tower-template

A set of ready-made GitHub Actions workflows for checking whether services and websites are reachable. GitHub Actions runs automated jobs in response to schedules or repository events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check TCP, HTTP, HTTPS and DNS targets every six hours, or to check certificate expiry daily. Manual one-off checks are also supported through GitHub's workflow controls.
Why use it?
It removes the need to create and schedule these monitoring workflows from scratch. It can also check whether TLS certificates are nearing expiry, helping catch connection and certificate problems early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/mismatched/tower/tower-template
Any agent
npx skills add mismatched/tower --skill tower-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mismatched/tower

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 915 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00000 $0.00915
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00092

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9f851af0ce4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tower-template 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 2d 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/tower-template/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tower Template — GitHub Actions Health Checks

Template repo: github.com/mismatched/tower-template — pre-built GitHub Actions workflows for running tower health checks in CI.

Quick Reference

Goal Approach
Add health checks to a repo Click Use this template on tower-template, edit targets, commit
Check TCP + HTTP + HTTPS + DNS Use tower-health.yml (every 6h)
Check TLS cert expiry Use tls-cert-expiry.yml (daily at 8am) or add warn_if_expiring via config
Manual one-off check Use workflow_dispatch trigger in either workflow
Cert expiry warning Use config input with a YAML file (composite action doesn't expose warn_if_expiring directly)
Install tower action in existing workflow uses: mismatched/tower@master with tcp, http, https, dns, ws, config, or timeout inputs

Included Workflows

Workflow Schedule Checks Inputs
tower-health.yml Every 6 hours + manual tcp, http, https, dns Quick in-line inputs
tls-cert-expiry.yml Daily at 8am + manual https (no warn) Demonstrates cert-only check

Action Inputs (mismatched/tower)

Input Description Example
config Path to tower config YAML (needs actions/checkout first) .github/tower/checks.yml
tcp TCP host:port to check example.com:443
http HTTP/HTTPS URL for status check https://example.com
https Hostname for TLS cert check example.com
dns Address to resolve example.com
ws WebSocket URL to check wss://example.com/ws
timeout Default timeout duration 10s (default)
version Tower version to install latest (default)

The action fails (exit code 1) if any check returns "OK": false.

Cert Expiry Warnings

The composite action's inline inputs (tcp, http, https, dns, ws) don't support warn_if_expiring. To get cert expiry alerts, use a config file:

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 89 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9f851af0ce4c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tower-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository mismatched/tower (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 915 tokens. 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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