Operational guidance for systemd, the Linux service and startup manager. It covers service files, dependencies, restarts, resource limits, logging, timers, sockets, and security settings.

Use it when writing or debugging unit files, investigating startup failures, diagnosing restart loops, configuring cgroups, or hardening services.

It helps explain why services fail to start, restart repeatedly, exceed limits, or behave differently under systemd.

systemd — Skill for Claude Code by pvillega/claude-templates

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 pvillega/claude-templates --skill systemd

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pvillega/claude-templates

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ct, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 7 agents, 7 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pvillega/claude-templates/systemd/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pvillega/claude-templates/systemd)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pvillega/claude-templates/systemd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pvillega/claude-templates/systemd/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pvillega/claude-templates/systemd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pvillega/claude-templates/systemd.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 7,123 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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	$0.00142	$0.07123
Opus 5.5	$0.00057	$0.02849
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00028	$0.01425
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00712

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7711f552b350, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systemd 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 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` (typically `/run/user/$UID`) **must** be set; without it `systemctl --user` errors with "No such device or address". `sudo su - user` does NOT set it; use `machinectl shell user@` or `loginctl` to ent

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/ct/skills/systemd/SKILL.md · 271 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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 · 271 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 7711f552b350

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systemd is a skill published in the GitHub repository pvillega/claude-templates (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 7,123 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

DevOps and cloud

systemd next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
systemdpvillega/claude-templates	Skill	23	3mo ago	none	A	142	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	3d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	315k	6d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code

systemd

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

What this file has done since we first saw it

systemd compared with skills from other repositories