rented-server-setup

rented-server-setup is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 258 tokens per session (4,798 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for running an open-source AI model on rented cloud hardware instead of on your own computer. It compares a pay-per-use API with a dedicated GPU server and explains how each is hosted and accessed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select and set up an OVHcloud AI endpoint or a RunPod GPU server with model serving and access for apps or a team.
Why use it?
It helps you choose between paying only when the model is used and paying continuously for a private rented machine, based on usage and privacy needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 109 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to select and set up an OVHcloud AI endpoint or a RunPod GPU server with model serving and access for apps or a team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/rented-server-setup
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 rented-server-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 109 skills.

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Per session 258 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,798 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 132
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00258 $0.04798
Opus 5 $0.00129 $0.02399
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00960
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00480

Measured 7d ago against content hash d1c89e158f2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rented-server-setup scanned grade A 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **OVH**: https://www.ovh.com/manager/ (redirects to their regional manager) → Public Cloud → AI & Machine Learning → AI Endpoints → API keys. The keyless trial at 2 requests/min can prove the route before they create a
plugins/all-skills/skills/rented-server-setup/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rented Server Setup

The cloud counterpart to scan-my-machine. That skill tells someone what their laptop can run. This one runs what it cannot, and it carries two builds because "run a big model in the cloud" has two honest answers depending on usage shape and what "private" means:

  • Route A, the EU endpoint. OVHcloud AI Endpoints: a per-token OpenAI-compatible API run by a French company in Gravelines, France. Cents per million tokens, zero idle cost solo. Two shapes: solo, where each user's own app points at the endpoint, and team, where one shared Open WebUI runs on a small OVH VPS for about €5 a month. Multi-tenant either way.
  • Route B, the private pod. One RunPod Secure Cloud pod in a region the user picks, two locked doors: Open WebUI behind its login for the team, vLLM's API behind a generated key for Claude Code and other apps. Single-tenant, any model with a vLLM recipe, one shared URL for a team. Bills every hour it exists, used or not.

The order is: questions first, then two named recommendations with prices computed from the answers, then the user picks a provider and everything after is yours: token, wire, prove, report. Beyond creating their own credential they should not have to open a dashboard, paste a URL, or copy an endpoint ID.

Two things are never automatic. The spend, in references/cost-gate.md. And on Route B the region, which the user chooses and you never default.

1. Before you start

Run the check in references/environment-check.md. It is deliberately short: nothing here runs on the user's machine, so do not scan their hardware and do not report on it.

If a local model would do the job, they should be in local-ai-setup instead. Say that in one line and move on.

2. The questions

One AskUserQuestion, three questions, no provider named yet. Full option text in references/model-picker.md section 0.

  1. What should the model be best at. Show the categories from the open-model leaderboard at https://onyx.app/open-llm-leaderboard — overall, coding, math, chat, reasoning — plus a "name a specific model" option. The recommended default is Qwen3.6-27B: A-tier overall at only 27B, cheap on both providers. Verify whatever they pick live: the OVH catalog (ovh-endpoints.md section 2) for Route A, model-sources.md for Route B.
  2. Who will use it. Solo, or a team on one shared URL.
  3. Usage rhythm. Spiky and on-and-off, or heavy and sustained. This decides the whole cost story, which is why it is asked before any price is shown.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 7d ago First seen · 218 lines · 258 tokens per session scan A d1c89e158f2c

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rented-server-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 258 tokens to every session and 4,798 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.