ping-host

ping-host is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KeyArgo/custodian-kernel. It costs 17 tokens per session (112 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A host connectivity checker that sends ICMP ping packets and reports round-trip time (RTT) and lost packets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test basic network connectivity and measure packet loss and response time.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish unreachable hosts from connections that are working but slow or unreliable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test basic network connectivity and measure packet loss and response time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/keyargo/custodian-kernel/ping-host
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 KeyArgo/custodian-kernel --skill ping-host
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KeyArgo/custodian-kernel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 ping-host

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/keyargo/custodian-kernel/ping-host.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/keyargo/custodian-kernel/ping-host)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/keyargo/custodian-kernel/ping-host"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/keyargo/custodian-kernel/ping-host.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 112 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00112
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00056
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured 4d ago against content hash 499f29ba69be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ping-host 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/execute.py), 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.

custodian/bundled_skills/monitoring/ping-host/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Ping Host

Send ICMP pings to a host and report RTT and packet loss

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. 4d ago First seen · 20 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 499f29ba69be

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ping-host is a skill published in the GitHub repository KeyArgo/custodian-kernel (118 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 112 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.