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.
npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill remote-systems-administrationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00102 | $0.02039 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00051 | $0.01019 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00408 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00204 |
Grade B, and why
remote-systems-administration 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 9d 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
2. **Treating an SSH connection as proof of authority.** Connection success does not confirm sudo policy, host identity, or authorization for the change. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Remote Systems Administration
Use this as an operating decision layer, not a bag of remote commands. Unix-like systems share a vocabulary but not an implementation. Identify the target's platform and active control plane before choosing a command.
Operating contract
- Discover before changing. Record target identity, production status, OS and release, service manager, package manager, firewall, access route, privilege path, and current state. Do not infer them from hostname, memory, or inventory labels.
- Use the smallest valid control plane. Native SSH for a bounded one-host task; Ansible for repeatable desired state across a fleet; Paramiko only when a Python program genuinely needs SSH protocol control that the first two cannot provide.
- Protect access first. Before changing SSH, routing, DNS, a firewall, privilege escalation, or a network interface, establish a tested rollback and a second recovery path. Keep the current session alive until the new path works.
- Preview, constrain, verify. Limit the target set; use native validation, dry-run, diff, or a canary when available; then verify the affected service and its user-visible boundary. A zero exit code proves only that command ran.
- Report evidence, not a story. Preserve bounded per-host results: target, command category, before/after evidence, failures, rollback state, and the remaining uncertainty. Never paste secrets, keys, full configuration files, or unbounded logs into the response.
Run the shared classification probe in references/portable-operations.md, then load the matching OS/family overlay and run its command preflight. Select a mutation command only after the required preflight and safety gate.
Read-only discovery handoff
Use this compact format after a preflight. Fill a field only from observed evidence; otherwise write unknown or not supplied.
- Target and scope:
- Observed platform and control planes:
- Bounded evidence:
- Unknown or blocked:
- Next safe action:
What ships with it
20 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.
- evals/evals.json 11 KB
- README.md 4.4 KB
- references/ansible-administration-and-safety.md 29 KB
- references/ansible-runbooks-and-advanced-operations.md 30 KB
- references/ansible.md 4.6 KB
- references/fleet-automation.md 5.3 KB
- references/freebsd.md 9.3 KB
- references/linux-alpine.md 8.4 KB
- references/linux-arch.md 8.8 KB
- references/linux-debian-ubuntu.md 9.6 KB
- references/linux-rhel-fedora.md 9.7 KB
- references/linux-suse.md 8.7 KB
- references/linux.md 9.4 KB
- references/macos.md 10 KB
- references/netbsd.md 8.9 KB
- references/openbsd.md 9.0 KB
- references/portable-operations.md 4.9 KB
- references/safety-and-verification.md 4.2 KB
- references/source-index.md 12 KB
- templates/remote-change-plan.md 978 B
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 102 tokens per session scan B ba9474c6aaec
remote-systems-administration is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 2,039 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.
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