inkbox-tunnels

inkbox-tunnels is a skill for Claude Code from inkbox-ai/inkbox. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for exposing a local application through a public HTTPS Inkbox address. It covers Python, TypeScript, and Rust runtimes, request forwarding, TLS choices, and keeping the local service available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish a local HTTP server, configure an in-process request handler, choose edge or pass-through TLS, and check that the service is live.
Why use it?
It lets outside services reach a process running on your machine without opening an inbound port or needing a fixed public IP address. It also explains whether Inkbox or your process handles HTTPS encryption.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the inkbox plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to publish a local HTTP server, configure an in-process request handler, choose edge or pass-through TLS, and check that the service is live.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inkbox-ai/inkbox/inkbox-tunnels
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add inkbox-ai/inkbox --skill inkbox-tunnels
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inkbox-ai/inkbox

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inkbox, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,830 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 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 System Prompt Leakage · line 325
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 64
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00047 $0.03830
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01915
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00766
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00383

Measured 10d ago against content hash 61005e9e26cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inkbox-tunnels 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 10d 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/inkbox-tunnels/SKILL.md · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inkbox Tunnels

Inkbox Tunnels expose a process running on the developer's machine (or any POSIX host) at a public https://{handle}.inkboxwire.com URL. The SDK opens an outbound HTTP/2 connection to the data plane; inbound third-party traffic rides back over that same connection. No inbound port to open, no static IP needed.

Tunnels are an identity property: every agent identity owns exactly one tunnel, and tunnel_name == agent_handle. There is no standalone "create tunnel" call — the tunnel is provisioned atomically by inkbox.createIdentity(...). Pre-existing identities created before this rollout already have tunnels (the migration backfilled them).

Two TLS modes:

Mode Who terminates TLS When to pick
edge (default) Inkbox terminates at the edge, forwards plaintext requests as envelopes Most apps. Simpler. The SDK sees parsed Requests / ASGI scopes.
passthrough The SDK terminates TLS in your process When customers must speak directly to your cert (mTLS, custom SNI), or when end-to-end encryption is a hard requirement.

Both modes accept either a forward_to URL (proxy to a local HTTP server) or an in-process callable (Fetch handler in TS, ASGI app in Python). WebSocket upgrades work on either.

Platform: tunnels require POSIX. connect() raises on Windows; read-only control-plane calls work everywhere.


Authentication

The data plane authenticates with the same API key the SDK client was constructed with. Two options:

  • Admin-scoped key — can connect any tunnel in the org.
  • Identity-scoped key — only valid for the tunnel attached to its scoped identity.

For a fresh agent bootstrap, mint an identity-scoped key after createIdentity:

identity = inkbox.create_identity("my-app")
scoped_key = inkbox.api_keys.create(label="my-app agent", scoped_identity_id=identity.id)
# Hand `scoped_key.api_key` to the agent process. Its `Inkbox(api_key=...)`
# will use it for both REST and the tunnel data plane.

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 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. 10d ago First seen · 384 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 61005e9e26cb

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inkbox-tunnels is a skill published in the GitHub repository inkbox-ai/inkbox (78 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,830 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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