arena-bridge

arena-bridge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from IvanSkainet/arena-agent. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A protocol for connecting AI coding agents to Skainet Bridge, a local service that links an agent to the operator's computer, tools, files, and hardware. It covers authenticated connections through HTTP/REST and MCP, a standard way for agents to use tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to connect to a local or remotely exposed bridge, run MCP tools, use persistent host storage, offload GPU or game-engine work, and manage background processes.
Why use it?
It helps an agent work around restrictive sandboxes that limit storage, graphics, computing power, or long-running processes. It provides instructions for moving those tasks to the host machine.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/check_bridge.py.

Good fit Use it to connect to a local or remotely exposed bridge, run MCP tools, use persistent host storage, offload GPU or game-engine work, and manage background processes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IvanSkainet/arena-agent
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/arena-bridge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,216 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00000 $0.01216
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00608
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00122

Measured 11d ago against content hash 62f2a0a77184, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arena-bridge scanned grade A 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 11d 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.

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8765/health
skills/arena-bridge/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

arena-bridge (Skainet Bridge Skill)

Skill and protocol specification for AI agents (Arena.ai Agent Mode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and custom agentic frameworks) interacting with Skainet Bridge.


1. Overview & Purpose

Skainet Bridge is an authenticated, local-first bridge that breaks AI agents out of restrictive sandboxes (such as Arena.ai's 128 MB snapshot cap and GPU/X11 absence) and connects them directly to the operator's real machine, local tools, file system, and hardware.

This skill equips agents with the exact operational protocol:

  1. Connecting to the bridge (Local loopback, Tailscale Funnel, Cloudflare, ngrok, bore);
  2. Bypassing sandbox filesystem limits (persistent storage on host, >128 MB);
  3. Offloading heavy compute, game engines (e.g. Godot), and GPU tasks to the host;
  4. Executing MCP tools and managing long-running background processes;
  5. Structured task execution via Spec-Kit (T0..Tn) and Serena session recall.

2. Discovery & Connection

Connection Transports

The bridge exposes an HTTP/REST API and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint:

  • Local host: http://127.0.0.1:8765
  • Tailscale Funnel: https://<node-name>.ts.net
  • Public Tunnels: ngrok (https://<id>.ngrok-free.dev), Cloudflare Quick Tunnels, or bore.

Authentication

Every request requires the master token in the Authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>

Tip: On first launch, start.bat / start.sh automatically generates token.txt and copies the token to the clipboard.

Diagnostics & Handshake

To verify connectivity from inside the agent sandbox:

python scripts/check_bridge.py

Or query endpoints directly:

# 1. Check health & version
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8765/health

# 2. Authenticated self-descriptor (profile & active tools)
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat token.txt)" http://127.0.0.1:8765/v1/self

# 3. Active tunnel & external URL status
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat token.txt)" http://127.0.0.1:8765/v1/tunnels/status

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 11d ago First seen · 109 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 62f2a0a77184

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arena-bridge is a skill published in the GitHub repository IvanSkainet/arena-agent (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,216 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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