What is open-homelab-local-bringup?

A skill for bringing an open-homelab cluster online locally, using Proxmox virtual machines and Kubernetes without AWS or public certificates.

Deploying, bootstrapping, validating, or troubleshooting a local open-homelab cluster.

It provides the required preparation and deployment path for a local setup and highlights configuration and secret-safety checks.

How open-homelab-io/open-homelab configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to open-homelab-io/open-homelab. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-homelab-io/open-homelab/main/.claude/skills/open-homelab-local-bringup/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-homelab-io/open-homelab

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 724 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00062	$0.00724
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00290
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00145
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00072

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3a58dde3fe8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open-homelab-local-bringup 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/open-homelab-local-bringup/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open Homelab Local Bring-Up

Use this skill to guide a user from a fresh checkout to a working local/no-AWS open-homelab cluster.

Read First

docs/getting-started.md
docs/deployment-modes.md
docs/configuration.md
infra/proxmox/README.md
clusters/production/talos/README.md

Default mode uses local OpenTofu state, Proxmox-managed Talos VMs, MetalLB, Traefik, local DNS or /etc/hosts, and no Route53, ExternalDNS, or IAM Roles Anywhere.

Preflight

Before running commands, verify the user customized:

.env
infra/proxmox/config/production.yaml
clusters/production/talos/config.yaml
platform hostnames under platform/*/values.yaml

Required tools: bun, tofu (OpenTofu), kubectl, helm, talosctl, jq, and yq.

Never print real values from .env, kubeconfigs, Talos secrets, OpenBao init files, private keys, or OpenTofu state.

Bring Up

cd infra/proxmox
bun install
bun run get
bun run typecheck
bun run synth
bun run deploy
cd ../..

Bootstrap Talos and Kubernetes:

./clusters/production/talos/scripts/generate-config.sh
./clusters/production/talos/scripts/apply-config.sh
./clusters/production/talos/scripts/bootstrap.sh
KUBECONFIG=clusters/production/talos/generated/kubeconfig ./scripts/bootstrap-cilium.sh
./clusters/production/talos/scripts/approve-kubelet-csrs.sh

Install Argo CD with the default clusters/production/gitops/root path:

./scripts/bootstrap-argocd.sh

Seed platform secrets:

./scripts/bootstrap-openbao.sh
./scripts/bootstrap-openbao-external-secrets.sh
./scripts/bootstrap-keycloak-secrets.sh
./scripts/bootstrap-observability-secrets.sh

Verify

export KUBECONFIG=clusters/production/talos/generated/kubeconfig
kubectl get nodes
kubectl get pods -A --field-selector=status.phase!=Running,status.phase!=Succeeded
kubectl -n argocd get applications -o wide

Confirm AWS resources are absent. This should print nothing:

kubectl get clusterissuer,ns,deploy,svc,ingress -A 2>/dev/null |
  grep -Ei 'external-dns|route53|rolesanywhere|letsencrypt'

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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.

2mo ago First seen · 95 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 3a58dde3fe8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

open-homelab-local-bringup is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-homelab-io/open-homelab (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 724 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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