krypton-vps-codex-app

krypton-vps-codex-app is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jturntdev/krypton. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,217 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guide for preparing a Linux VPS, which is a rented remote computer, as an SSH host for Codex App work. SSH is a secure way to control that computer from another device.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up Ubuntu tools, connecting Codex App over SSH, cloning repositories, checking the server, and running coding agents, terminal sessions, builds, tests, or development servers remotely.
Why use it?
It helps move coding work, repositories, tools, and development sessions from a local Mac to a remote server without confusing the app with the server itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the krypton plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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/jturntdev/krypton/krypton-vps-codex-app
Any agent
npx skills add jturntdev/krypton --skill krypton-vps-codex-app
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jturntdev/krypton

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install krypton, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for krypton-vps-codex-app

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jturntdev/krypton/krypton-vps-codex-app.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jturntdev/krypton/krypton-vps-codex-app)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jturntdev/krypton/krypton-vps-codex-app"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jturntdev/krypton/krypton-vps-codex-app.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,217 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00113 $0.03217
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01608
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00322

Measured 4d ago against content hash 51587100d1b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

krypton-vps-codex-app scanned grade B 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audit-vps-codex-app.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.

Reaches for credential filesmediumPrivilege escalation

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

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- `curl`
skills/krypton-vps-codex-app/SKILL.md · 374 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 374 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Krypton VPS Codex App

Overview

Turn a Linux VPS into the machine that does the work while the operator's Mac only displays and controls it. The target result is a working Codex App SSH project where commands, edits, builds, tests, tmux/cmux sessions, dev servers, and agent runs happen on the VPS.

Do not describe this as installing Codex App on the VPS. Codex App stays on the operator's Mac or Windows machine; the VPS needs the Codex CLI and repo toolchain so the app can start the remote Codex app server through SSH.

Use the current OpenAI Codex docs for Codex App specifics when facts may have changed. The durable setup facts this skill relies on are:

  • Codex App can add projects from an SSH host.
  • Codex reads concrete SSH aliases from ~/.ssh/config.
  • Remote project threads run commands and edit files on the remote host.
  • The remote host provides the repo files, credentials, tools, skills, MCP setup, browser/computer-use setup, and sandbox/approval behavior.
  • The remote codex command must be available on the remote user's login-shell PATH.

Responsibility Split

Codex can prepare commands, inspect SSH config, audit the VPS, bootstrap tools over SSH when it has access, clone the repo, run checks, and explain failures.

The operator must provide or complete these human steps:

  • Buy or provision the VPS if it does not exist yet.
  • Create or choose the SSH key pair used for the VPS.
  • Add an SSH public key in the VPS provider UI or otherwise grant SSH access.
  • Approve any edit to ~/.ssh/config, or add the SSH alias manually.
  • Choose how the VPS may access their GitHub repo.
  • Decide whether local-only config files should be recreated, copied, or skipped.
  • Keep private keys, provider passwords, API keys, and Codex auth files secret.
  • Complete Codex App Settings > Connections and choose the remote project folder.
  • Complete browser/device authentication when the flow requires user login.

First Response

Start by repeating the setup goal in plain English:

Read the full file on GitHub · 374 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 374 lines · 113 tokens per session scan B 51587100d1b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

krypton-vps-codex-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository jturntdev/krypton (130 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,217 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

ospec-goal

Create or advance a full OSpec goal using the current document, task graph, worker, review, and evidence workflow.

clawplays/ospec · 29 tokens

ospec

Document-driven OSpec workflow for initialization, change/goal routing, validation, archiving, and durable project knowledge.

clawplays/ospec · 26 tokens

ospec-change

Create or advance a lightweight OSpec change using the classic fast workflow.

clawplays/ospec · 18 tokens

ts-sdk-author

Design, build, verify, and publish production-grade TypeScript SDKs as npm packages inside a pnpm monorepo. Covers workspace layout, public API and module boundaries, plugin extension points, branded types and library-tuned tsconfig, tsdown bundling (vs tsup/tsc-only/unbuild), package.json exports with dual ESM+CJS…

mindfold-ai/Trellis · 219 tokens

first-principles-thinking

Systematic first principles thinking for any problem domain. Use when the user says "analyze from first principles", "第一性原理", "从根本分析", "从零开始思考", "think from scratch", "question this design", "is this the right approach", "challenge assumptions", "挑战假设", "为什么要这样做", "有没有更好的方案", "why are we doing it this way", or needs…

mindfold-ai/Trellis · 164 tokens

python-design

Python design patterns for CLI scripts and utilities — type-first development, deep modules, complexity management, and red flags. Use when reading, writing, reviewing, or refactoring Python files, especially in .trellis/scripts/ or any CLI/scripting context. Also activate when planning module structure, deciding…

mindfold-ai/Trellis · 73 tokens