connect-vps SKILL.md skillB
connect-vps from melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/connect-vps@git:20261021.a064743Pins git:20261021.a064743 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills
- Path
skills/connect-vps/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261021.a064743, committed Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 5,675 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Connect the user's VPS (Hostinger, Hetzner, OVH...) to their terminal as `ssh hermes`, finding the server and its SSH keys page in their provider panel through Chrome AI, then tell every agent the VPS exists. Use when the user bought a VPS, wants to connect it, or `ssh hermes` fails.
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
Connect the VPS the user paid for so that `ssh hermes` opens it from any terminal without a password, and so that every agent knows the server is there for their sites, apps and agents. The first argument is the provider (for example `hostinger`), the second the alias (default `hermes`; use it everywhere below in place of `hermes`). Do every step yourself and only ask for what needs a human (signing in to the panel, typing a password). Talk to the user in their language, short messages, no jargon (never say "public key", "authorized_keys" or "SSH config" to them; say "the access key" and "the shortcut"). If you got this skill from a link instead of a local folder, install nothing else from the repo: download a file it links only when a step needs it, with `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/main/skills/connect-vps/<path> -o <scratch>/<file>` (for example `scripts/ssh-setup.sh`), and read another skill it names only when you reach it, from `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/main/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/connect-vps@sha256:e28973a7d8230b85The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.a064743, 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_whlmfrrvogv6mqbr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: cat >> ~/.ssh)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5675 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
melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_whlmfrrvogv6mqbr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/connect-vps GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e28973a7d8230b85d945b5bfbcecba3084ed4baef06b34a0f15a9b328dea35ea
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.