networking

networking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xobotyi/cc-foundry. It costs 102 tokens per session (4,757 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for designing and securing networks in self-hosted environments, including local services, firewalls, DNS, VPNs, and reverse proxies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for VLANs, firewall rules, DNS servers, reverse proxies, VPN tunnels, TLS certificates, DHCP, and network hardening.
Why use it?
It helps separate trusted and untrusted systems, control traffic, protect connections, and make network services easier to operate securely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the infrastructure plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/xobotyi/cc-foundry/networking
Any agent
npx skills add xobotyi/cc-foundry --skill networking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xobotyi/cc-foundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install infrastructure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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 networking

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/networking.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xobotyi/cc-foundry/networking)
Your own site
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,757 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00102 $0.04757
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02379
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00951
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00476

Measured 4d ago against content hash ecd25dd239a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

networking scanned grade A 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `curl -v` -- HTTP/HTTPS connectivity with TLS details
plugins/infrastructure/skills/networking/SKILL.md · 450 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 450 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Networking

Security is a non-negotiable default, not an optional add-on. Every network design decision must account for trust boundaries.

References

Extended configuration examples, comparison tables, and detailed patterns for the rules below live in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/.

  • vlan-segmentation.md — VLAN design, trunk/access ports, inter-VLAN policy, Layer 2 security: segment table, firewall rule matrix, hardware requirements, DHCP snooping, DAI, port security, L2 attack mitigation
  • firewall-rules.md — nftables syntax, OPNsense/pfSense hardening, IPv6 firewall rules: chain types/hooks/priorities, connection tracking, NAT, rate limiting, sets/maps, ICMPv6 policy, dual-stack rules
  • dns-architecture.md — Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, split-horizon, mDNS, Unbound, DoH/DoT: tool comparison, deployment patterns, Avahi reflector config, recursive vs authoritative, encrypted DNS, IPv6 DNS
  • reverse-proxy.md — Caddy, Traefik, Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare tunnels: Caddyfile examples, Traefik Docker labels, decision matrix, snippet patterns, tunnel patterns, auth proxy integration
  • vpn-tunnels.md — WireGuard, Tailscale, Headscale, site-to-site, HA with OSPF: config examples, topology comparison, subnet router, hybrid WG+TS, HA failover with BIRD/OSPF
  • tls-certificates.md — Let's Encrypt, ACME, wildcard certs, acme.sh: challenge types, ACME client comparison, certificate storage patterns, TLS config
  • security-hardening.md — SSH, fail2ban, CrowdSec, IDS/IPS, monitoring, hardening: sshd_config, SSH CA, fail2ban vs CrowdSec, Suricata IDS, Prometheus stack, monitoring metrics, IPv6 hardening
  • auth-proxies.md — Authelia, Authentik, forward auth, SSO patterns: Authelia vs Authentik comparison, ForwardAuth with Traefik/Caddy, SSO/MFA patterns, deployment guidance

VLAN Segmentation

Segment by Trust Level

Separate traffic into functional zones based on trust, not device count:

  • Management (VLAN 10): Hypervisors, switches, routers, IPMI/iLO -- highest trust
  • Trusted/Lab (VLAN 20): VMs, containers, workstation -- high trust
  • IoT (VLAN 30): Smart devices, cameras, sensors -- low trust, restricted
  • Guest (VLAN 40): Visitor devices -- zero trust, internet only
  • Storage (VLAN 50): NAS, iSCSI, backup targets -- high trust, limited access
  • DMZ (VLAN 99): Publicly exposed services -- medium trust, no inward access

Read the full file on GitHub · 450 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. 4d ago First seen · 450 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A ecd25dd239a2

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networking is a skill published in the GitHub repository xobotyi/cc-foundry (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 4,757 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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