sysadmin-maintain

sysadmin-maintain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HermeticOrmus/linux-sysadmin-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance skill for Debian and Ubuntu Linux machines. It checks updates, packages, logs, disk space, services, security updates, and backups, while requiring confirmation before potentially destructive cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Updating packages, checking system errors, reviewing disk and services, cleaning unused package data with approval, and verifying backups.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable server-upkeep checklist and adds a pause before actions that could remove or replace data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Updating packages, checking system errors, reviewing disk and services, cleaning unused package data with approval, and verifying backups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hermeticormus/linux-sysadmin-skills/sysadmin-maintain
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 HermeticOrmus/linux-sysadmin-skills --skill sysadmin-maintain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/linux-sysadmin-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 267 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00267
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00107
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9154c94edd84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sysadmin-maintain 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.

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.

skills/sysadmin-maintain/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

System maintenance

Perform routine maintenance on a Debian/Ubuntu Linux machine. Run each step carefully and report findings. Ask before any potentially destructive operation.

Maintenance checklist

  1. Updates: check and install updates (apt update && apt upgrade).
  2. Cleanup: remove unused packages (apt autoremove).
  3. Cache: clean the package cache if needed (apt clean).
  4. Logs: check system logs for issues (journalctl -p 3 -b).
  5. Disk space: check disk usage (df -h).
  6. Services: verify critical services are running (systemctl is-active <service>).
  7. Security: check for security updates.
  8. Backup: verify backup systems are working and have a recent successful run.

Run each step carefully and report findings. Ask before performing potentially destructive operations such as package removal, cache clearing, or anything that deletes or replaces files.


See full content at https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/linux-sysadmin-skills.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 9154c94edd84

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sysadmin-maintain is a skill published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/linux-sysadmin-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 267 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.