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.
npx skills add vmware-skills/VMware-Harden --skill vmware-hardengit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmware-skills/VMware-HardenWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vmware-skills/vmware-harden/vmware-harden)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vmware-skills/vmware-harden/vmware-harden"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vmware-skills/vmware-harden/vmware-harden/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vmware-skills/vmware-harden/vmware-harden"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vmware-skills/vmware-harden/vmware-harden.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00207 | $0.04654 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00103 | $0.02327 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00041 | $0.00931 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00465 |
Grade A, and why
vmware-harden 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
VMware Harden (Compliance & Baseline)
Disclaimer: This is a community-maintained open-source project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VMware, Inc. or Broadcom Inc. "VMware" and "vSphere" are trademarks of Broadcom. Source code is publicly auditable at github.com/vmware-skills/VMware-Harden under the MIT license.
AI-native VMware compliance scanner — built-in CIS / vSphere SCG / 等保 2.0 三级 / PCI-DSS / BSI IT-Grundschutz / EU NIS2 baselines, drift detection, LLM-driven remediation advice, and a web dashboard.
Companion skills: vmware-aiops (inventory + collectors data source; host/VM remediation target), vmware-monitor (read-only inspection), vmware-storage (datastore remediation target), vmware-nsx (segment/gateway evidence), vmware-nsx-security (DFW evidence + remediation target), vmware-aria (metrics correlation), vmware-avi (load balancer evidence), vmware-vks (Tanzu Kubernetes evidence), vmware-pilot (remediation execution with approval gates), vmware-policy (audit log). See references/cross-skill-workflows.md for end-to-end remediation flows that span pilot + sibling skills.
What This Skill Does
| Category | Tools | Count | Read or Write |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline Management | 9 built-in baselines (CIS ESXi 8.0/9.0, vSphere SCG v8/v9, vSphere 9 STIG, 等保 2.0 L3, PCI-DSS 4.0, BSI ITGS, EU NIS2) + custom YAML loader | 9+N | Read |
| Scanning | Multi-collector (vCenter, ESXi, NSX, vSAN, K8s) → typed Twin store | 1 pipeline | Read (no target writes) |
| Drift Detection | Snapshot-to-snapshot configuration diff (per-node added/removed/changed fields) | 1 type | Read |
| Remediation Advisor | LLM-driven (Anthropic) suggestions per violation; mock fallback when no key | 1 advisor | Read |
| Web Dashboard | FastAPI + Jinja2 read-only UI for violations / drift / advice | 1 server | Read |
| MCP Server | Compliance query tools | 8 | All Read |
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 214 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A d573bb9d950a
vmware-harden is a skill published in the GitHub repository vmware-skills/VMware-Harden (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 4,654 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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