coolify

coolify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericrisco/rsc-harness. It costs 100 tokens per session (3,419 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide to running Coolify, an open-source control panel that deploys applications and databases on a Linux VPS you own. A VPS is a rented virtual server, while Coolify manages what runs on it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps install Coolify, deploy from Git using Docker-related setups, run Postgres and Redis, connect domains with automatic SSL, schedule backups to S3, and test restoring them.
Why use it?
It helps replace manual deployment and server setup with a repeatable process while keeping the infrastructure and data under your control. It also addresses the backup and security work you must handle yourself.

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/ericrisco/rsc-harness/coolify
Any agent
npx skills add ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill coolify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness

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 coolify

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/coolify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/coolify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,419 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 3 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 $0.03419
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.01709
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00684
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00342

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8917a3d883e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

coolify scanned grade B 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 rootlowPrivilege escalation

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

| "I'll install with my sudo user, root feels risky" | The installer wires Docker + system services and the docs say non-root is not fully supported. SSH in as root for install. |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | bash

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | bash
skills/coolify/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Coolify — own-the-box PaaS on your VPS

Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable control plane that turns a plain Linux VPS into a Vercel/Heroku replacement: Git-to-deploy, managed databases, automatic SSL, scheduled backups — for a flat VPS bill instead of per-request metering. This skill is operational. It produces the exact install one-liner, the port matrix, env wiring, a lint-clean compose artifact, and a backup-to-S3 cron with a tested restore. Coolify 4.x (stable in 2026); v4.1 added Railpack, structured audit logging, and a read-only MCP server.

Mental model — read this first

  1. Coolify is the control plane, not the box. It runs on a VPS you provisioned elsewhere. Hardware sizing, the cloud firewall, SSH hardening, OS patching → that is the VPS layer (hetzner / digitalocean), not this skill. Coolify orchestrates what runs on the box.
  2. You own the data and the uptime now. No vendor takes nightly snapshots for you. So backups are non-optional and a backup you have never restored is not a backup (see the backup section).
  3. Everything underneath is Docker. Coolify generates compose/Dockerfile runs and a Traefik proxy. So every Docker rule still applies — named volumes, healthchecks, pinned images, env-injected secrets. For image-authoring depth (multi-stage, layer caching) go to the docker skill; here we wire it.
  4. First account to register owns the instance — forever. There is no "admin invite" recovery if a stranger registers first. Claim it within seconds of install (see step 4).

Decision — where should this app actually run?

Option Who owns the box Cost shape Ops burden Choose when
Coolify self-hosted (this skill) You (your VPS) Flat VPS/month You patch + back up Predictable bill, data sovereignty, many apps on one box
Coolify Cloud You bring the server; they host the control plane VPS + small SaaS fee They run the control plane Want Coolify UX without babysitting the dashboard's own uptime
Managed PaaS (railway / render / fly-io / vercel / netlify) The provider Per-usage, scales up fast Near-zero Spiky scale-to-zero, no box to own — the inverse of Coolify

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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 · 195 lines · 100 tokens per session scan B 8917a3d883e6

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coolify is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (60 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 3,419 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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