install-openwebui

install-openwebui is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (1,058 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An installation and setup procedure for Open WebUI, a browser-based chat interface for local AI models, connected to Ollama, a program that runs those models on a computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the computer, install or start the required software, connect Open WebUI to Ollama, and confirm that the chat works.
Why use it?
It turns a setup that normally requires several technical checks and commands into a verified local chat that runs in the browser.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the local-ai plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check the computer, install or start the required software, connect Open WebUI to Ollama, and confirm that the chat works.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/install-openwebui
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill install-openwebui
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install local-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,058 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 $0.00152 $0.01058
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00529
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00106

Measured 5d ago against content hash a0be4d236de1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-openwebui 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 5d 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.

plugins/local-ai/skills/install-openwebui/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install Open WebUI

Turns the most technical local AI option into the easiest one. Ends with a working chat in the browser, not a list of commands.

Before you start

Run the check in references/environment-check.md first. These skills need a shell on the user's own machine. If the environment is a sandbox or container, stop and tell the user to run this in Claude Code on the computer they want to set up. Do not report detected specs from a sandbox: wrong specs are worse than none.

Steps

Track progress:

Task Progress:
- [ ] 1. Check what is already there
- [ ] 2. Get consent, with sizes
- [ ] 3. Install and start
- [ ] 4. Wire the connection
- [ ] 5. Prove it works
- [ ] 6. Render the handover report

1. Check what is already there

Run the preflight block in references/install-steps.md. Establish: is Ollama installed and running, which models are pulled, is Open WebUI installed, is anything already on port 8080. Never install something that is already present.

If the user already ran /scan-my-machine, reuse that result instead of re-detecting.

2. Get consent, with sizes

Before installing or downloading anything, tell the user in one message: what will be installed, the download size in gigabytes, and roughly how long it will take. Then stop and wait for a yes.

Never skip this. A silent multi-gigabyte download is the single worst failure mode for this skill.

3. Install and start

Follow references/install-steps.md in order: Ollama, then a model chosen for their hardware, then Open WebUI, then start the server. Run the server detached so it survives the session. Report the log path.

4. Wire the connection

Set the Ollama connection to http://localhost:11434. Read the "Which URL goes where" section of references/install-steps.md before touching any connection setting, because the two ports are easy to swap and the failure is silent.

5. Prove it works

Send one real prompt through the stack and show the reply. Do not report success on an HTTP 200 alone. Then give the user the URL and stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 76 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A a0be4d236de1

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install-openwebui is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 1,058 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-05.

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