orbstack-best-practices

orbstack-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from NeverSight/learn-skills.dev. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,088 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A set of patterns for using OrbStack on macOS to run Linux virtual machines and Docker containers. It covers machine management, setup data, networking, shared files, and SSH access.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for working with OrbStack, orbctl, Docker on macOS, or Linux virtual machines.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common setup and connectivity problems when developing with Linux VMs or containers on a Mac.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/allen/file.txt.

Good fit It is for working with OrbStack, orbctl, Docker on macOS, or Linux virtual machines.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00063 $0.02088
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01044
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00209

Measured 5d ago against content hash c5dc96c0009f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

orbstack-best-practices scanned grade B with 2 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture amd64

Makes network callslowCapability

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

# From macOS: curl localhost:8000 or curl myvm.orb.local:8000
data/skills-md/0xbigboss/claude-code/orbstack-best-practices/SKILL.md · 338 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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Files

What ships with it

11 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 · 338 lines · 63 tokens per session scan B c5dc96c0009f

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orbstack-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository NeverSight/learn-skills.dev (209 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,088 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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