cmux-cloud

cmux-cloud is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from manaflow-ai/cmux-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for using cmux Cloud, which provides persistent Linux virtual machines that can run after your computer or terminal closes. It covers machines, sessions, file transfers, snapshots, ports, and desktops.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or attach to cloud machines, run commands or coding agents, move files, open ports or desktops, and snapshot, fork, or restore machines.
Why use it?
It lets you manage cloud development environments without treating a disconnected terminal as a lost machine. Persistent homes and reconnectable sessions keep work available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to create or attach to cloud machines, run commands or coding agents, move files, open ports or desktops, and snapshot, fork, or restore machines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manaflow-ai/cmux-skills/cmux-cloud
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 manaflow-ai/cmux-skills --skill cmux-cloud
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,945 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 8
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00080 $0.01945
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00194

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9d9a5855fb34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cmux-cloud 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 11d 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.

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.

skills/cmux-cloud/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cmux Cloud

Drive cmux Cloud machines (user-owned persistent Linux VMs) through the cmux CLI: create and attach, run commands and coding agents, move files, open ports and desktops, snapshot/fork/restore, and send notifications from inside a machine. Full per-command syntax lives in references/commands.md; cmux vm <sub> --help on the installed build is authoritative when they disagree.

Mental model

  • A machine is a persistent cloud VM owned by the signed-in cmux user. Its generated name (brave-otter) is its address everywhere; cmux vm rename sets a display label only. The cloud backend picks the provider; the machine outlives your panes, your Mac being closed, and reconnects.
  • Every machine runs a cmux session daemon (cmux-tui on current images, cmuxd-remote on older ones) that owns terminal sessions and scrollback. Clients (Mac panes, iOS) attach through short-lived leases minted by the backend; the transport depends on what the provider and image support. SSH is a fallback some providers and images cannot mint at all, and its absence is not an error.
  • New machines boot a desktop image (xfce + noVNC) plus a shell, with a persistent per-machine home. --base gives a shell-only machine.
  • Base is a separate single per-user persistent slot, pinned to the top of the sidebar. vm new mints fresh machines; vm base always reopens the same one.
  • Terminals on a machine live in its cmux-tui session (workspaces ws_…, terminals term_…). They keep running detached; cmux vm tree catalogs every surface (local and cloud) and every line is an address cmux vm open (machine targets) or cmux surface open (any entry, including This Mac) accepts, e.g. brave-otter/main/term_2f9c…, brave-otter:desktop, brave-otter:port/3000.
  • Pool machines (labeled agent-pool in vm ls) are provisioned by the vm run/vm agent router and reused for routed work. The router never drafts machines a person made by hand.
  • Plans cap active machine count and memory. cmux vm ls prints the meter (N of M machines on the <plan> plan) and, on free plans, when free cloud access expires.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 103 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 9d9a5855fb34

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cmux-cloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository manaflow-ai/cmux-skills (31 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,945 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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