runpod-usage

runpod-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from runpod/runpod-plugins-official. It costs 120 tokens per session (672 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A usage guide for Runpod, a service for renting cloud computers with CPUs or GPUs. It explains pods, serverless endpoints, storage, containers, networking, and the development process for running workloads there.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting GPU or VRAM, building a container, setting up a pod, deploying a serverless endpoint, or planning a repeatable development workflow.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose the right Runpod setup and understand how to provision, prepare, check, and remove cloud workloads without confusing infrastructure concepts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the runpod plugin — 8 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server 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/runpod/runpod-plugins-official/runpod-usage
Any agent
npx skills add runpod/runpod-plugins-official --skill runpod-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runpod/runpod-plugins-official

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install runpod, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 672 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 $0.00120 $0.00672
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00067

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6a1b7763f20c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

runpod-usage 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.

plugins/runpod/skills/runpod-usage/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Runpod usage (concepts)

Background knowledge for making the right choice before you act. This skill runs nothing — once you know what to do, execute with runpod-mcp/runpodctl (infra), flash (your own code), or companion-clis (models/images/data).

This skill explains; the golden paths demonstrate. When the question is really "how do I do X" rather than "how does X work", the verified end-to-end example is the faster answer — runpod/golden-paths/README.md. Read the concept here, then follow the path.

Read the one reference file that matches the question:

Question Read
First-run setup / auth — get + set RUNPOD_API_KEY, SSH, companion creds reference/getting-started.md
Pods vs serverless, workers, cold starts, FlashBoot, queue vs load-balanced reference/concepts.md
The development loop for ANY workload (start here) — plan → prefer prebuilt → provision → verify → teardown reference/development-loop.md
Stand up / iterate a workload on a pod — the pod sub-loop reference/pod-workflows.md
Deploy / iterate a serverless endpoint — Hub vs flash vs custom, invoke + verify reference/endpoint-workflows.md
Install software on a pod — package hygiene, uv, non-interactive, caching reference/on-pod-setup.md
Build a Docker image Runpod can run (handler contract, Dockerfile, --platform=linux/amd64) reference/docker.md
How to build an image well — base image, layering, bake-in vs volume, pod vs serverless (queue/LB) contract reference/building-images.md
Where data lives — container disk vs network volume, model caching, S3 access reference/storage.md
Which GPU / how much VRAM / cost & availability / data centers reference/gpu-selection.md
Reaching a pod or endpoint over HTTP (proxy URLs, exposed ports) reference/networking.md
Common mistakes and how to avoid them reference/gotchas.md
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 · 43 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 6a1b7763f20c

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runpod-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository runpod/runpod-plugins-official (44 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 672 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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