sabnzbd

sabnzbd is a skill for Claude Code from jmagar/claude-homelab. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,360 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A control interface for SABnzbd, an application that downloads files from Usenet, a distributed discussion and file-sharing network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view queues and history, add NZB downloads, pause or resume jobs, change speed limits, manage categories, retry failed downloads, and inspect warnings or server statistics.
Why use it?
It gives you one way to monitor and control Usenet downloads instead of managing the queue manually in SABnzbd.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the homelab-core plugin — 18 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to view queues and history, add NZB downloads, pause or resume jobs, change speed limits, manage categories, retry failed downloads, and inspect warnings or server statistics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmagar/claude-homelab/sabnzbd
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 sabnzbd
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 sabnzbd/plugin install sabnzbd after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,360 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00071 $0.01360
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00680
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00136

Measured 12d ago against content hash cb7ae7ec40df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

sabnzbd scanned grade B 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (load-env.sh, scripts/sab-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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

**Security:** Never commit `.env` file. Set permissions: `chmod 600 ~/.claude-homelab/.env`
skills/sabnzbd/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SABnzbd API

⚠️ MANDATORY SKILL INVOCATION ⚠️

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

  • "SABnzbd status", "NZB queue", "Usenet downloads"
  • "pause SAB", "resume downloads", "delete NZB"
  • "SAB history", "download speed", "SABnzbd"
  • Any mention of SABnzbd or Usenet download management

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

Manage Usenet downloads via SABnzbd's REST API.

Purpose

This skill provides read and write access to your SABnzbd Usenet downloader:

  • Monitor download queue and history
  • Add NZB files by URL or upload
  • Control downloads (pause, resume, delete)
  • Adjust download speed limits
  • Manage categories and post-processing scripts
  • Retry failed downloads
  • View server statistics and warnings

Operations include both read and write actions. Always confirm before deleting downloads with file deletion.

Setup

Credentials: ~/.claude-homelab/.env

SABNZBD_URL="http://localhost:8080"
SABNZBD_API_KEY="your-api-key-from-config-general"

Get your API key from SABnzbd Config → General → Security.

Security: Never commit .env file. Set permissions: chmod 600 ~/.claude-homelab/.env

Quick Reference

Queue Status

# Full queue
./scripts/sab-api.sh queue

# With filters
./scripts/sab-api.sh queue --limit 10 --category tv

# Specific job
./scripts/sab-api.sh queue --nzo-id SABnzbd_nzo_xxxxx

Add NZB

# By URL (indexer link)
./scripts/sab-api.sh add "https://indexer.com/get.php?guid=..."

# With options
./scripts/sab-api.sh add "URL" --name "My Download" --category movies --priority high

# By local file
./scripts/sab-api.sh add-file /path/to/file.nzb --category tv

Priority: force, high, normal, low, paused, duplicate

Control Queue

./scripts/sab-api.sh pause              # Pause all
./scripts/sab-api.sh resume             # Resume all
./scripts/sab-api.sh pause-job <nzo_id>
./scripts/sab-api.sh resume-job <nzo_id>
./scripts/sab-api.sh delete <nzo_id>    # Keep files
./scripts/sab-api.sh delete <nzo_id> --files  # Delete files too
./scripts/sab-api.sh purge              # Clear queue

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 173 lines · 71 tokens per session scan B cb7ae7ec40df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sabnzbd is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagar/claude-homelab (78 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,360 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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