A guide for Prowlarr, a tool that searches multiple torrent and Usenet indexers from one place. Indexers are services that list downloadable releases.

Searching for releases, filtering results by download type or category, checking indexer health, managing indexers, and syncing them with Sonarr or Radarr.

It avoids checking each indexer separately and helps keep their connections and settings organized across media apps.

prowlarr — Skill for Claude Code by jmagar/claude-homelab

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 jmagar/claude-homelab --skill prowlarr

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagar/claude-homelab

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install homelab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin prowlarr — /plugin install prowlarr after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,556 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

medium Rogue Agent · line 31
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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00068	$0.01556
Opus 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00622
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00311
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00156

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 65faefa3db45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prowlarr 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (load-env.sh, scripts/prowlarr-api.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/prowlarr/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prowlarr Skill

⚠️ MANDATORY SKILL INVOCATION ⚠️

YOU MUST invoke this skill (NOT optional) when the user mentions ANY of these triggers:

"search for a torrent", "search indexers", "find a release"
"search Prowlarr", "Prowlarr indexers", "indexer search"
"check indexer status", "test indexers", "Prowlarr stats"
"list indexers", "sync indexers", "push indexers to Sonarr"
Any mention of Prowlarr or indexer management

Failure to invoke this skill when triggers occur violates your operational requirements.

Search across all your indexers and manage Prowlarr via API.

Purpose

This skill provides read and write access to your Prowlarr indexer aggregation:

Search for releases across all configured indexers
Filter searches by protocol (torrent/usenet) and category
List and monitor indexer health and statistics
Enable/disable/delete indexers
Sync indexer configurations to connected apps (Sonarr, Radarr)
Test indexer connectivity

Operations include both read and write actions. Always confirm before deleting or disabling indexers.

Setup

Credentials are stored in ~/.claude-homelab/.env:

PROWLARR_URL="http://localhost:9696"
PROWLARR_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Get your API key from: Prowlarr → Settings → General → Security → API Key

Quick Reference

Search Releases

# Basic search across all indexers
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh search "ubuntu 22.04"

# Search torrents only
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh search "ubuntu" --torrents

# Search usenet only
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh search "ubuntu" --usenet

# Search specific categories (2000=Movies, 5000=TV, 3000=Audio, 7000=Books)
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh search "inception" --category 2000

# TV search with TVDB ID
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh tv-search --tvdb 71663 --season 1 --episode 1

# Movie search with IMDB ID
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh movie-search --imdb tt0111161

List Indexers

# All indexers
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh indexers

# With status details
./scripts/prowlarr-api.sh indexers --verbose

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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.

2mo ago First seen · 206 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 65faefa3db45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prowlarr is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagar/claude-homelab (87 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,556 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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