node-zombie-guardian

node-zombie-guardian is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (703 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safety-focused tool for auditing Node.js processes started by the VCO system. It identifies which processes are managed, stale, or external, while keeping external and unknown processes out of cleanup candidates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to register or inspect VCO-launched processes, produce Markdown or JSON audit reports, and simulate cleanup of stale VCO-managed processes.
Why use it?
It helps investigate leftover Node processes without accidentally affecting unrelated workloads. Cleanup is reported or simulated rather than applied to real processes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to register or inspect VCO-launched processes, produce Markdown or JSON audit reports, and simulate cleanup of stale VCO-managed processes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/foryourhealth111-pixel/vibe-skills/node-zombie-guardian
About the project

Vibe-Skills is a collection and routing system that helps AI agents discover, select, and coordinate specialized skills for completing tasks. It is intended for agents that need to organize workflows across many installed capabilities. The catalogue entries are skills and an agent belonging to this system.

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills · 3,252 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill node-zombie-guardian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 703 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00703
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash 80b488df562d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

node-zombie-guardian 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 9d 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.

bundled/skills/node-zombie-guardian/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Node Zombie Guardian

This skill is for managed-process hygiene inside the VCO ecosystem.

It exists to answer one question safely: which Node processes belong to VCO, which of them are stale, and which of those are eligible for cleanup without risking live external workloads.

Safety Boundary

  • Only processes with ownership = vco-managed can ever become cleanup candidates.
  • external and unknown processes remain audit-only.
  • Cleanup is report-first by default.
  • Fixture -Apply mode remains simulation-only and must never terminate real processes.

When To Use

  • Node processes accumulate after long VCO runs and you need an ownership-aware audit.
  • You want to register or observe VCO-launched Node processes through the wrapper.
  • You need a Markdown or JSON report of managed vs external Node processes.
  • You want to simulate cleanup of stale VCO-managed Node processes without touching real workloads.

Operator Surfaces

This skill is a focused wrapper around the operator scripts that live in the bundled vibe skill:

  • ../vibe/scripts/common/NodeLaunchWrapper.ps1
  • ../vibe/scripts/governance/Invoke-NodeProcessAudit.ps1
  • ../vibe/scripts/governance/Invoke-NodeZombieCleanup.ps1
  • ../vibe/scripts/verify/vibe-node-zombie-gate.ps1

Quick Start

1. Launch a managed Node process through the wrapper

Use the wrapper when VCO starts a Node workload that should be tracked in the ledger.

& "..\vibe\scripts\common\NodeLaunchWrapper.ps1" `
  -RepoRoot "C:\path\to\repo" `
  -Command "node" `
  -ArgumentList @("scripts\worker.js")

2. Audit live Node ownership and liveness

Default mode is read-only and emits a report.

& "..\vibe\scripts\governance\Invoke-NodeProcessAudit.ps1" `
  -RepoRoot "C:\path\to\repo" `
  -WriteArtifacts

Expected outcomes:

  • classify processes such as managed_live, managed_stale, external_audit_only
  • emit JSON and Markdown artifacts for review
  • keep non-managed processes out of the cleanup candidate set

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 91 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 80b488df562d

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node-zombie-guardian is a skill published in the GitHub repository foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills (3,252 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 703 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.