aether-linux-mcp

A Linux computer-control interface that exposes system information and actions through tools, prompts, and readable data endpoints. Linux is an operating system used on servers, desktops, and other computers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Linux system checks, security audits, network and user management, process and service control, file and package operations, and system automation.
Why use it?
It gives an agent defined ways to inspect and manage a Linux system, including its hardware, users, processes, services, network, files, packages, and security settings.

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/foursecondfivefour/aether-linux-mcp-server/aether-linux-mcp
Any agent
npx skills add foursecondfivefour/aether-linux-mcp-server --skill aether-linux-mcp
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foursecondfivefour/aether-linux-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,421 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00000 $0.01421
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00284
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00142

Measured yesterday against content hash 2b8c644591c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

aether-linux-mcp scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

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

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foursecondfivefour/aether-linux-mcp-server/main/scripts/install/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foursecondfivefour/aether-linux-mcp-server/main/scripts/install/install.sh | bash
.agents/skills/aether-linux-mcp/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AETHER_02 — Skill Configuration

{
  "tools": [
    "system_info",
    "hardware_control",
    "security_audit",
    "network_manager",
    "user_management",
    "process_control",
    "service_manager",
    "gui_automation",
    "system_automation",
    "file_system",
    "package_manager",
    "system_config"
  ],
  "prompts": [
    "system_health",
    "security_posture",
    "diagnostic_report"
  ],
  "resources": [
    "aether://system/cpu",
    "aether://system/memory",
    "aether://system/disk",
    "aether://system/os-release",
    "aether://system/uptime",
    "aether://system/kernel",
    "aether://system/gpu",
    "aether://system/pci",
    "aether://system/usb",
    "aether://system/dmi",
    "aether://system/thermal",
    "aether://system/network-adapters",
    "aether://system/firewall",
    "aether://system/services",
    "aether://system/users",
    "aether://system/security",
    "aether://config/feature-gates",
    "aether://system/environment",
    "aether://system/installed-packages",
    "aether://system/journal"
  ]
}

AETHER_02 — Full-Spectrum Linux MCP Server

12 tools. 3 prompts. 20 resources. 99.9% Linux coverage. Zero compromises.

AETHER_02 gives AI assistants full control over Linux via standard input/output. From process management to GUI automation, from kernel security audit to hardware control. Separate repository from AETHER_01 (Windows). Same philosophy, different OS.

Tools (12)

# Tool Coverage
1 process_control Processes, signals, cgroups, namespaces, containers, Docker/Podman, perf
2 file_system Files, ACL, xattr, symlinks, mount, LVM, swap, fsck, NFS, btrfs, ZFS
3 package_manager apt, dnf, pacman, zypper, flatpak, snap, AppImage, nix
4 system_config sysctl, kernel cmdline, modprobe, dconf, hostname, timezone, locale, udev
5 service_manager systemd, OpenRC, runit, s6 — start/stop/restart/enable/disable
6 gui_automation X11 + Wayland, mouse/keyboard, windows, screenshots, audio, display
7 system_info CPU, memory, disk, OS, GPU, PCI, USB, DMI, ACPI, IOMMU, NUMA, sensors
8 network_manager iproute2, nftables, NetworkManager, WireGuard, bridges, WiFi, Bluetooth
9 user_management passwd/group/shadow, useradd/userdel, PAM, polkit, sudoers, SSH keys
10 security_audit SELinux, AppArmor, auditd, ufw, TPM2, Secure Boot, IMA/EVM, kernel hardening
11 hardware_control NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU, PCI, USB, ACPI, cpufreq, thermal, IOMMU, kdump
12 system_automation journald, systemd timers, cron, at, tmpfiles, sysusers, boot analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. yesterday First seen · 141 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 2b8c644591c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aether-linux-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository foursecondfivefour/aether-linux-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,421 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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