asus-esc8000-firmware-upgrade SKILL.md skillA
asus-esc8000-firmware-upgrade from soulmachine/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add soulmachine/skills/asus-esc8000-firmware-upgrade@git:20260610.1c5c032Pins git:20260610.1c5c032 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- soulmachine/skills
- Path
asus-esc8000-firmware-upgrade/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260610.1c5c032, committed Jun 10, 2026
- Size
- 3,556 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Check and upgrade BMC firmware and BIOS on ASUS ESC8000-E12P (and similar ASMB12/AST2600 AMI-BMC ASUS servers) via Redfish and the BMC's HPM wizard API. Use when asked to check firmware/BIOS versions, update BMC or BIOS on ASUS GPU servers, or recover a BMC stuck in firmware-update/flash mode (login blocked, Redfish 503).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# ASUS ESC8000 BMC/BIOS Upgrade
Validated end-to-end on ESC8000-E12P (ASMB12-iKVM, AMI SP-X gen13). BMC updates are host-safe;
BIOS updates require the chassis powered OFF and a host reboot.
## Quick start — check current + latest versions
```bash
export BMC_PASSWORD='...'
scripts/check_versions.sh <BMC_IP> # current BMC FW, BIOS, power state
scripts/check_versions.sh <BMC_IP> ESC8000-E12P # + latest versions from ASUS API
```
Download zips from the URLs the ASUS API returns. BIOS zip → `.HPM` (BMC-flashable) + `.CAP`
(EzFlash only — don't use here). BMC zip → `.hpm`.
## Workflow A — BMC firmware (host keeps running)
```bash
scripts/bmc_update.sh <BMC_IP> <BMC_fw.hpm>
```
Does: preserve-config flags → Redfish multipart push → flash → BMC auto-reboot → version verify.
~10 min. **Warning:** after the BMC reboots, the host may power ON via power-restore policy —
re-check chassis state before any subsequent BIOS work.
## Workflow B — BIOS (chassis must be OFF)
1. Confirm with the operator that the host may go down; gracefully shut it down:
`POST /redfish/v1/Systems/<id>/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset {"ResetType":"GracefulShutdown"}`
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add soulmachine/skills/asus-esc8000-firmware-upgrade@sha256:492081905a831a51The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260610.1c5c032, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3z67csskfm2cebii)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 10, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3556 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
soulmachine/skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3z67csskfm2cebii GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=soulmachine/skills/asus-esc8000-firmware-upgrade GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/492081905a831a51f27bd40a0210da1014aec53a77e96dbbde09315a41d9098b
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.