aegis-updates-patching SKILL.md skillA
aegis-updates-patching from as-foss/aegis-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add as-foss/aegis-skills/aegis-updates-patching@git:20260826.9702747Pins git:20260826.9702747 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- as-foss/aegis-skills
- Path
skills/server/updates-patching/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260826.9702747, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 34,445 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- Apache-2.0
Audits Linux server patch discipline and attack-surface minimization — distro EOL posture, pending security updates, unattended-update automation, reboot debt, unused services, legacy protocols, kernel-module hardening, and host runtime currency.
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
## Scope & Objectives Assess patch discipline and attack-surface minimization on one Linux server (or its config-as-code repo). Answer, in priority order: 1. **Distro identity & lifecycle stage** — which release is running, and is it plausibly within vendor support? Flag uncertainty honestly (Needs-Review with the exact release string), never assert an invented EOL date. 2. **Reboot debt** — does `uname -r` lag the newest installed kernel package? Installed-but-not-running fixes are dormant. 3. **Pending update inventory** — how many updates are outstanding, and how many belong to the security pocket / advisory stream. 4. **Automation** — is an unattended/automated security-update mechanism installed, configured with security origins, and *armed* (timer active)? 5. **Restart honesty** — uptime evidence for deferred kernel/libc/systemd restarts; maintenance-window posture. 6. **Surface shrinkage** — offender services (rpcbind, nfs-common, avahi-daemon, cups, postfix, xinetd, samba) and legacy protocol servers (telnet/rsh/tftp/ftp) in enabled/active/disabled/masked/purged states. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add as-foss/aegis-skills/aegis-updates-patching@sha256:73f896b758c9030eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.9702747, 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_loq3jqk7drayrpwn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260826.9702747 latest | 2026-08-26 | 9702747 | 34,445 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.85624bc | 2026-08-25 | 85624bc | 34,446 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.244c198 | 2026-08-25 | 244c198 | 33,396 B | A | view |
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 (34445 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
as-foss/aegis-skills · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-08-26 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_loq3jqk7drayrpwn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=as-foss/aegis-skills/aegis-updates-patching GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73f896b758c9030e85c6a3a474cb27708e47c22c9ed57973a8e16d69f36373e0
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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.