driver, so the interface never appears at all. This isn't a cable or driver-install problem — it's a platform gap. Use the dedicated iDRAC RJ-45 port instead.

  2. Check whether the BMC is already reachable before touching cables — a subnet sweep for hosts answering HTTPS on the management VLAN, or asking whatever controls that VLAN's DHCP leases which MACs are live.

  3. The zero-config fix, if it isn't reachable: move one cable. If a switch port on the management VLAN already exists, plug the dedicated iDRAC NIC into it. iDRAC defaults to DHCP and self-configures — no port profile edit, no console. Give it several minutes to initialize on a cold box, then re-sweep.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 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. 3d ago First seen · 239 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 789b6edc9561

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dell-idrac-bmc-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 3,006 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.