using-rnix

A command-line tool for running and coordinating AI agents as separate processes, using ideas familiar from Unix systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split a large request into smaller dependent tasks, run several agents together, and trace or control their progress.
Why use it?
It gives you one way to start, combine, inspect, pause, resume, and stop multiple agent tasks. This reduces the need to manage each agent run separately.

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/rnixai/rnix/using-rnix
Any agent
npx skills add rnixai/rnix --skill using-rnix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rnixai/rnix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,414 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 $0.00162 $0.02414
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00241

Measured 2d ago against content hash ce93b1fc2029, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-rnix 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 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.

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.

lib/skills/using-rnix/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Rnix

Rnix is an operating system for AI agents — "the AI-Era Unix". You drive it with a single CLI, rnix, the way you drive Unix with ps, kill, and strace. This skill gives you rnix's capability map and the exact commands to run, so you can accomplish a task with rnix without reading its source.

If you already know Unix, you already know most of rnix. The novelty is what the processes are: each one is an AI agent reasoning in a loop.

Mental model

Three ideas explain almost everything:

  • Everything is a Process. Every agent run is a first-class process with a PID, a state machine (Created → Running → Suspended/Zombie → Dead), and a resource table. You list them with ps, end them with kill, watch them with strace — the same verbs you already know. Processes can be suspended, resumed, and forked from checkpoints.
  • Everything is a File. LLMs, the filesystem, the shell, agent memory, web search, code intelligence (LSP), and MCP tools are all exposed as virtual devices behind a uniform file interface. Adding a capability is mounting a device. (The concrete device catalog lives in references/architecture.md — you rarely need it just to drive rnix.)
  • Orchestration is process management. Multi-agent workflows are DAGs of processes (compose); high-level goals are decomposed into sub-task DAGs (intent/apply); supervisor trees restart crashed agents. These are OS primitives, not application glue.

Daemon model — read this once. A background daemon holds the kernel and the process table; the CLI talks to it over a Unix domain socket. Commands that create work (rnix -i, rnix apply, rnix compose up, rnix run) auto-start the daemon on first use. Passive query, attach, or lifecycle commands such as rnix ps, rnix strace, rnix suspend, and rnix resume dial the existing daemon; if it is stopped, start one with rnix daemon start or run a spawning command first. Because the daemon is shared, a process you spawn in one terminal is visible to rnix ps in another. Manage it explicitly with rnix daemon status / rnix daemon stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 183 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A ce93b1fc2029

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-rnix is a skill published in the GitHub repository rnixai/rnix (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 2,414 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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