homelab-runbooks

homelab-runbooks is a skill for Claude Code from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,249 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of step-by-step instructions for recurring homelab tasks such as waking a standby server, updating DNS, and starting a secrets service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to power on Dell servers through iDRAC, converge DNS for a new ingress host, and bring up OpenBao or Terrakube identity.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork during infrastructure operations and helps prevent exposing credentials or using stale host addresses.

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 power on Dell servers through iDRAC, converge DNS for a new ingress host, and bring up OpenBao or Terrakube identity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/homelab-runbooks
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 homelab-runbooks
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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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,249 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00056 $0.01249
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00125

Measured 4d ago against content hash ab997ff3055c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

homelab-runbooks 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.

homelab-ops/skills/homelab-runbooks/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Homelab Operations Runbooks

Generic, vendor/topology-neutral runbooks for recurring homelab operator tasks. Every identifier below is a placeholder — substitute your own node names, domain, and env-var values; never commit real ones.

Operating note: secrets are var-names, never values

Every credential in this skill is referenced by its environment/secret variable name (e.g. IDRAC_USERNAME, <NODE>_BMC_HOSTNAME), never a literal value. When writing runbooks, commits, or PRs in a public repo: reference the variable name that holds a secret, not the secret itself, and never a real hostname/IP/node name either — use <node> / proxmox-N / <domain> placeholders. See also: always address a host by its FQDN, never a hardcoded IP — IPs are derived from a VLAN + host-id scheme and silently go stale the moment a guest moves.

Runbook 1: Power-managed DR node wake (Dell PowerEdge / iDRAC)

Some DR/standby nodes in a Dell PowerEdge estate sleep nightly to save power and are woken on demand via their iDRAC BMC (ipmitool), same procedure for any node in the class:

ipmitool -I lanplus -H <node>-bmc -U "$IDRAC_USERNAME" -E chassis power on
  • -E reads the password from the IPMITOOL_PASSWORD env var — never put the password on the command line or in shell history.
  • IPMITOOL_PASSWORD and IDRAC_USERNAME are sourced from the secrets engine at runtime; the BMC hostname comes from a per-node var, generalized here as <NODE>_BMC_HOSTNAME.
  • On the target host, the credential is delivered via a root-only EnvironmentFile (mode 0600), never inlined in a unit file or script.

Automation pattern (e.g. an idrac_power Ansible role/play): gate the power-on task on a per-node flag such as pve_power_managed: true, then ipmitool ... chassis power on followed by wait_for_connection (poll SSH until the node answers) before running any converge against it.

Gotcha — BMC network isolation. The BMC/OOB network is usually its own isolated VLAN that the operator's own workstation cannot route to. Delegate the ipmitool call to a controller host that already has OOB network reachability (delegate_to: in Ansible) rather than trying to run it from wherever the operator happens to be.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 4d ago First seen · 101 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A ab997ff3055c

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homelab-runbooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,249 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 2026-09-04.