vastkit

vastkit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RazinAleksandr/vastkit. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,801 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for renting temporary graphics-processing-unit (GPU) computers from Vast.ai and using them remotely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find and rent cost-limited machines, connect over SSH, transfer projects, run commands or background jobs, retrieve results, and inspect or stop running instances.
Why use it?
It helps run GPU-heavy work without keeping a GPU computer permanently, while tracking costs and stopping rentals when finished.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the vastkit plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/razinaleksandr/vastkit/vastkit
Any agent
npx skills add RazinAleksandr/vastkit --skill vastkit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RazinAleksandr/vastkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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.

agentmods badge for vastkit

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,801 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 5.1 $0.00103 $0.01801
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00901
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00180

Measured 5d ago against content hash d4d0365b3060, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vastkit 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 5d 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/vastkit/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vastkit

Use the Vastkit runtime bundled with this plugin as the execution layer. Apply the workflow and guardrails below; do not install a separate Vastkit package or recreate Vast.ai API requests in ad hoc scripts.

Resolve the CLI

Resolve <skill-dir> to the directory containing this SKILL.md. In Claude Code, ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} is that directory. In other agents, use the skill path shown by the host.

VK="<skill-dir>/scripts/vastkit-cli"
"$VK" --version

The launcher resolves the Python package from the installed plugin. If the version check reports that the runtime is missing, stop and ask the user to update or reinstall the plugin through their agent. Do not use pip as a fallback.

Require Python 3.9+, internet access, ssh, and tar. Prefer rsync when available; Vastkit falls back to tar transfers when the remote image lacks it.

Protect Credentials

  • Use VAST_API_KEY or ~/.vast_api_key. Never put an API key in a command, pass --api-key, print it, commit it, or ask the user to paste it into chat.
  • Let Vastkit auto-detect an SSH key, or use VASTKIT_SSH_KEY. Never print or transfer private keys.
  • Do not upload .env files or credential directories. Vastkit excludes common environment files by default; add explicit exclusions for any project-specific secret paths.
  • Pass remote secrets only by referencing an already-exported local variable, for example --env HF_TOKEN="$HF_TOKEN". Never place a literal token in the command or response.

If authentication is not configured, stop and ask the user to configure it locally using the Vast.ai API key page. Continue only after they confirm.

Apply Spending Guardrails

Run read-only discovery commands without approval: whoami, search, ls, status, jobs, and logs.

Before rent or start, obtain explicit user approval for the cost-bearing action. A prior request counts only when it clearly authorizes renting or resuming. State:

  • GPU and minimum VRAM
  • maximum hourly price
  • disk allocation and image
  • expected duration and download volume
  • estimated session cost and any known excluded costs
  • instance label
  • whether to destroy automatically after verified output retrieval

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 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. 5d ago First seen · 204 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A d4d0365b3060

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vastkit is a skill published in the GitHub repository RazinAleksandr/vastkit (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,801 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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