schelk

schelk is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tempoxyz/schelk. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,233 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A Linux-only command-line skill for repeatable benchmarking on large stateful datasets, such as database data directories. It keeps a clean baseline disk, runs tests on a separate working disk, and restores only changed blocks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for installing and configuring schelk, preparing baseline storage, running benchmark-and-recovery cycles, promoting a new baseline, and recovering from unsafe states.
Why use it?
It makes repeated benchmarks faster while avoiding copy-on-write or overlay layers, which can distort or complicate storage tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for installing and configuring schelk, preparing baseline storage, running benchmark-and-recovery cycles, promoting a new baseline, and recovering from unsafe states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs
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 tempoxyz/schelk --skill docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tempoxyz/schelk

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for schelk

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for schelk

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tempoxyz/schelk/docs.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,233 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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: 13 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 Privilege Escalation · line 52
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 137
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 148
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 158
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 169
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 186
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 192
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 200
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 206
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 221
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 223
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 229
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 239
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 $0.00000 $0.02233
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00893
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00223

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3a38faa78f9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

schelk scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo modprobe brd rd_size=4194304
docs/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

schelk

schelk is a Linux-only benchmarking helper for large on-disk datasets such as database or reth datadirs. It keeps a pristine virgin block device, runs benchmarks on a scratch block device, and uses dm-era metadata on a ramdisk to learn which blocks changed. Recovery then copies only the changed blocks from virgin back to scratch, so the benchmark loop is fast without running on top of CoW or overlay machinery.

Use this skill when the user wants to install schelk, prepare baseline volumes, run the mount -> benchmark -> recover loop, promote a new baseline, or recover from an unsafe state.

Start From The URL

Do not assume the repository is already cloned locally.

If the user points you at this skill by URL, treat this as the entrypoint:

If the repo is not available locally and you need the source or docs, clone it first:

git clone https://github.com/tempoxyz/schelk.git
cd schelk

Read These First

When behavior is unclear, prefer these project documents over guesswork:

Core Rules

  • Treat init-new, init-from, full-recover, and promote as destructive.
  • Do not guess device paths. Have the user confirm the exact --virgin, --scratch, --ramdisk, and --mount-point before destructive commands.
  • Refuse to proceed on non-Linux hosts. This repository intentionally fails to build on macOS and Windows.
  • All operational commands require root privileges.
  • Do not mount or write to the virgin or scratch devices outside schelk.
  • Use --no-copy only if the user explicitly states that virgin and scratch are already byte-identical.
  • After a host reboot or power loss while mounted, assume incremental recovery is unsafe. Use full-recover.
  • If the user wants multiple schelk instances in parallel, assign a unique --dm-era-name and a separate --state-path for each instance.
  • Do not overpromise perfect device reset semantics. schelk restores logical blocks, not NVMe controller internal state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 1mo ago First seen · 285 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 3a38faa78f9e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

schelk is a skill published in the GitHub repository tempoxyz/schelk (53 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,233 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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