rudder-cli-setup

rudder-cli-setup is a skill for Claude Code from rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,294 once invoked), scanned E, original, MIT.

A setup workflow for rudder-cli, the command-line tool for managing RudderStack, an event-data platform. It checks installation, guides installation from GitHub Releases when needed, and verifies authentication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install rudder-cli on macOS or Linux, check its version, authenticate with RudderStack, and display workspace information.
Why use it?
It helps resolve missing-command and login problems without guessing which installation or authentication step is next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the rudder-cli plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to install rudder-cli on macOS or Linux, check its version, authenticate with RudderStack, and display workspace information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills/rudder-cli-setup
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 rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills --skill rudder-cli-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rudder-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,294 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan E 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00042 $0.02294
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00918
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00229

Measured today against content hash 939952a95071, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade E, and why

rudder-cli-setup scanned grade E with 3 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 today.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

d=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rudderlabs/rudder-iac/main/install.sh -o "$d/install.sh" && sh "$d/install.sh"

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

d=$(mktemp -d); trap 'rm -rf "$d"' EXIT

Makes network callslowCapability

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

allowed-tools: "Bash(which, curl, chmod, uname, rudder-cli *), Read, Write, Edit"
plugins/rudder-cli/skills/rudder-cli-setup/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rudder CLI Setup

Install rudder-cli, authenticate with RudderStack, and verify the setup works.

Setup Workflow

1. Check Installation ──► command -v rudder-cli, then ~/.local/bin
         │
         ├── Found ──► Skip to Authentication
         │
         └── Not Found ──► Install the latest release into ~/.local/bin
                                    │
2. Verify Installation ◄────────────┘
         │
         └── rudder-cli --version

3. Check Authentication ──► rudder-cli workspace info --json
         │
         ├── Authenticated ──► Done! Show workspace info
         │
         └── Not Authenticated ──► RUDDERSTACK_ACCESS_TOKEN (agents)
                                   or rudder-cli auth login (people)

Step 1: Check if Installed

command -v rudder-cli || ls "$HOME/.local/bin/rudder-cli"

If command -v prints a path: Skip to Step 3 (Authentication).

If only ~/.local/bin/rudder-cli exists: An earlier install put it there, and that folder is not on PATH. Follow "If ~/.local/bin is not on PATH" below, then skip to Step 3.

If neither exists: Continue to Step 2 (Installation).

Step 2: Install rudder-cli

Both commands below install the latest release from GitHub Releases on macOS or Linux, on x86_64 or arm64 (Linux also on i386). They check the archive against the release's checksums file, put rudder-cli in ~/.local/bin without sudo, and replace no copy elsewhere. On Windows, download the .zip for your CPU from the latest release instead.

Never install rudder-cli with npm, npx or Homebrew. No npm package or Homebrew tap ships it, and the npm package named rudder-cli belongs to someone else.

Run the install script

Download the script into a new temporary folder, then run it. Do not pipe it into a shell.

d=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rudderlabs/rudder-iac/main/install.sh -o "$d/install.sh" && sh "$d/install.sh"

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

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. today Changed · +38 lines scan B → E 939952a95071
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 154 lines · 42 tokens per session scan B ae97849092a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rudder-cli-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository rudderlabs/rudder-agent-skills (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it E with 3 findings (downloads and executes remote code, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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