vm-nebius-auth

vm-nebius-auth is a skill for Codex from nebius/nebius-physical-ai. It costs 64 tokens per session (533 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for authenticating the Nebius command-line tool on a remote development or operations machine without a browser on that machine. It uses a secure local tunnel for the browser callback and checks the resulting identity and access permissions without exposing tokens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up, recover, or verify a Nebius CLI profile on a remote VM, including checking who is authenticated and whether the account can obtain access.
Why use it?
It provides a controlled way to complete interactive login remotely while avoiding printed, logged, or returned access tokens.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to set up, recover, or verify a Nebius CLI profile on a remote VM, including checking who is authenticated and whether the account can obtain access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nebius/nebius-physical-ai/vm-nebius-auth
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nebius/nebius-physical-ai --skill vm-nebius-auth
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nebius/nebius-physical-ai

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 533 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 high

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 →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 27
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00064 $0.00533
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 3d ago against content hash 09a804303c39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vm-nebius-auth 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 3d 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/atomic/vm-nebius-auth/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VM Nebius Authentication

Diagnose before starting login

For a read-only readiness request, use npa workbench health preflight --checks nebius --json; do not start profile creation. A failed identity probe alone does not distinguish missing profile configuration, expired authentication, denied access, or a network failure. Check the selected profile's presence using the installed CLI's profile help and non-secret metadata. Do not dump configuration or token values. Report missing configuration only when established; otherwise leave the cause unknown.

Create or recover a human profile only when the user authorizes login. A successful authentication check does not prove resource-creation permissions, quota, or capacity. Preserve attached-service-account profiles on agent VMs.

Run on the operator/dev VM:

npa/.venv/bin/npa agent auth-profile \
  --ssh-host <operator-vm-host> --ssh-user <operator-vm-user> \
  --profile <profile>

The command strips ambient IAM-token variables, returns immediately for an already-authenticated profile, or starts nebius --no-browser profile creation and its first profile-scoped IAM probe in one PTY (CLI versions may defer OAuth until first use). When the CLI advertises exactly one official HTTPS browser URL and one loopback callback, it prints the URL and an exact local-machine ssh -N -L command using the runtime-selected port. Run the tunnel locally before opening the URL. Unsafe, ambiguous, or malformed callbacks fail closed; cancellation and timeout stop the child flow.

The browser callback completes the CLI profile. NPA then verifies iam whoami and separately verifies that IAM can mint an access token, with command output discarded. Never request, paste, print, log, return, or chat the IAM token.

Human interactive authentication is for an operator/dev VM or explicit recovery. Keep the npa-agent VM on its attached service account and cursor-sa metadata-token profile by default.

Verify changes with:

npa/.venv/bin/python -m pytest \
  npa/tests/unit/test_nebius_vm_auth.py \
  npa/tests/cli/test_agent_auth_profile.py -q

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago Changed · +14 lines 09a804303c39
  2. 11d ago First seen · 41 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 9accb211e2fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vm-nebius-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository nebius/nebius-physical-ai (28 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 533 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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