discover-networking

A networking topic guide that automatically brings in relevant skills for software communication and connectivity.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with SSH, VPNs, DNS, TCP, UDP, HTTP, TLS, NAT traversal, network resilience, proxies, load balancing, caching, and service meshes.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to identify separate guidance when working with connections, protocols, proxies, or unreliable networks.

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/rand/cc-polymath/discover-networking
Any agent
npx skills add rand/cc-polymath --skill discover-networking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rand/cc-polymath

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 526 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00045 $0.00526
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00263
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00053

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3023df3a0220, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover-networking 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 3d 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.

skills/discover-networking/SKILL.md · 80 lines

What it actually says

Networking Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive networking skills.

When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:

  • networking
  • SSH
  • mTLS
  • NAT traversal
  • VPN
  • Tailscale
  • network resilience
  • connection reliability
  • HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3
  • TCP, UDP, QUIC
  • network protocols
  • protocol debugging
  • protocol selection
  • network communication
  • web protocols
  • transport layer
  • application layer protocols
  • Forward/reverse proxies
  • HTTP proxy configuration
  • Nginx, Traefik, Envoy, Caddy
  • Load balancing
  • SSL/TLS termination
  • HTTP caching and CDN
  • Cache invalidation
  • NATS messaging
  • Service mesh patterns

Available Skills

Quick Reference

The Networking category contains 20 skills across 3 subcategories:

Networking (5 skills):

  1. mosh-resilient-ssh
  2. mtls-implementation
  3. nat-traversal
  4. network-resilience-patterns
  5. tailscale-vpn

Protocols (8 skills): See ../protocols/INDEX.md Proxies (7 skills): See ../proxies/INDEX.md

Load Full Category Details

Read ../networking/INDEX.md Read ../protocols/INDEX.md Read ../proxies/INDEX.md

Progressive Loading

This gateway skill enables progressive loading:

  • Level 1: Gateway loads automatically (you're here now)
  • Level 2: Load category INDEX.md for full overview
  • Level 3: Load specific skills as needed

Usage Instructions

  1. Auto-activation: This skill loads automatically when Claude Code detects networking work
  2. Browse skills: Run Read ../networking/INDEX.md for full category overview
  3. Load specific skills: Use bash commands above to load individual skills

Next Steps: Run Read ../networking/INDEX.md to see full category details.

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. 3d ago First seen · 80 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 3023df3a0220

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover-networking is a skill published in the GitHub repository rand/cc-polymath (136 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 526 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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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