runpodctl

runpodctl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaelic-ghost/socket. It costs 13 tokens per session (3,153 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool for managing RunPod GPU workloads, including GPU pods, serverless endpoints, templates, volumes, and models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure access, inspect available commands, and manage RunPod infrastructure for GPU-based workloads.
Why use it?
It lets developers manage remote compute resources from a terminal instead of handling each resource manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cloud-inference-skills plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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/gaelic-ghost/socket/runpodctl
Any agent
npx skills add gaelic-ghost/socket --skill runpodctl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaelic-ghost/socket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cloud-inference-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,153 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 $0.00013 $0.03153
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00315

Measured yesterday against content hash adebd9a4cd68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

runpodctl 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://cli.runpod.net | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sSL https://cli.runpod.net | bash
plugins/cloud-inference-skills/skills/runpodctl/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Runpodctl

Manage GPU pods, serverless endpoints, templates, volumes, and models.

Install

# Any platform (official installer)
curl -sSL https://cli.runpod.net | bash

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install runpod/runpodctl/runpodctl

# macOS (manual — universal binary)
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && curl -sL https://github.com/runpod/runpodctl/releases/latest/download/runpodctl-darwin-all.tar.gz | tar xz -C ~/.local/bin

# Linux
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin && curl -sL https://github.com/runpod/runpodctl/releases/latest/download/runpodctl-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xz -C ~/.local/bin

# Windows (PowerShell)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/runpod/runpodctl/releases/latest/download/runpodctl-windows-amd64.zip -OutFile runpodctl.zip; Expand-Archive runpodctl.zip -DestinationPath $env:LOCALAPPDATA\runpodctl; [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $env:Path + ";$env:LOCALAPPDATA\runpodctl", 'User')

Ensure ~/.local/bin is on your PATH (add export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc).

Quick start

runpodctl doctor                    # First time setup (API key + SSH)
runpodctl --help                    # See current top-level commands
runpodctl pod create --help         # Inspect exact current flags before creating
runpodctl gpu list                  # See available GPUs
runpodctl hub search vllm           # Find a hub repo
runpodctl serverless create --hub-id <id> --name "my-vllm"  # Deploy from hub
runpodctl template search pytorch   # Find a template
runpodctl pod create --template-id runpod-torch-v21 --gpu-id "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090"  # Create from template
runpodctl pod list                  # List your pods

API key: https://runpod.io/console/user/settings

Live Help Is Authoritative

Live runpodctl --help output is authoritative for exact flags, aliases, and command syntax. Use this skill for workflows, decision rules, safety notes, and common examples.

runpodctl --help
runpodctl <resource> --help
runpodctl <resource> <action> --help

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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 · 261 lines · 13 tokens per session scan C adebd9a4cd68

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runpodctl is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaelic-ghost/socket (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 3,153 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.

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