remote-runner-dev

remote-runner-dev is a skill for Claude Code from jianzhichun/emerge. It costs 51 tokens per session (3,563 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A development guide for code that runs on a remote runner: a separate computer or device where the required tools, hardware, or graphical environment are available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy scripts to a runner, manage its watchdog process, investigate session or tool-access problems, and set up runners on platforms such as Windows, Linux, or mobile-device hosts.
Why use it?
It helps avoid debugging the wrong process or environment when deployed code needs access to local software, a GUI, hardware, or platform-specific tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/repl_admin.py runner-install-url --target-profile <profile-key> --pretty.

Part of the emerge plugin — 15 skills, 10 commands, 3 agents, 24 hooks shipped together

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/jianzhichun/emerge
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jianzhichun/emerge/remote-runner-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install emerge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 10 commands, 3 agents, 24 hooks.

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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 3,563 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.03563
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01782
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00713
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00356

Measured 6d ago against content hash 310f241b4513, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

remote-runner-dev 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 6d 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.

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.

Or open **Cockpit → Monitors → Add Runner** and copy the `curl … | bash` / `irm … | iex` lines. The script downloads the runner bundle from the daemon, writes `~/.emerge/runner-config.json`, installs optional pip deps, a

Makes network callslowCapability

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

Or open **Cockpit → Monitors → Add Runner** and copy the `curl … | bash` / `irm … | iex` lines. The script downloads the runner bundle from the daemon, writes `~/.emerge/runner-config.json`, installs optional pip deps, a
skills/remote-runner-dev/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Remote Runner Dev

Overview

Emerge's remote_runner.py is a lightweight HTTP execution server that runs on any machine where the actual tools live — a Windows VM with CAD software, a Linux HPC node with simulation tools, a GPU workstation, a mobile device emulator host. The dev machine stays clean; all environment-specific execution happens on the runner.

Core principle: deploy via icc_exec HTTP — not SSH exec, not SCP. The runner is its own deployment channel.

Architecture

Dev machine                       Remote machine (any OS)
────────────────                  ──────────────────────────────────
emerge project dir    deploy ─►   <plugin_root>/scripts/
  scripts/           icc_exec      runner_watchdog.py  (daemon)
  connectors/          HTTP ─►       └─ remote_runner.py (port <N>)
  scripts/repl_admin.py                   └─ executes icc_exec calls
                                          └─ has access to local tools,
                                             GUI, COM objects, hardware

The runner executes code in its own process environment — not in the SSH session that deployed it. This distinction matters when the tool requires:

  • A specific user session (Windows COM, GUI automation)
  • Local hardware (GPU, USB device, simulator)
  • Environment variables set at desktop login (conda env, license server, display)

Key Source Files

File Role
scripts/remote_runner.py HTTP server; executes icc_exec only. Also contains RunnerSSEClient (connects to daemon SSE, dispatches popup commands)
scripts/operator_popup.py Popup renderer. Persistent tk-main thread + _tk_dispatch queue; all popup types use tkinter Toplevel dialogs
scripts/runner_watchdog.py Keeps runner alive; restarts on crash or .watchdog-restart signal
scripts/repl_admin.py CLI: runner-install-url, runner-deploy, runner-status
scripts/runner_client.py Routes requests to runner by target_profile

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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. 6d ago First seen · 287 lines · 51 tokens per session scan C 310f241b4513

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remote-runner-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository jianzhichun/emerge (107 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,563 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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