kvm-pilot

kvm-pilot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DustinTrap/kvm-pilot. It costs 234 tokens per session (2,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for controlling physical, headless computers through remote hardware-management devices such as IP-KVMs, server controllers, and Intel AMT. An IP-KVM lets you view and operate a machine's screen and keyboard over a network, even when no operating system is available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to power machines on or off, mount installation ISO files, install systems, send keyboard input, and recover servers through supported hardware interfaces.
Why use it?
It lets you operate, install, or recover a remote machine without being physically beside it, while calling attention to risky actions such as power cycling and resets.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/dustintrap/kvm-pilot/skill
Any agent
npx skills add DustinTrap/kvm-pilot --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DustinTrap/kvm-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for kvm-pilot

README.md
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Per session 234 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,127 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 $0.00234 $0.02127
Opus 5 $0.00117 $0.01064
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00213

Measured 4d ago against content hash 965cb66387a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kvm-pilot 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.

src/kvm_pilot/skill/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kvm-pilot skill

⚠️ Release candidate — verify against the matrix. The core read paths are live-verified on GL-RM1PE at beta maturity, but many device+capability combos are still unit-tested with mocks only (see the Hardware-Compatibility list for what actually has). Treat every result as unverified, expect bugs, and never point a destructive operation (power, reset, media, keystrokes) at a machine the user can't afford to have power-cycled unexpectedly. Surface each destructive step to the user before executing it.

This skill is a thin wrapper over the installable kvm-pilot package. The code lives in the package, not here — install it and import it rather than copying client logic into a script. Vision (screen classification) runs on Claude or any local OpenAI-compatible VLM — see references/setup.md.

How to use this skill — read the playbook at need-time

The detailed playbooks live in references/ next to this file, split so you can read exactly the one the moment calls for instead of holding all of them in mind. When one of these situations comes up, (re)read its file — even if you read it hours ago. A fresh read at need-time beats a faded memory, especially late in a long session:

Situation Read
Picking how to do an action (screen, HID, media, boot control, logs, SSH) — the full per-action interface matrix, multitasking rules, CLI command set references/interfaces.md
Host dark / wedged / unreachable; a snapshot failed or can't be trusted; before ever asking the user to physically intervene references/recovery.md
Installing the package, registering the MCP server, the full tool list + effect gates, approval cancel/denied handling, first-run orientation references/setup.md
Any OS install through the KVM references/linux-install.md
An installer or answer file asks for locale, keyboard, or timezone references/target-context.md
Driving the Python library directly; worked examples references/library.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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.

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 · 145 lines · 234 tokens per session scan A 965cb66387a9

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kvm-pilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository DustinTrap/kvm-pilot (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 234 tokens to every session and 2,127 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.