vps_host_ssh

vps_host_ssh is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot. It costs 23 tokens per session (453 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A procedure for running commands directly on a VPS, which is a rented remote server, over SSH. It uses a preconfigured connection named vps so commands run on the server instead of inside the bot container.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install Debian or Ubuntu packages and run commands on the VPS host operating system. Verify installed programs over the same SSH connection.
Why use it?
It prevents installing packages or changing files in the wrong environment. It also provides a consistent command format for server administration and package installation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to install Debian or Ubuntu packages and run commands on the VPS host operating system. Verify installed programs over the same SSH connection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot/vps_host_ssh
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 frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot --skill vps_host_ssh
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 453 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9e717b6b1651, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

vps_host_ssh scanned grade C 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 8d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Do not suggest destructive host commands (`rm -rf /`, disk wipe, etc.).
skills/vps_host_ssh/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

VPS host — always via ssh, never “bare” apt inside the bot container

When the user asks to install a package on the VPS, run a command on the server, apt on the host, etc. — do not ask for IP, login, or distro unless they volunteered it. Assume access is already wired.

Fixed wrapper

Use one shell invocation:

ssh -F /data/.ssh/config vps 'REMOTE_COMMAND_HERE'
  • Host alias vps, config /data/.ssh/config, keys and UserKnownHostsFile live on the mounted /data volume (on the host: mgarlbot data dir).

Non-interactive apt on Debian/Ubuntu:

ssh -F /data/.ssh/config vps 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && apt-get install -y PACKAGE_NAME'

After install, verify: ssh -F /data/.ssh/config vps 'command -v NAME || NAME --version'.

Do not confuse with the container

  • apt install without ssh ... vps installs into the container (often fails without root). For the host, always prefix ssh -F /data/.ssh/config vps '...'.
  • docker / docker compose against the host daemon — use the compose/socket setup on that machine, not this SSH wrapper, unless the user asked for OS-level edits on the host.

Rules

  • Never paste private keys or secret material from ~/.ssh.
  • Do not suggest destructive host commands (rm -rf /, disk wipe, etc.).
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. 8d ago First seen · 40 lines · 23 tokens per session scan C 9e717b6b1651

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vps_host_ssh is a skill published in the GitHub repository frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 453 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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