homerail-cli

homerail-cli is a skill for Codex from xiaotianfotos/homerail. It costs 139 tokens per session (3,384 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line reference and control surface for HomeRail's local TypeScript CLI. TypeScript is a programming language that adds type checks to JavaScript, while this tool provides commands for configuring and operating HomeRail workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install dependencies, build or invoke the CLI, list workflow templates, start runs, check status, inspect chats and handoffs, and inject instructions into active workflows.
Why use it?
It documents the exact local commands and fallback entry points needed to build, configure, start, inspect, and supervise HomeRail runs. Structured JSON output makes results easier for agents and scripts to process.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node homerail_cli/dist/cli.js --help.

Good fit Use it to install dependencies, build or invoke the CLI, list workflow templates, start runs, check status, inspect chats and handoffs, and inject instructions into active workflows.

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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/xiaotianfotos/homerail
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaotianfotos/homerail/homerail-cli

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,384 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 56
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00139 $0.03384
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01692
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00677
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00338

Measured 13d ago against content hash fc8d06c929a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

homerail-cli 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 13d 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.

skills/homerail-cli/SKILL.md · 427 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 427 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HomeRail CLI (TypeScript)

Manager Agent native shell

The HomeRail Manager Agent can use the selected harness's native shell directly: Codex provides its built-in shell and Claude Agent SDK provides Bash.

Prefer hr --json <command...> for structured results. If hr is not installed on PATH, HomeRail exposes the active local-source entrypoint through HOMERAIL_CLI_ENTRYPOINT; invoke it as:

node "$HOMERAIL_CLI_ENTRYPOINT" --json <command...>

A zero exit status plus the returned JSON is valid execution evidence. Dedicated Manager Tools remain useful shortcuts, but the CLI is the complete control surface for commands that have no dedicated Tool.

Installation

Before acting, apply homerail-shared rules. This pre-publication release uses the local source tree; do not assume npm publication exists.

cd homerail_cli
npm ci
npm run build

The CLI binary is dist/cli.js. Run it directly or via the hr bin alias:

# From the repo root after build
node homerail_cli/dist/cli.js --help

# Or link globally
cd homerail_cli && npm link
hr --help

For development without a build step:

npx tsx homerail_cli/src/cli.ts --help

Configuration

Use the CLI config flow for local runtime settings and provider credentials:

hr config
hr config show
hr config apply

hr config writes non-secret settings under ${HOMERAIL_HOME}/config.json. Provider and integration credentials are sent to Manager and stored in the Manager encrypted settings store, persisted under ${HOMERAIL_HOME}/manager/homerail.db. ${HOMERAIL_HOME}/secrets/env is a legacy plaintext import path only; do not use it as the normal OSS configuration path.

The Manager URL is resolved in this order:

  1. --base-url <url> flag on any command
  2. HOMERAIL_MANAGER_URL environment variable
  3. ${HOMERAIL_HOME}/config.json
  4. Default: http://localhost:19191

The default Manager port is 19191. Override it with HOMERAIL_MANAGER_PORT for local service startup, or use a full HOMERAIL_MANAGER_URL / --base-url when the Manager is on another host or port. The default Agent UI HTTPS port is 19192. Override it with HOMERAIL_UI_PORT or ui.port in local config. The HTTP fallback port is 19193; override it with HOMERAIL_UI_HTTP_PORT or ui.httpPort.

Read the full file on GitHub · 427 lines

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. 13d ago First seen · 427 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A fc8d06c929a0

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homerail-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaotianfotos/homerail (951 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 3,384 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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