scan-my-machine

scan-my-machine is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (911 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only hardware scan that checks a computer's memory, graphics hardware, available storage, and installed software, then matches the result to local AI models. Local AI models run on the computer instead of sending the work to a cloud service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find usable memory and GPU capacity, identify models that fit, estimate expected speed, and see what local models are already installed.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about whether a computer can run a particular model and avoids reporting specifications from a sandbox or container. It does not install, download, or change anything.

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 find usable memory and GPU capacity, identify models that fit, estimate expected speed, and see what local models are already installed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/scan-my-machine
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 scan-my-machine
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.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 911 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 Excessive Agency · line 28
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00130 $0.00911
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00091

Measured 6d ago against content hash c851fa77da4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scan-my-machine 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 6d 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/scan-my-machine/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scan My Machine

Reads the machine's real memory and GPU, then names the local models that fit. Read-only: this skill never installs, downloads, or changes anything.

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. Detect the hardware
- [ ] 2. Work out the usable memory budget
- [ ] 3. Name the models that fit
- [ ] 4. Report what is already installed
- [ ] 5. Render the HTML report

1. Detect the hardware

Run the detection commands for the user's OS from references/detect-hardware.md. Get: total memory, GPU and its VRAM, chip name, free disk. Never ask the user for specs you can detect yourself. If a command fails, try the fallback in that file before asking.

2. Work out the usable memory budget

Take the memory that matters (discrete GPU VRAM, or unified memory on Apple Silicon) and multiply by 0.75. That headroom is for conversation context and the app itself. Report the raw figure and the budget separately so the user sees why they differ.

3. Name the models that fit

Match the budget against the tier table in references/model-tiers.md. Output named models with their quantization tag and expected tokens per second, never a tier number alone. State one primary pick and at most two alternates. If the budget spans two tiers, pick the lower one.

4. Report what is already installed

Run the inventory commands in references/detect-hardware.md to find existing Ollama, LM Studio, Open WebUI and already-pulled models. Tell the user what they already have so they do not download something twice.

5. Render the HTML report

Deliver the result as a rendered HTML page, not as chat text. Build it from references/report-template.md using the scan-my-machine layout in section 4, save it to the Desktop, and open it. Keep the chat reply to two lines plus the file path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 6d ago First seen · 63 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A c851fa77da4d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scan-my-machine is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 911 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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