pterodactyl-ops

pterodactyl-ops is a skill for Claude Code from Teddy563/mcwrench. It costs 171 tokens per session (1,074 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of operating instructions for Minecraft servers managed through Pterodactyl or Pelican, which are web panels for running game servers. It covers the panel, its server agent, containers, ports, startup settings, backups, and remote console access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure or troubleshoot Minecraft servers, network ports, startup variables, RCON remote console access, SFTP files, and panel backups.
Why use it?
It explains settings that are easy to misconfigure, such as extra ports and shared forwarding secrets. This helps avoid servers that cannot start, connect, or accept remote console commands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the mcwrench plugin — 13 skills, 19 commands, 2 agents 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/teddy563/mcwrench/pterodactyl-ops
Any agent
npx skills add Teddy563/mcwrench --skill pterodactyl-ops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Teddy563/mcwrench

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mcwrench, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 19 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/teddy563/mcwrench/pterodactyl-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/teddy563/mcwrench/pterodactyl-ops.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 171 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,074 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 5.1 $0.00171 $0.01074
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00107

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4b6c38846eb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pterodactyl-ops 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 5d 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/pterodactyl-ops/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pterodactyl / Pelican Ops

Run and configure Minecraft servers on Pterodactyl Panel and Pelican Panel (a fork by the former Pterodactyl team, mid-2024; still beta as of 2026-06, relicensed AGPLv3). Pelican imports Pterodactyl eggs unmodified and keeps the API backward-compatible, so this skill applies to both — note the few differences in references/panel-footguns.md.

Architecture (one-screen model)

  • Panel (web UI) + Wings (daemon, one per node). Each server is an isolated Docker container; files live at /home/container (host bind-mount under /var/lib/pterodactyl/volumes/<uuid>).
  • The STARTUP command substitutes egg variables ({{SERVER_JARFILE}}, {{SERVER_MEMORY}}, …) from environment variables at boot. Console/stats stream to the panel.
  • Allocations: the primary allocation is the game port. Anything else (RCON, query, Geyser, Dynmap) needs a secondary allocation added in the Network tab.

Tasks

  • RCONreferences/rcon-setup.md. Key point: add a secondary allocation first, then set enable-rcon=true / rcon.port=<that port> / a strong rcon.password in server.properties. Confirm with the user before enabling RCON, and never expose the port publicly.
  • Memory / OOM → if the container dies with "Cannot allocate memory" or the cgroup OOM-kills it: the JVM heap + -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch is claiming the full container limit at boot. Set Xmx below the panel's allocated memory (leave ~1–1.5 GB / 10–15% headroom for JVM native memory) and/or drop AlwaysPreTouch. The panel {{SERVER_MEMORY}} value is the container limit, not a safe heap size. (See performance-tuning for the full flag discussion.)
  • Backupsreferences/backup-strategies.md. Panel/Wings backups archive the live filesystem and are NOT atomic — quiesce writes (/save-off then /save-all flush via console or the /command API) before taking one, or stop the server.
  • Editing config → edit while stopped (a running server can overwrite files on shutdown), then start. Use SFTP for large/bulk file transfers the web file manager handles poorly.
  • Automation → the client API (below) for scripted file edits, commands, and power actions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 70 lines · 171 tokens per session scan A 4b6c38846eb8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pterodactyl-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository Teddy563/mcwrench (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 171 tokens to every session and 1,074 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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