complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch

complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch is a skill for Claude Code from selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills. It costs 217 tokens per session (4,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to deploying a complete AI agent system on infrastructure the team operates itself, from buying and sizing GPUs to serving an open-weight model, storing searchable data, and connecting tools. It also covers the agent's control flow and evaluation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a self-hosted agent stack with GPU model serving, a self-hosted vector database for retrieval, self-hosted MCP tool servers, and the surrounding production setup.
Why use it?
It explains the ordering and operational responsibilities involved when there is no managed model API or managed vector database handling the infrastructure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI.

Part of the ai-agent-skills plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a self-hosted agent stack with GPU model serving, a self-hosted vector database for retrieval, self-hosted MCP tool servers, and the surrounding production setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills/complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills --skill complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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Per session 217 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,299 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 69
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 102
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 325
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00217 $0.04299
Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.02150
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00860
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00430

Measured 12d ago against content hash 16302d63a4f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch 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 12d 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/ai-agent/skills/complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch/SKILL.md · 334 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Complete AI Agent Stack Deployment (Self-Hosted) From Scratch

Purpose

The cloud-managed AI agent path in this skill family leans on managed LLM provider APIs and a managed vector database, trading infrastructure ownership for per-token pricing and someone else's on-call rotation. This skill is the opposite path: serving an open-weight model on GPU infrastructure the team itself procures and operates, paired with a self-hosted vector database and self-hosted MCP servers, with no managed LLM API or managed vector database anywhere in the stack. The tradeoff is real, and the sequencing risk is sharper than on the managed path: GPU capacity has to be sized and provisioned before the agent's latency budget is even meaningfully designable (unlike a managed API, where provider-side scaling is someone else's problem), and every durability concern a managed vector database absorbs — replication, backup, upgrade — becomes this team's responsibility from day one. This skill sequences that whole path — GPU procurement through evaluation — and is explicit throughout about where the self-hosted burden actually lands.

When to use

  • Standing up a production AI agent with a hard requirement of no managed LLM API or managed vector database — data residency, air-gapped deployment, fixed-cost GPU amortization, or model-customization reasons all commonly drive this.
  • Deciding whether a team genuinely has the GPU procurement and operational capacity to self-host an agent stack, versus one of the cloud-managed alternatives in this skill family.
  • Auditing an existing self-hosted agent deployment for a skipped or out-of-order phase (e.g. an agent's latency budget designed before real serving latency was measured on actual hardware, or a self-hosted vector database with no replication running in production for months).
  • Rebuilding a reference self-hosted agent architecture for a second team or environment that should follow the same proven sequence as a known-good first deployment.
  • Honestly comparing the total cost and operational burden of this path against the cloud-managed alternative before committing to it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 334 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. 12d ago First seen · 334 lines · 217 tokens per session scan A 16302d63a4f8

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complete-ai-agent-stack-deployment-self-hosted-from-scratch is a skill published in the GitHub repository selvarajmurugesan90/ops-engineering-skills (39 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 217 tokens to every session and 4,299 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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