ssl-proxy-troubleshoot

ssl-proxy-troubleshoot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/OpenSpace. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,681 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for SSL certificates, proxy settings, and connections to government websites.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps test requests, compare connection methods, and diagnose access problems with government data sources.
Why use it?
It helps identify why a request fails even when the website is publicly available, including certificate errors, proxy blocks, and access restrictions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps test requests, compare connection methods, and diagnose access problems with government data sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/openspace/ssl-proxy-troubleshoot
About the project

OpenSpace is a skill-management layer for AI agents that stores, retrieves, evaluates, shares, and improves reusable workflows. It is intended for people using multiple coding agents who want skills to be reused and refined based on task outcomes. The catalogue provides 200 skills for use with OpenSpace and the agents it supports.

HKUDS/OpenSpace · 7,766 stars · on GitHub

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 HKUDS/OpenSpace --skill ssl-proxy-troubleshoot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/OpenSpace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,681 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 9 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 139
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 57
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 71
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 79
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 82
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 99
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 199
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Tool Misuse · line 212
    Tool defaults are unsafe or overly permissive (e.g. disabled TLS verification, no authentication, world-writable permissions). Unsafe defaults widen the attack surface.
    Fix: Override unsafe defaults with secure settings (verify=True, auth required, restrictive permissions). Review and harden all tool configurations.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 70
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00020 $0.01681
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00672
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00168

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c7a7195bed2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ssl-proxy-troubleshoot scanned grade A 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
benchmarks/gdpval/skills/ssl-proxy-troubleshoot/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SSL/Proxy Troubleshooting for Government Websites

This skill provides a systematic approach to diagnosing and resolving SSL certificate and proxy connectivity issues when accessing government websites, which often have stricter security configurations than commercial sites.

When to Use This Skill

  • Cannot access a government or institutional website
  • SSL certificate validation errors occur
  • Proxy configuration blocks or interferes with requests
  • Primary data sources are intermittently or persistently inaccessible

Systematic Troubleshooting Workflow

Step 1: Diagnose the Connection Issue

First, identify what type of connectivity problem you're facing:

import requests
import ssl

url = "https://example.gov/data"

# Test basic connectivity
try:
    response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
    print(f"Status: {response.status_code}")
except requests.exceptions.SSLError as e:
    print(f"SSL Error: {e}")
except requests.exceptions.ProxyError as e:
    print(f"Proxy Error: {e}")
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
    print(f"Connection Error: {e}")
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Other Error: {e}")

Step 2: Try Protocol Variations

Government sites sometimes have misconfigured redirects or support only specific protocols:

urls_to_try = [
    "https://example.gov/data",
    "http://example.gov/data",  # Try unencrypted
    "https://www.example.gov/data",  # Try www subdomain
    "http://www.example.gov/data",
]

for url in urls_to_try:
    try:
        response = requests.get(url, timeout=10, verify=False)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print(f"Success with: {url}")
            break
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Failed {url}: {e}")

Step 3: Disable SSL Verification (Temporary Debug)

Only use this for debugging. If it works, the issue is SSL certificate-related:

# Option A: Disable verification entirely (debug only)
response = requests.get(url, verify=False, timeout=30)

# Option B: Use custom SSL context with relaxed settings
import ssl
ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
ssl_context.check_hostname = False
ssl_context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

response = requests.get(url, verify=False, timeout=30)

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 243 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A c7a7195bed2e

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ssl-proxy-troubleshoot is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/OpenSpace (7,766 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,681 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (makes network calls, runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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