homelab-pihole-dns

homelab-pihole-dns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nklofy/code-agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,398 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to Pi-hole, a network-wide DNS ad and tracker blocker that runs on a Raspberry Pi or Linux computer. DNS is the service that helps devices find websites and other network services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and configure Pi-hole, manage blocklists, set up encrypted DNS, add local names such as nas.home.lan, connect DHCP, and troubleshoot access problems.
Why use it?
It gives a home network one place to block unwanted domains and manage name resolution, instead of configuring each device separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to install and configure Pi-hole, manage blocklists, set up encrypted DNS, add local names such as nas.home.lan, connect DHCP, and troubleshoot access problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nklofy/code-agent-skills/homelab-pihole-dns
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nklofy/code-agent-skills --skill homelab-pihole-dns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nklofy/code-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,398 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 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 $0.00040 $0.02398
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01199
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00240

Measured 8d ago against content hash 132b83806347, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

homelab-pihole-dns 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 8d 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 nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net -o pi-hole-install.sh
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

affaan-m-ECC/homelab-pihole-dns/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Homelab Pi-hole DNS

Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS ad blocker that runs on a Raspberry Pi or any Linux host. Every device on your network gets ad and malware domain blocking automatically — no browser extension needed.

When to Use

  • Installing Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi or Linux host
  • Configuring Pi-hole as the DNS server for a home network
  • Adding or managing blocklists
  • Setting up DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) upstream resolvers
  • Creating local DNS records (e.g. nas.home.lan, pi.home.lan)
  • Troubleshooting devices that lose internet access after Pi-hole is installed
  • Running Pi-hole alongside or instead of DHCP

How Pi-hole Works

Normal flow (without Pi-hole):
  Device → requests ads.tracker.com → ISP DNS → real IP → ads load

With Pi-hole:
  Device → requests ads.tracker.com → Pi-hole DNS → blocked (returns 0.0.0.0) → no ad

All DNS queries go through Pi-hole first.
Pi-hole checks against blocklists.
Blocked domains return a null response — the ad/tracker never loads.
Allowed domains get forwarded to your upstream resolver (Cloudflare, Google, etc.).

Installation

Docker (Recommended)

Docker is the easiest way to install Pi-hole and makes updates and backups straightforward.

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  pihole:
    image: pihole/pihole:<pinned-release-tag>
    container_name: pihole
    ports:
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      - "80:80/tcp"          # Web admin
    environment:
      TZ: "America/New_York"
      WEBPASSWORD: "${PIHOLE_WEBPASSWORD}"   # set via .env file or secret
      PIHOLE_DNS_: "1.1.1.1;1.0.0.1"
      DNSMASQ_LISTENING: "all"
    volumes:
      - "./etc-pihole:/etc/pihole"
      - "./etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d"
    restart: unless-stopped
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN              # only needed if Pi-hole will serve DHCP

Replace <pinned-release-tag> with a current Pi-hole release tag before deploying. Avoid latest for long-lived DNS infrastructure so upgrades are deliberate and reviewable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 8d ago First seen · 276 lines · 40 tokens per session scan B 132b83806347

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homelab-pihole-dns is a skill published in the GitHub repository nklofy/code-agent-skills (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,398 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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