remote-systems-administration SKILL.md skillA
remote-systems-administration from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration@git:20260805.3eb7bd4Pins git:20260805.3eb7bd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
remote-systems-administration/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260805.3eb7bd4, committed Aug 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 9,655 bytes
- Repository stars
- 166
- License
- MIT
Administer and troubleshoot remote Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS systems safely, one host or a fleet at a time. Use when a task requires SSH, Ansible, Paramiko, POSIX diagnostics, service management, software updates, system configuration, firewall changes, or evidence-led remote operations. Do not use for local-only desktop administration, container or cluster orchestration (route to kubernetes), or cloud consoles that expose no remote shell.
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
# Remote Systems Administration Use this as an operating decision layer, not a bag of remote commands. Unix-like systems share a vocabulary but not an implementation. Identify the target's platform and active control plane before choosing a command. ## Operating contract 1. **Discover before changing.** Record target identity, production status, OS and release, service manager, package manager, firewall, access route, privilege path, and current state. Do not infer them from hostname, memory, or inventory labels. 2. **Use the smallest valid control plane.** Native SSH for a bounded one-host task; Ansible for repeatable desired state across a fleet; Paramiko only when a Python program genuinely needs SSH protocol control that the first two cannot provide. 3. **Protect access first.** Before changing SSH, routing, DNS, a firewall, privilege escalation, or a network interface, establish a tested rollback and a second recovery path. Keep the current session alive until the new path works. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration@sha256:ba9474c6aaecce9cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260805.3eb7bd4, 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_zxm7o7geejv7n5fi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Aug 5, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260805.3eb7bd4 latest | 2026-08-05 | 3eb7bd4 | 9,655 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260714.6e95d04 | 2026-07-14 | 6e95d04 | 9,398 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260714.6fb592f | 2026-07-14 | 6fb592f | 8,491 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.3b1b4df | 2026-07-13 | 3b1b4df | 7,728 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.a423378 | 2026-07-13 | a423378 | 8,283 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 (9655 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 166 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zxm7o7geejv7n5fi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/remote-systems-administration GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ba9474c6aaecce9c0fae167006c21275894132b46363ada25e7cb5fbc3f75524
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.