What is aleph-cloud-self-deployment?

A guide to deploying and operating virtual machines on Aleph Cloud, a decentralized computing network, with the aleph-client command-line tool. It also covers multi-machine networks, traffic distribution, backups, costs, and security.

Use it to deploy one or more VMs, connect them with Tailscale, distribute traffic with HAProxy, manage backups, control costs, or harden an Aleph setup.

It helps organize persistent or confidential workloads on Aleph Cloud and plan how they recover or scale across machines.

aleph-cloud-self-deployment — Skill for Codex by san-npm/skills-ws

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 san-npm/skills-ws --skill aleph-cloud-self-deployment

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/san-npm/skills-ws

Made for: Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,116 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00083	$0.01116
Opus 5.5	$0.00033	$0.00446
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00223
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00112

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0317420351f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aleph-cloud-self-deployment 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 2mo 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/aleph-cloud-self-deployment/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aleph Cloud Self-Deployment: VM & Multi-Node Fleet Management

Framework for deploying and managing persistent/confidential VMs on Aleph Cloud's decentralized compute network using the official aleph-client CLI, with patterns for running an OpenClaw agent runtime across one or many nodes (Tailscale mesh, HAProxy distribution, pull-based backup, and hardening).

Verify before you ship. Aleph CLI flags, OpenClaw install commands, and pricing change over time. This skill is current as of Jun 2026. Note: docs.aleph.cloud's CLI reference now documents a rewritten aleph-cli (installed via Homebrew, apt, or cargo) whose syntax differs from the Python aleph-client used throughout this skill; this skill targets the Python aleph-client (PyPI, v1.9.x). Authoritative sources, used throughout: the Aleph CLI command reference at https://docs.aleph.cloud/devhub/sdks-and-tools/aleph-cli/ (instance subcommands: https://docs.aleph.cloud/devhub/sdks-and-tools/aleph-cli/commands/instance.html), and OpenClaw docs at https://docs.openclaw.ai/. Run aleph instance create --help and aleph pricing instance to confirm current flags and prices on your machine.

If you installed the rewritten aleph-cli from the docs instead of the Python aleph-client, translate commands: aleph pricing instance -> aleph instance price (--size 2vcpu-4gb, --json); aleph account address -> aleph account show; aleph account create --private-key ... -> aleph account import <name> --private-key; instance create --name X --compute-units N --rootfs-size MIB -> instance create X --vcpus/--memory/--disk-size; --crn-url/--crn-auto-tac -> --crn-hash. Run aleph instance create --help to see which client you have.

Sibling skills. This skill focuses on Aleph-specific provisioning and fleet orchestration. For deep, vendor-neutral coverage prefer: security-hardening (SSH/firewall/CIS), monitoring-observability (metrics, alerting, log pipelines), and docker-production (Compose v2, image hygiene). Use those alongside this one rather than duplicating their depth here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

17 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.

2mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 0317420351f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aleph-cloud-self-deployment is a skill published in the GitHub repository san-npm/skills-ws (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,116 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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