bob-egress

bob-egress is a skill for Claude Code from vmihalis/hacker-bob. It costs 25 tokens per session (243 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for managing Hacker Bob network-routing profiles in Codex. It can list, add, test, enable, disable, and remove those profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect profile status, add a profile from an environment variable, test connectivity, change whether a profile is enabled, or remove one after confirmation.
Why use it?
It keeps proxy settings and credentials out of chat while giving you control over which routing profile Codex uses.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node ./mcp/core/egress-cli.js "$PWD" $ARGUMENTS.

Good fit Use it to inspect profile status, add a profile from an environment variable, test connectivity, change whether a profile is enabled, or remove one after confirmation.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmihalis/hacker-bob
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vmihalis/hacker-bob/bob-egress

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 243 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 $0.00025 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 9d ago against content hash 671961345493, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bob-egress 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 9d 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.

adapters/codex/skills/bob-egress/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Hacker Bob Egress

Use this when the operator asks to list, add, test, enable, disable, or remove Hacker Bob egress profiles from Codex.

Input: $ARGUMENTS (list, add <name>, test <name>, enable <name>, disable <name>, or remove <name>)

Run from the project root:

node ./mcp/core/egress-cli.js "$PWD" $ARGUMENTS

Rules:

  • If no subcommand is provided, use list.
  • For add <name>, prefer an environment variable reference such as --proxy-env BOB_EGRESS_GR_RESIDENTIAL_PROXY; do not ask the operator to paste credentials into chat.
  • For remove <name>, ask the operator to confirm removal, then rerun with --yes only after confirmation.
  • Report profile names, enabled status, region, description, and whether a proxy is configured. Never print proxy URLs or credentials.
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. 9d ago First seen · 22 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 671961345493

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bob-egress is a skill published in the GitHub repository vmihalis/hacker-bob (97 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 243 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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