deploying-boxes SKILL.md skillA

deploying-boxes from ampcode/official-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ampcode/official-plugins/deploying-boxes@git:20261104.7e6fddc

Pins git:20261104.7e6fddc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ampcode/official-plugins
Path
skills/deploying-boxes/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261104.7e6fddc, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Nov 3, 2026
Size
27,010 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
none declared

Deploys websites and tools as named deployments on an always-on Amp Box with `amp boxes deploy`, manages their secrets, sets a Box's daily run schedule and starts or stops it to save costs, renames a Box, shows its projected monthly cost, starts threads on a deployment's live release, and makes a deployment private to the Box's owner or workspace, and adds Sign in with Amp to an app, with a bundled SvelteKit starter. Use for first deploys, redeploys, adding another app to a Box, creating…

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

# Deploying to Boxes

A Box is an always-on Google Compute Engine machine owned by a user or a workspace. It runs one Amp runner and hosts several independently deployed apps, called deployments. Each deployment has its own repository, branch, port, secrets, data directory, and URL, `https://<deployment>--<namespace>.onamp.dev`. A router on the Box listens on port 8080 and sends each URL to its deployment's port.

A Box selector is `<namespace>/<box>`. The namespace picks the owner: the user's Amp username for a personal Box, or the name of a workspace the user belongs to for a workspace Box. `get_current_user_identity` returns the Amp username as `ampUsername`; never use a GitHub login instead. A user without an Amp username cannot create a personal Box until they have one: offer to choose one with the `manage_amp` settings key `username` (the user approves the name in a dialog, and it cannot be changed by an agent afterwards), or offer a workspace Box when they belong to a workspace that has Boxes. Choose the deployment name separately with `--name`. Deployment names share the owner's URL namespace, so a deployment name must not match any of the owner's Box names or a deployment
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ampcode/official-plugins/deploying-boxes@sha256:c670792511e5ca0b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.7e6fddc, 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 5 versions of this file, between Nov 3, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, more than one a day.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (27010 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

GitHub

ampcode/official-plugins · 21 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tdjookvor2xjwxtc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ampcode/official-plugins/deploying-boxes
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c670792511e5ca0bece2748c5a1dc46b98074dab1879d2f51a96b2adcbe5a8f4

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