What is nika-operating?

Production guidance for Nika workflows, which are saved plans for repeatable AI tasks. It covers operating a working workflow after it has been built.

Use it to prepare workflows for production, connect them to CI or a scheduler, limit costs, tighten permissions, change between cloud and local models, or export run traces to OpenTelemetry.

It helps address production concerns such as spending limits, access boundaries, secret handling, model changes, CI or scheduler setup, and trace export.

nika-operating — Skill for Claude Code by supernovae-st/nika-plugins

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 supernovae-st/nika-plugins --skill nika-operating

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/supernovae-st/nika-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nika, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 1 MCP server.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,807 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 unknown 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	$0.00036	$0.03807
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.01523
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00761
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00381

Measured 16d ago against content hash ebd820004d5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nika-operating 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 16d 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.

.agents/plugins/nika/skills/nika-operating/SKILL.md · 280 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

16d ago Changed · +21 lines ebd820004d5e
18d ago Changed · +3 lines 82a33e1945ae
19d ago Changed · +42 lines 34baf55a3b4b
1mo ago Changed · +23 lines · -33 tokens per session cf162508ced2
2mo ago Changed · +24 lines 1985a7be5c18
2mo ago First seen · 167 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A b2d8dee2c0ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nika-operating is a skill published in the GitHub repository supernovae-st/nika-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,807 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Claude Code DevOps and cloud LLM agent-skills ai-agents codex mcp

nika-operating next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
nika-operatingsupernovae-st/nika-plugins	Skill	3	2d ago	AGPL-3.0	A	36	Claude Code
subagent-driven-developmentNousResearch/hermes-agent	Skill	263k	today	MIT	A	17	Claude Code, Codex
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