shellbox-cli

A workflow for using shellbox.dev, a service that provides temporary Linux virtual machines that can be accessed remotely.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for managing virtual-machine lifecycles, SSH access, keepalive and scheduled modes, custom domains, IPv6 and mosh connections, billing, SSH keys, file transfers, and remote development setups.
Why use it?
It organizes the steps for creating, managing, connecting to, and transferring files to these temporary machines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joegoldin/agent-skills/shellbox-cli
Any agent
npx skills add joegoldin/agent-skills --skill shellbox-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joegoldin/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,873 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00108 $0.03873
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.01937
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00775
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00387

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3eceb39654c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

shellbox-cli 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 2d 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 # only if ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 doesn't exist

Makes network callslowCapability

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

sh <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
skills/shellbox-cli/SKILL.md · 284 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 284 lines · 108 tokens per session scan C 3eceb39654c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shellbox-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository joegoldin/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 3,873 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, 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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