routeros-container

routeros-container is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tikoci/routeros-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (3,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for running OCI container images directly on MikroTik hardware through the RouterOS 7 container subsystem. OCI is a common format for packaged applications, but this feature is MikroTik’s implementation rather than Docker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enable containers, configure VETH and bridge networking, manage container lifecycles through the command line or REST API, set environment variables, build compatible images and troubleshoot deployments.
Why use it?
It explains the device-mode, package, storage, architecture and networking requirements that can prevent containers from starting or working correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to enable containers, configure VETH and bridge networking, manage container lifecycles through the command line or REST API, set environment variables, build compatible images and troubleshoot deployments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tikoci/routeros-skills/routeros-container
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 tikoci/routeros-skills --skill routeros-container
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikoci/routeros-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,338 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00086 $0.03338
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01669
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00668
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00334

Measured 11d ago against content hash 35e6e48a341e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

routeros-container 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

routeros-container/SKILL.md · 345 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 345 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RouterOS Container Subsystem

Overview

RouterOS 7.x includes a container subsystem (/container) that runs OCI-compatible container images directly on MikroTik hardware. It is NOT Docker — it's MikroTik's own implementation with significant differences.

Requirements:

  • RouterOS 7.x with container extra package installed
  • Device-mode must be enabled (requires physical access for initial setup)
  • Sufficient storage (external USB disk recommended, 100+ MB/s, 10K+ random IOPS)
  • ARM, ARM64, or x86 architecture (MIPS not supported for containers)

Device-Mode — Physical Access Required

Container support is gated behind device-mode, which requires physical confirmation (reset button press or power cycle) to enable:

# Enable container mode
/system/device-mode/update mode=advanced container=yes

# After executing: physically confirm within activation-timeout
# - Press reset button, OR
# - Power cycle the device

Device-mode is a general RouterOS security feature — not container-specific. It gates many features (scheduler, fetch, sniffer, etc.) across four modes (home, basic, advanced, rose) with device-dependent factory defaults.

For the full feature matrix, modes, update properties, and physical confirmation details: see the Device-mode reference in the routeros-fundamentals skill.

Mode script bypass (7.22+): During netinstall, a mode script (-sm) can set device-mode on first boot, automatically triggering a reboot. See the routeros-netinstall skill.

Installing the Container Package

# Check if container package is already installed
/system/package/print where name=container

Method 1: Upload .npk file + apply-changes (offline)

# Upload via SCP (or Winbox drag-and-drop, or WebFig file upload)
scp container-7.22-arm64.npk admin@router:/
# Apply changes (triggers reboot AND activates — /system/reboot does NOT work!)
/system/package/apply-changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 345 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. 11d ago First seen · 345 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 35e6e48a341e

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routeros-container is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikoci/routeros-skills (59 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 3,338 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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