What is aether-iot-query?

A set of instructions for using the aether command-line tool to query a live AetherEdge runtime, an edge system for connected devices. It covers channels, values, history, alarms, rules, models, routing, and service health.

Use it to check device and system status, read real-time or historical values, inspect alarms and rules, and diagnose runtime health.

It gives agents a defined way to retrieve current runtime data without inspecting source code, databases, or configuration files.

aether-iot-query — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by EvanL1

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.

Any agent

npx skills add EvanL1/AetherEdge --skill aether

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvanL1/AetherEdge

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.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,548 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 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	$0.00000	$0.02548
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.01019
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00510
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00255

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fea8e0d058a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aether-iot-query 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (install.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.

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.

tools/aether/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AetherEdge Runtime Query Skill

Use aether as the primary interface for live AetherEdge runtime data. Energy models, mappings, rules, commissioning examples, and operator-console guidance belong to the downstream AetherEMS repository.

Core Rules

Execute aether commands to answer questions about current platform state.
Do not read source code files or SQLite database files to answer live data questions.
Do not read config YAML files to answer questions about running device data.
Always add --json when you need to parse or chain results.
When --host is needed, pass it as a global flag (before the subcommand).

Command Discovery

aether --help
aether <subcommand> --help        # e.g. aether alarms --help
aether channels --help

Global Flags

Flag	Purpose
`--json`	Machine-readable output (suppresses color/banner)
`--host <ip>`	Read-only direct-service diagnostics (e.g. `--host 192.0.2.10`)
`--verbose`	Debug-level logging

Authentication

Read-only aether queries require no login on the local interface. Governed mutations require a signed Admin/Engineer JWT in AETHER_ACCESS_TOKEN plus explicit --confirmed; talking to a loopback service does not grant write authority.

Connecting to a Remote Machine

# Option A — SSH (aether lives on the remote machine)
ssh [email protected] 'aether --json alarms list'

# Option B — local aether binary + --host flag
#   read-only diagnostics only; requires explicitly protected service ingress
aether --host 192.0.2.10 --json alarms list

Prefer Option A. Browser applications and operator consoles must use the authenticated aether-api application gateway rather than expose internal service ports.

Command Map

Channels (io :6001)

aether channels list
aether channels list --json
aether channels status <id>
aether channels health
aether channels points list <channel_id>
aether channels points get <channel_id> <point_type> <point_id>
AETHER_ACCESS_TOKEN='<Admin/Engineer JWT>' aether channels create \
  --name <name> --protocol <protocol> --params '<json>' --confirmed
AETHER_ACCESS_TOKEN='<Admin/Engineer JWT>' aether channels update <id> \
  --description <text> --expected-revision <revision> --confirmed
AETHER_ACCESS_TOKEN='<Admin/Engineer JWT>' aether channels enable <id> \
  --expected-revision <revision> --confirmed
AETHER_ACCESS_TOKEN='<Admin/Engineer JWT>' aether channels disable <id> --confirmed
AETHER_ACCESS_TOKEN='<Admin/Engineer JWT>' aether channels delete <id> \
  --expected-revision <revision> --confirmed

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 lines

Files

What ships with it

48 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.

1mo ago First seen · 237 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fea8e0d058a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aether-iot-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvanL1/AetherEdge (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,548 tokens. 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.

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