colab-remote SKILL.md skillB
colab-remote from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add broomva/skills/colab-remote@git:20260628.9edbf07Pins git:20260628.9edbf07 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
- Path
skills/compute/colab-remote/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260628.9edbf07, committed Jun 28, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Orchestrate Google Colab Pro/Pro+ GPU instances as remote training backends via SSH. Compounds /agent-browser (to launch Colab sessions and install colab-ssh) with SSH (to operate the runtime remotely). Use when: (1) launching a Colab notebook for GPU training, (2) running training jobs on Colab from the local terminal, (3) transferring datasets/checkpoints to/from Colab, (4) monitoring GPU utilization on a Colab instance, (5) integrating Colab GPU compute with /autoany EGRI optimization…
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
# Colab Remote — SSH-Operated GPU Training
Operate Google Colab Pro/Pro+ instances as headless GPU backends from the local terminal.
## Architecture
```
Local Mac (Claude Code)
├── agent-browser → Chrome → colab.research.google.com
│ └── Opens notebook, runs colab-ssh setup cell
├── SSH tunnel → Colab runtime (via ngrok or cloudflared)
│ └── Run training, monitor GPU, transfer files
└── /autoany EGRI loop (local)
└── Proposes mutations → SSH executes on Colab → evaluates results
```
## Phase 1: Launch Colab Session (Browser Automation)
Use `/agent-browser` to open Colab and set up SSH access.
### Step 1: Open Colab and create notebook
```bash
agent-browser open "https://colab.research.google.com/#create=true"
agent-browser wait --load networkidle
agent-browser snapshot -i
```
If login is required, prompt the user to authenticate manually, then re-snapshot.
### Step 2: Select GPU runtime
Navigate Runtime > Change runtime type, select GPU (T4/V100/A100 depending on plan), and save.
### Step 3: Install colab-ssh and get connection details
Type the SSH setup code into a cell. Two methods supported:
**Method A: ngrok (recommended)**
```python
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How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/colab-remote@sha256:b47b3f7c180db4c2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260628.9edbf07, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: cat > ~/.colab-remote/session.env)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6219 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 base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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