An operations guide for ssh-licco, a server that lets AI models use SSH to connect to remote computers.

Use it during remote server operations, especially when choosing between MCP tools, the ssh-licco command-line tool, and a Python Paramiko script.

It provides a defined fallback order for connecting, running commands, transferring files, and managing Docker when some tools are unavailable.

How Echoqili/ssh-licco configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Echoqili/ssh-licco. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Echoqili/ssh-licco/master/.trae/skills/ssh-mcp-ops/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Echoqili/ssh-licco

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,219 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan D 3 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00033	$0.02219
Opus 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00888
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00444
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00222

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 4acb832e2eaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

ssh-mcp-ops scanned grade D with 3 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 2mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo systemctl restart sshd

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

ssh_generate_key, key_type=rsa, key_size=4096, save_path=~/.ssh/id_rsa

Makes network callslowCapability

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

4. ssh_execute, command=curl localhost

.trae/skills/ssh-mcp-ops/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SSH MCP Operations Guide

Tool Calling Priority

When executing server operations, tools must be called in the following priority order:

1️⃣ MCP Tools (ssh_connect, ssh_execute, etc.)  ← Always use first
         ↓ If MCP tools are unavailable/not loaded in current session
2️⃣ CLI Tool (ssh-licco exec)                    ← Second choice
         │ Note: Use SSH_SECURITY_LEVEL=relaxed mode
         │       Set SSH_EXTRA_ALLOWED_COMMANDS for non-whitelist commands
         ↓ If CLI tool is also not available
3️⃣ Python Paramiko Script                        ← Last resort

How to determine which layer to use

Indicator	Use
MCP tools appear in your tool list	1️⃣ MCP tools - direct invocation
MCP tools not in tool list, but `ssh-licco` command works	2️⃣ CLI - `ssh-licco exec` with relaxed mode
Neither MCP nor CLI available	3️⃣ Python paramiko - write inline Python script

CLI usage pattern

# Set relaxed mode to allow pipes, redirects, etc.
$env:SSH_SECURITY_LEVEL="relaxed"

# Set extra allowed commands for non-default tools
$env:SSH_EXTRA_ALLOWED_COMMANDS="pg_isready,psql"

# Execute command
ssh-licco exec --host <ip> -u <user> --password <pwd> "<command>"

7 Core Tools

#	Tool	Description
1	`ssh_connect`	Connect to SSH server (auto-reads env vars / saved config)
2	`ssh_execute`	Execute commands (auto-connect, background, long tasks)
3	`ssh_disconnect`	Disconnect or list active sessions
4	`ssh_file_transfer`	Upload/download/list files via SFTP
5	`ssh_host`	Manage server configs (list/add/remove)
6	`ssh_docker`	Docker management (ps/images/build/logs)
7	`ssh_generate_key`	Generate SSH key pairs

Quick Reference

Connect (auto-login with env vars)

ssh_connect

Or with params:

ssh_connect, host=43.143.207.242, username=root, password=xxx

Or using saved config:

ssh_connect, name=production

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 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.

2mo ago First seen · 289 lines · 33 tokens per session scan D 4acb832e2eaa

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ssh-mcp-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository Echoqili/ssh-licco (4 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,219 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, reaches for credential files, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Cloud DevOps and cloud

ssh-mcp-ops next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
ssh-mcp-opsEchoqili/ssh-licco	Skill	4	11d ago	MIT	D	33	Claude Code, Codex
gke-compute-classesgoogle/skills	Skill	22k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	83	Claude Code, Codex
gke-reliabilitygoogle/skills	Skill	22k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	85	Claude Code, Codex
gke-workload-securitygoogle/skills	Skill	22k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	171	Claude Code, Codex
cloud-architectJeffallan/claude-skills	Skill	12k	7d ago	MIT	A	71	Claude Code
nemo-automodel-launcher-configNVIDIA/skills	Skill	3.9k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	30	Claude Code
azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnetmicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	78	Claude Code

ssh-licco: Skill for Claude Code