Kcli Ksushy

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Managing baremetal-like VMs through the Redfish API
• Deploying the ksushy service
• Working with sushy/redfish in general

Example prompts

• “Use the kcli-ksushy skill to guide interaction with kcli VMs via ksushy (Redfish emulator)”
• “/kcli-ksushy”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Identify the current hypervisor with kcli list hosts (look for the Current column).
2. 2Get the hypervisor's FQDN or IP with kcli info host (use the host: field), or look it up in ~/.kcli/config.yml. If the host is a short…
3. 3The ksushy base URL is https://:9000/redfish/v1/Systems.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e1c0b5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use curl, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • KSUSHY_PASSWORD

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Kcli Ksushy loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 267 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~58

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:35

  l`. If the host is a short name, check `~/.ssh/config` for the actual `Hostname` (IP or FQDN).

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from karmab/kcli at commit 6e1c0b5, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© karmab). 267 words, ~1,041 tokens.

name

kcli-ksushy

description

Guides interaction with kcli VMs via ksushy (Redfish emulator). Use when booting, stopping, or managing baremetal-like VMs through the Redfish API, deploying the ksushy service, or working with sushy/redfish in general.

kcli create sushy-service

# List providers
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems

# List VMs under the local (libvirt) provider
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local

# Query a VM on a different provider
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/myotherprovider/mynode

# Get info on a specific VM
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>

# Power on a VM
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ResetType": "On"}'

# Power off a VM
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ResetType": "ForceOff"}'

# Restart a VM
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>/Actions/ComputerSystem.Reset \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ResetType": "ForceRestart"}'

# Insert ISO
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>/VirtualMedia/Cd/Actions/VirtualMedia.InsertMedia \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"Image": "http://<iso_server>/<image>.iso"}'

# Eject ISO
curl -ks https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>/VirtualMedia/Cd/Actions/VirtualMedia.EjectMedia \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{}'

curl -ks -u myuser:mypassword https://<host>:9000/redfish/v1/Systems/local/<vm_name>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/kcli-ksushy of karmab/kcli.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e1c0b5