agentic-vps SKILL.md skillA
agentic-vps 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/agentic-vps@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
- Path
skills/compute/agentic-vps/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 28, 2026
- Size
- 7,046 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Provision and harden a fresh Linux VPS into an autonomous-agent dev host using the capability-preserving model — the box IS the sandbox: full agent autonomy inside it (non-root sudo user, open egress, YOLO mode, any toolchain), contained by ISOLATION (non-root + VPN-only access + snapshot + no-long-lived-secrets), not by restricting the agent. Composes an idempotent provisioning script, a staged firewall/VPN lockout-safe sequence, and a deterministic verification gate. USE WHEN setting up a…
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
# agentic-vps — provision & harden a box for autonomous agentic development The verb for "make me another machine like the one we just set up." Distilled from the srv1692698 session (BRO-1550). It does **not** reimplement server hardening — it encodes the *capability-preserving model* and the *lockout-safe staging sequence* so a future agent reaches for it instead of re-deriving it. ## The one invariant > **The box IS the sandbox.** Security comes from *containing the blast radius* > (non-root agent user · VPN-only access · snapshot rollback · no long-lived > secrets in the agent's reach), **not** from *restricting the agent* (no tight > egress allowlist, no permission prompts, no seccomp leashes). The agent gets > the same freedom it has on a local machine — full sudo, open network, any dep, > YOLO mode — because a compromise is *contained and reversible*, not *prevented*. This is the user's standing constraint: **"secure but don't limit capability/autonomy."** The model and its threat-model rationale live in `research/entities/concept/lethal-trifecta-denial.md` and the playbook at `docs/security/2026-06-24-vps-agentic-hardening-playbook.html`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/agentic-vps@sha256:5b4bfe7004a7ebf8The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_patpmb22llmd53fd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/agentic-vps GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b4bfe7004a7ebf8df1188cef5c637ea03bb7f9c494728407b3496cbdf9e8ba9
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.