proxies

A guide for routing web traffic through Oxylabs proxy networks, including residential, mobile, datacenter, and ISP addresses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building scrapers or other network clients that need proxy authentication, geographic routing, rotating addresses, sticky sessions, IP whitelisting, or assigned proxy ports.
Why use it?
It explains how to choose proxy types and configure location targeting, rotating or persistent sessions, authentication, and fixed IP access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oxylabs/agent-skills/proxies
Any agent
npx skills add oxylabs/agent-skills --skill proxies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,596 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00076 $0.01596
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00798
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00160

Measured yesterday against content hash 172eed0cdbfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proxies scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -x "pr.oxylabs.io:7777" \
skills/proxies/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Oxylabs Proxies

Proxy Types Overview

Type Host Port Best For
Residential pr.oxylabs.io 7777 High anonymity, geo-targeting
Mobile pr.oxylabs.io 7777 Mobile-specific content, highest trust
Datacenter (shared) dc.oxylabs.io 8000 rotation / 8001+ assigned/static Speed, high volume
ISP (shared) isp.oxylabs.io 8000 rotation / 8001+ assigned/static Speed + anonymity balance
Dedicated Datacenter ddc.oxylabs.io 8000 rotation / 8001+ assigned/static Owned IPs, port-based access
Dedicated ISP disp.oxylabs.io 8000 rotation / 8001+ assigned/static Owned ISP IPs, ASN locked

Residential/Mobile use pr.oxylabs.io:7777 with username session parameters. Datacenter/ISP and Dedicated self-service products use proxy-list ports starting at 8001 for assigned/static IPs and 8000 for automatic rotation.

Environment Variables

Use credentials for the specific proxy product family:

Product family Variables Username prefix
Residential, Mobile OXY_RES_USERNAME, OXY_RES_PASSWORD customer-
Datacenter, ISP, Dedicated Datacenter, Dedicated ISP OXY_DC_USERNAME, OXY_DC_PASSWORD user- for self-service/shared

Authentication Format

customer-USERNAME:PASSWORD    # Residential, Mobile
user-USERNAME:PASSWORD          # Shared Datacenter, Shared ISP

Dedicated proxy auth (Self-Service vs Enterprise) is in dedicated-datacenter.md and dedicated-isp.md.

Use separate credentials for Residential/Mobile (OXY_RES_USERNAME, OXY_RES_PASSWORD) and Datacenter/ISP (OXY_DC_USERNAME, OXY_DC_PASSWORD).

With parameters:

customer-USERNAME-cc-US-city-new_york-sessid-abc123:PASSWORD

Quick Start

Residential/Mobile proxy:

curl -x "pr.oxylabs.io:7777" \
  -U "customer-$OXY_RES_USERNAME:$OXY_RES_PASSWORD" \
  "https://ip.oxylabs.io/location"

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday First seen · 145 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 172eed0cdbfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

proxies is a skill published in the GitHub repository oxylabs/agent-skills (807 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,596 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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