Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG --skill vmware-vm-crash-recoverygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTGWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00047 | $0.00572 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00286 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00114 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00057 |
Grade A, and why
vmware-vm-crash-recovery 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 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.
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.
What it actually says
VMware VM Crash Recovery (Host Power Loss)
Use when a VMware Workstation VM fails to boot after the host machine black-screened or was force-shut-down while the VM was running, with errors like:
- "The specified virtual disk needs repair"
- "Cannot open the disk ... or one of the snapshot disks it depends on"
- "Module 'Disk' power on failed"
Prerequisites
- VMware Workstation installed (vmware-vdiskmanager.exe at
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\) - Full backup of the VM folder exists (CONFIRM before acting)
- Administrator access on the host
Step-by-Step
1. Confirm backup exists
Ask the user. Do NOT proceed without confirmed backup.
2. Remove stale lock files
Delete all .lck directories in the VM folder.
3. Read the VMware log to find the exact error
Tail the latest vmware.log. Look for lines: DISKLIB-SPARSE, DISKLIB-LINK, Disk needs repair
4. Inspect the .vmsd file to understand the snapshot chain
Read VMname.vmsd — verify which delta disk (000001, 000002, etc.) is the current/corrupted one.
5. Repair with vmware-vdiskmanager -R
Run on the specific corrupted delta disk:
& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-vdiskmanager.exe' -R "path\to\VM\disk-00000X.vmdk"
6. Power on and verify
& 'C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe' -T ws start "path\to\VM\VM.vmx"
Check the log for: "Windows Boot Manager", "Firmware has transitioned to runtime"
7. Advise user
- Take a fresh snapshot after boot
- Consider snapshot consolidation after verification
Pitfalls
- On Windows with git-bash/MSYS2, use BACKSLASHES in PowerShell paths, not forward slashes — bash expands /c/ paths and breaks quoting
- -R works on twoGbMaxExtentSparse delta disks despite docs saying "monolithic flat only"
- The corrupted disk is always the latest delta (00000X), never the base
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 · 53 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 651fa021118e
vmware-vm-crash-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository MilkyWay008/Hermes-OTG (15 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 572 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
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