hcloud-remote

hcloud-remote is a skill for Claude Code from osouthgate/agent-plus-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,795 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A small command-line tool for managing common Hetzner Cloud tasks, such as viewing servers, rebooting them, making snapshots, and connecting by SSH.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with one or two Hetzner VPSs to check status, find addresses, reboot or snapshot a server, and open an SSH session.
Why use it?
It lets you find and operate servers by name without keeping their numeric IDs or IP addresses in mind.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the hcloud-remote plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it with one or two Hetzner VPSs to check status, find addresses, reboot or snapshot a server, and open an SSH session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/osouthgate/agent-plus-skills/hcloud-remote
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 osouthgate/agent-plus-skills --skill hcloud-remote
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/osouthgate/agent-plus-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hcloud-remote, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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 1,795 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 $0.00063 $0.01795
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00898
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00179

Measured 7d ago against content hash 521dc429d11a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

hcloud-remote 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 7d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Or globally in `~/.claude/settings.json`:

Makes network callslowCapability

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

On Windows, piping curl output into `python3 -c "..."` with a multiline string gets mangled by the bash shim (stray `||` parsed as `goto :error`). The previous workaround was writing a temp `.py` file every time. This wr
hcloud-remote/skills/hcloud-remote/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hcloud-remote

Stdlib-only Python 3 CLI for the narrow slice of Hetzner Cloud API you actually use when you have one or two VPSes and no Terraform. Lives at ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../bin/hcloud-remote; the plugin auto-adds bin/ to PATH.

When to reach for this

  • User needs an IP address or status for a Hetzner server.
  • User wants to reboot or snapshot before risky work.
  • User wants to SSH in but doesn't have the IP in their head.

Do NOT use for: volumes, networks, firewalls, load balancers, floating IPs, image management, server creation/destruction. If you find yourself wanting any of those, reach for Terraform / hcloud (the upstream CLI) instead — this wrapper intentionally doesn't cover them.

When NOT to use this — fall back to hcloud CLI directly

This wrapper is deliberately tiny. It covers server list/show/reboot, snapshot create/list, and ssh — nothing else. For anything outside that slice, skip hcloud-remote and use the upstream hcloud CLI (or Terraform) directly. It's already authed on the same HCLOUD_TOKEN.

Specific cases where you should use hcloud ... (or Terraform) directly, not hcloud-remote:

  • Creating or destroying servers.hcloud server create ... / hcloud server delete <name>. The wrapper has no server create or server delete on purpose — those are Terraform's job for anything you care about keeping.
  • Volumes, networks, load balancers, floating IPs, firewalls.hcloud volume|network|load-balancer|floating-ip|firewall .... None of these are wrapped; don't try to coerce server show into revealing attached-volume details.
  • SSH key management (adding/listing/rotating project SSH keys). → hcloud ssh-key .... The wrapper's ssh subcommand just uses your local ~/.ssh/* — it doesn't manage Hetzner's registered keys.
  • Image management beyond snapshots — deleting snapshots, listing backups/ISOs, rebuilding from an image. → hcloud image .... The wrapper creates and lists snapshots but never deletes them (safety); prune via hcloud image delete <id> or the Console.
  • Rescue mode, power on/off, rename, change type, resize.hcloud server enable-rescue|poweron|poweroff|rename|change-type .... Only reboot is wrapped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 7d ago First seen · 127 lines · 63 tokens per session scan B 521dc429d11a

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hcloud-remote is a skill published in the GitHub repository osouthgate/agent-plus-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,795 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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