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.
npx agentmods add skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/hetznernpx skills add ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill hetznergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harnessWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/hetzner)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/hetzner"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericrisco/rsc-harness/hetzner.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00097 | $0.02880 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00048 | $0.01440 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00576 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00288 |
Grade A, and why
hetzner scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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 rootlowPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
- **No root login.** `PermitRootLogin no` + a sudo user. Root over SSH is the Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Hetzner — the cheap European box, made safe and reproducible
Hetzner Cloud is chosen for one reason: price/performance. A 2 vCPU / 4 GB AMD box runs about €7.99/mo, the EU Intel line dips under €4, and EU locations include 20 TB of egress. The risk is that "cheap" becomes "unhardened and unmonitored" — a root-SSH box on a public IPv4 with password auth on. Your job is to make the cheap box safe and reproducible: every server comes up from a committed cloud-init file and a Cloud Firewall ruleset, never from click-ops in the console. A box you can't recreate from a file isn't a box, it's a pet.
Decide before you create
Pick the line, then the location. Prices are post-2026-04-01 (a price adjustment took effect that date); treat exact cents as "verify in the console."
| Line | Chip | When to pick | Price band | EU-only? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CX | Intel (shared) | Cost-optimized, tiny EU workloads | ~€3.99/mo (2 vCPU/4 GB/40 GB) | Yes |
| CPX | AMD (shared) | Default for apps; best general value | CPX22 ~€7.99, CPX32 ~€13.99, CPX42 ~€25.49 | No |
| CAX | ARM64 (shared) | Cheapest per-core; ARM-clean workloads | Cheapest per-core | Yes |
| CCX | Dedicated vCPU | Steady CPU load, no noisy-neighbor | CCX13 ~€15.99 (2 vCPU/8 GB) | No |
Rules:
- IPv4 costs extra (~€0.50–0.60/mo); IPv6 is free. An IPv6-only box is
cheaper, but it breaks anything that can't reach IPv6: many container
registries, some package mirrors, CI runners, SSH clients on IPv4-only nets.
If
docker pulloraptwill run on the box, keep one IPv4 unless you've confirmed every upstream is dual-stack. Why: a saved €0.50/mo is not worth a brokendocker pullat 2 a.m. - Location decides your traffic budget. EU locations (Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki) include 20 TB/mo egress; overage ~€1/TB. US (Ashburn, Hillsboro) and Singapore have far lower included transfer. Why: pick US "for latency," serve a video, and the surprise bill is the traffic cap, not the instance.
- No APAC own datacenter. If your users are in Asia, this is a real latency cost — name it, don't hide it.
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 204 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A ccc7949ed032
hetzner is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericrisco/rsc-harness (65 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,880 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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