github-dns-helper

github-dns-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Thincher/awsome_skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A helper for diagnosing GitHub access problems, including failed domain lookups and connection timeouts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Troubleshooting GitHub access, DNS resolution failures, and GitHub connection timeouts.
Why use it?
It gives guidance when GitHub cannot be reached because the computer cannot translate its address or connect to it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

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/thincher/awsome_skills/github-dns-helper
Any agent
npx skills add Thincher/awsome_skills --skill github-dns-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Thincher/awsome_skills

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 github-dns-helper

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thincher/awsome_skills/github-dns-helper.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thincher/awsome_skills/github-dns-helper)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thincher/awsome_skills/github-dns-helper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thincher/awsome_skills/github-dns-helper.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash b0eab2eee9d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

github-dns-helper 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/fix_github_dns.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 chown $(whoami):staff /etc/hosts
github-dns-helper/SKILL.md · 67 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 67 lines · 43 tokens per session scan B b0eab2eee9d9

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github-dns-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository Thincher/awsome_skills (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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