workstation-offbox-backup

workstation-offbox-backup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A backup pattern for workstation apps that continuously collect data, such as activity trackers or recorders. It keeps searchable text in a log-search system and large media files in durable storage while leaving old data directly readable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split local application data between searchable central storage and snapshotted storage, then safely remove older local records.
Why use it?
It prevents a growing local database and media collection from slowing the app or filling the workstation. It also preserves history without requiring a full restore before older data can be accessed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/workstation-offbox-backup
Any agent
npx skills add dryvist/claude-code-plugins --skill workstation-offbox-backup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,003 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 $0.00100 $0.01003
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00100

Measured yesterday against content hash 422d22613043, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workstation-offbox-backup 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.

homelab-ops/skills/workstation-offbox-backup/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workstation data → off-box backup pattern

A workstation app that continuously records data (activity trackers, recorders, local-first tools with a growing SQLite file) tends to grow an ever-larger local database plus a pile of bulk media. Left alone it bloats the machine and slows the app's own queries. The goal: keep the local store small and fast, never lose history, and keep old data directly accessible without a restore round-trip.

The trick is to split by what the data is for, and lean on infrastructure you already run rather than writing a custom uploader.

The split: searchable text vs. bulk bytes

Data Destination Why
Searchable text (anything you'd query) A log/search platform you already run Indexed and retained centrally — far more searchable than a local file, and it doubles as the backup
Bulk media (large binary files) Durable, snapshotted storage Heavy, not searchable — just needs point-in-time copies

Once a row's text is indexed centrally and its media is on durable storage, the local row is disposable — that's what makes aggressive local pruning safe.

Text → search platform (pull, don't push)

Most apps have no native log-forwarding sink. Rather than script an exporter, pull with a collector you already run against the app's local API or database on a schedule. Use a short collection window with a small overlap, and de-duplicate on the row's monotonic id — if rows are immutable, overlap plus dedup means no gaps and no duplicates, with no cursor state to maintain by hand.

If the app exposes only a local database file and no API, a filesystem/database-native collector is the equivalent pull — still declarative collector config, not a maintained script.

Bulk media → durable storage

Push media off-box with the app's own native sync if it has one (e.g. SFTP to an existing host), otherwise a scheduled rsync. Land it on storage that's already snapshotted and replicated — you inherit point-in-time history and off-node durability for free instead of building your own. Run the sync on a timer that fires on wake, so a machine that sleeps overnight simply catches up the next time it's awake.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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 · 92 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 422d22613043

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workstation-offbox-backup is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,003 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 2026-09-04.

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