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Best linux administration skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Retries failed network commands through proxychains4 and a local proxy when it sees timeouts, DNS failures or blocked access. | 2025Emma/ | 23k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 2 | Operates tmux sessions like an administrator: reads pane output, sends keys, inspects many panes at once, and coordinates multiple AI terminals through a swarm state script, built on oh-my-tmux. | tradecatlabs/ | 17k | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 3 | Provision and verify an OSWorld-V2 checkout after clone. An agent skill from xlang-ai/OSWorld-V2. | xlang-ai/ | 351 | 1 repo | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 4 | Deploy or upgrade OpenBKN on a customer-authorized Linux server through the repository's deploy scripts, with preflight checks, explicit confirmation, secret handling, and post-deployment… | openbkn-ai/ | 629 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | today |
| 5 | Checks status, tails logs, queries the task queue, and starts, stops or restarts the Pilot daemon running on a specific AWS EC2 instance over SSM. | qf-studio/ | 722 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | yesterday |
| 6 | Diagnoses and repairs Windows, macOS and Linux computers with evidence first, a confirmed plan, minimal changes and verification, using on-demand playbooks. | 88lin/ | 348 | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Warn | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when managing Alibaba Cloud Simple Application Server (SWAS OpenAPI 2020-06-01) resources end-to-end, including querying instances, starting/stopping/rebooting, executing… | cinience/ | 397 | 1 repo | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 8 | 8.Clawmem ClawMem operational reference for agents at query time — the 3-rule escalation gate, MCP tool routing, the 4 query-optimization levers, pipeline behavior (query vs intentsearch), composite scoring… | yoloshii/ | 210 | — | ~7.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 9 | 9.Minimega This skill should be used when the user asks how to configure, run, automate, integrate, or troubleshoot minimega (VMs, namespaces, VLANs, clusters, miniccc, miniweb, command socket or Python API… | sandia-minimega/ | 160 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0-only | yesterday |
| 10 | Creates and maintains the per-distro JSON files that list the native packages .NET needs on each Linux distribution, scoped to one .NET version. | dotnet/ | 22k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 11 | Testing Effect HttpApi services end-to-end. An agent skill from UsefulSoftwareCo/executor. | UsefulSoftwareCo/ | 4.1k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | 12.Remix Build and review Remix 3 applications using the remix npm package and subpath imports. | epicweb-dev/ | 127 | — | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 13 | Set up and verify a new Draw Things CPU proxy and Envoy server using the scripts in Scripts/ServerManagement/CPUScript. | drawthingsai/ | 579 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 14 | 安装、配置、配对、迁移、升级、诊断、回滚或卸载 Mimi Remote;在 macOS 上安装和维护 Mimi Remote Mac 菜单栏 App / DMG,或通过 Homebrew、Linux user-systemd 部署 agentd;从源码构建 iPhone/iPad App;配置 Codex 主通道和可选 Claude Code 实验 Runtime。用户提出“安装 Mimi… | gaixianggeng/ | 103 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 15 | Debugs a single Linux host or container runtime at the kernel level with the standalone ig binary and eBPF gadgets, read-only and without Kubernetes. | inspektor-gadget/ | 2.9k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 16 | 16.Termux Safe Android/Termux constraints reference. An agent skill from ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android. | ferrumclaudepilgrim/ | 266 | — | ~935 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 17 | Deploy, install, and run the ShadowVPN client in a target environment — Linux (systemd), macOS (launchd), or Windows (Wintun, foreground launcher or scheduled-task service). | madeye/ | 101 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 18 | Updates chosen or all Nix flake inputs, checks the result with nix flake check and a system rebuild, fixes warnings, then offers to commit. | Ruixi-rebirth/ | 100 | — | ~469 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 19 | Deploy, install, and run the ShadowVPN server in a target environment (Linux/systemd). | madeye/ | 101 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 20 | Troubleshoot an Alibaba Cloud ECS Linux OS. An agent skill from aliyun/alibabacloud-ecs-troubleshoot-skills. | aliyun/ | 148 | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 21 | Run and operate SubZeroClaw — the ~550-line C agentic daemon (skill.md + LLM + shell + loop). | genlayerlabs/ | 137 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 22 | A runbook, written in Portuguese, for keeping Hermes Agent healthy on a VPS: updates, gateway restarts, health checks and hosts without a systemd user bus. | Hermes-brasil/ | 152 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 23 | Rebuilds a Flake-based NixOS system through a wrapper script that validates, formats, picks the host, runs the chosen rebuild mode and checks the result. | Ruixi-rebirth/ | 100 | — | ~356 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 24 | 24.Ravendb Read this before writing any RavenDB query, client call or /databases/ request. | ravendb/ | 115 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 25 | Runs commands, reads and edits files, and copies data on remote machines through a single-file Node script that wraps the system ssh and scp, in Chinese. | KonghaYao/ | 223 | — | ~924 | Automated safety check: Warn | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 26 | Apply CIS benchmarks and secure Linux servers. An agent skill from BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills. | BagelHole/ | 1.1k | — | ~662 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 27 | 27.App Deployer Deploy and manage user applications as managed systemd services | bolivian-peru/ | 118 | — | ~774 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 28 | Bringing up a complete ROS2 system on a robot's onboard computer: systemd services, launch file composition, ordered startup, and production monitoring. | arpitg1304/ | 368 | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 29 | Guide for deploying AgenticX agents to production including Docker containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, Volcengine AgentKit cloud deployment, and API server setup. | DemonDamon/ | 279 | — | ~866 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 30 | Tool discovery and shell one-liner reference for sysadmin, DevOps, and security tasks. | aAAaqwq/ | 105 | 2 repos | ~775 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 days ago |
| 31 | 31.Nix Service Manage nix-managed launchd and systemd services. An agent skill from r17x/universe. | r17x/ | 151 | — | ~513 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 3 days ago |
| 32 | 32.Agent Chat XMTP real-time agent-to-agent and user-to-agent encrypted messaging daemon for EverClaw. | profbernardoj/ | 112 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 33 | WireGuard VPN server setup, peer configuration, key generation, split tunneling vs full tunnel routing, and remote access to a home network from mobile and laptop clients. | affaan-m/ | 274k | 1 repo | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 34 | Create and manage systemd services and timers. An agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. | sickn33/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 35 | 35.Daily Update Run or configure the daily wiki maintenance cycle: check source freshness, refresh the index and hot.md, and manage its scheduled 9 AM launchd/systemd/cron reminder. | Ar9av/ | 3.5k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 36 | 36.Webapp Nikto Web server vulnerability scanner for identifying security issues, misconfigurations, and outdated software versions. | AgentSecOps/ | 219 | 1 repo | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 5 mo ago |
| 37 | Hardens Linux endpoints using CIS Benchmark recommendations for Ubuntu, RHEL, and CentOS to reduce attack surface, enforce security baselines, and meet compliance requirements. | mukul975/ | 34k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 38 | Examine Linux system artifacts (auth logs, cron/systemd persistence, shell history, SSH keys, and system configuration) to uncover evidence of compromise, detect rootkits or backdoors, and… | mukul975/ | 34k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 39 | A skill your agent uses when operating Inngest API resources from the terminal with npx inngest-cli@latest api: Cloud/local run debugging, event-run lookup, function traces, function invocation, app… | Asymmetric-al/ | 382 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 40 | Apply CIS benchmarks and secure Linux servers. An agent skill from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. | sickn33/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~875 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 41 | 41.Podman Manage containers using Podman, the daemonless container engine. | sickn33/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 42 | Diagnose and operate Linux hosts, services, packages, permissions, SELinux, firewalls, and SSH. | ChrisTitusTech/ | 145 | — | ~422 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 43 | 43.Lowercase A skill your agent uses when auditing URL structure or configuring a new site's routing. | thedaviddias/ | 74k | — | ~539 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 44 | Manage Linux systems covering systemd services, process management, filesystems, networking, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. | ancoleman/ | 526 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 10 mo ago |
| 45 | 45.Sysadmin System administration expert for Linux, macOS, Windows, services, and monitoring | RightNow-AI/ | 18k | — | ~631 | Automated safety check: Warn | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 46 | Linux system troubleshooting workflow for diagnosing and resolving system issues, performance problems, and service failures. | aiskillstore/ | 430 | 5 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 47 | Windows 11 system administration with PowerShell — system info reporting, hardware monitoring, package management (winget/scoop), disk cleanup, performance optimization, environment configuration… | EliasOulkadi/ | 114 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 48 | Triage and resolve Arch Linux issues with pacman, systemd, and rolling-release best practices. | github/ | 40k | 1 repo | ~232 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best linux administration skill?
Proxychains Network Fallback from 2025Emma/vibe-coding-cn ranks first of the 75 linux administration skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 23k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.1k tokens and it has informational notes only in the automated safety check. Next come Auto tmux Operator and Setup Osworld.
Which linux administration skills are official?
5 of the 75 linux administration skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Update .NET Distro Packages, Arch Linux Triage, Debian Linux Triage, Fedora Linux Triage and Doca Bare Metal Deployment.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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