netlify-agent-runner

netlify-agent-runner is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (3,077 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of netlify-agent-runner, MIT.

A way to run Claude, Codex, or Gemini coding agents remotely on Netlify against a site repository. An AI coding agent is software that can carry out development tasks from instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start remote agent tasks for website development, ask another model for a second opinion, or automate repository changes through Netlify's documented commands.
Why use it?
It lets developers delegate coding work or request another model's review without running the agent locally.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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/practicalswan/agent-skills/netlify-agent-runner
Any agent
npx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill netlify-agent-runner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,077 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00056 $0.03077
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01538
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00615
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00308

Measured 2d ago against content hash c93e8d6ee0f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

netlify-agent-runner 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- **Do not curl `https://api.netlify.com/...`** to fetch, create, or stop a task — the endpoint shapes are not part of the public contract.
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to netlify-agent-runner — 55 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

netlify-agent-runner/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Netlify Agent Runner

Run AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) remotely on Netlify infrastructure to automate development tasks on your site.

Prerequisites

  • The site must be linked to a Netlify project (via netlify link or netlify init).
  • Or skip linking entirely: pass --project <name> (a project ID or name) directly to netlify agents:create to target any Netlify site without linking first.
  • The Netlify CLI must be installed and authenticated
  • Agent runs consume plan credits. If the account has no available credits — or the agent/AI usage limit has been reached — netlify agents:create is blocked and the run won't start. That's an account/plan-state issue to surface to the user, not something to work around.

Use only documented CLI surfaces

Interact with agent tasks only through the documented netlify agents:* commands (plus netlify --help and the public CLI reference). Do not go around the CLI:

  • Do not curl https://api.netlify.com/... to fetch, create, or stop a task — the endpoint shapes are not part of the public contract.
  • Do not run netlify api <method> as a recovery hatch when a documented command fails.
  • Do not read auth tokens out of ~/Library/Preferences/netlify/config.json (or anywhere on disk) to authenticate side-channel calls.

If a documented command fails, report the exact error and context to the user and stop — don't invent an undocumented way to reach the task.

How Agent Tasks Run

Read this before creating a task — agent tasks behave differently from running an agent locally, and the differences are easy to miss.

  • Remote, not local. Tasks run on Netlify infrastructure, not on your machine. They operate on the site's connected repository, not your local working tree. The remote agent only sees what has been pushed to the remote — it cannot see uncommitted or unpushed changes.
  • Branch-based. By default a task runs against the production branch (main or master). To choose a different base branch for the agent to start from, use -b <branch> and make sure that branch has been pushed to the remote first, or the agent will be working from code that doesn't exist remotely. -b sets the base (starting) branch — not where the results are written (see the next bullet).
  • Output lands on a new branch — not in place. The agent does not commit its changes onto the base branch you selected. It pushes its work to a new branch with its own Deploy Preview, so your existing branch (or main) is never overwritten. Review the task's results on that new branch / Deploy Preview — don't expect the base branch to change directly.
  • Asynchronous. netlify agents:create returns as soon as the task is queued — it does not block until the work is finished. When the command returns, the task is still running remotely.
  • No webhooks or callbacks. Nothing notifies you when a task changes state or completes. To find out what's happening, you have to poll with netlify agents:show <task-id> or netlify agents:list.
  • Statuses are terminal or not. A task moves through newrunning → one of done, error, or cancelled. Keep polling until the status is one of those last three before you act on the results.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 212 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A c93e8d6ee0f0

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netlify-agent-runner is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,077 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 94% identical to netlify-agent-runner, differing in 55 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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