Skills os-scripting
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os-scripting
Content revision r2 Safe ⚙️ External commands🌐 Network access📁 Filesystem access
Troubleshoot and Automate Operating Systems
Shell troubleshooting often becomes inconsistent across diagnosis, repair, testing, and automation. This skill provides a structured workflow for Bash analysis, Linux diagnostics, testing, and scheduled operations.
Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
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Review the Skillstore skill "os-scripting" from https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-os-scripting.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/sickn33-os-scripting/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.
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Using "os-scripting". A backup script exits early when an optional directory is absent.
Expected outcome:
- Likely cause: strict error handling treats the missing optional path as fatal.
- Recommended change: validate optional paths and handle absence explicitly.
- Validation: run ShellCheck and test present, absent, and inaccessible directory cases.
Using "os-scripting". A Linux service consumes high CPU after deployment.
Expected outcome:
- Start with process and service status evidence, then compare recent logs.
- Confirm the affected process before tracing or restarting it.
- Record a rollback condition and monitor CPU after the approved change.
Using "os-scripting". Create a daily maintenance workflow for log cleanup.
Expected outcome:
The plan includes retention rules, a tested cleanup script, approval before scheduling, failure logging, disk monitoring, and a rollback procedure.
Security Audit
Safev6 • 8/4/2026 Open versioned report
All 88 static findings are false positives caused by Markdown formatting or transparent operating system administration examples. No prompt injection, hidden execution, credential access, data exfiltration, or malicious persistence intent was found.
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Files scanned
434
Lines analyzed
0
Review items
0
False positives ignored
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (50)
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🌐 Network access (2)
📁 Filesystem access (3)
No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.
Audited by: codex View Audit History →
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Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: High 55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
68
Community
83
Spec Compliance
What You Can Build
Repair a failing shell script
Trace errors, apply defensive Bash patterns, and define focused regression tests.
Diagnose a Linux service incident
Collect system evidence, rank likely causes, and prepare controlled recovery steps.
Plan recurring maintenance
Design a tested script, scheduling approach, monitoring checks, and rollback procedure.
Try These Prompts
Assess a system issue
Assess this system issue: [SYMPTOMS]. Identify the operating system, collect read-only diagnostics, explain findings, and request approval before any change.
Review a Bash script
Review [SCRIPT] for quoting, error handling, portability, and unsafe assumptions. Explain each issue, propose revisions, and outline ShellCheck validation.
Design shell tests
Design Bats tests for [SCRIPT] covering success, missing arguments, edge cases, and failures. Describe fixtures, isolation, expected results, and cleanup.
Investigate and automate recovery
Investigate [INCIDENT] on [ENVIRONMENT]. Build a phased diagnostic plan, rank hypotheses, minimize privilege, define rollback steps, and propose monitored automation.
Best Practices
- Begin with read-only diagnostics and record the current state before making changes.
- Validate scripts with ShellCheck and focused tests before deployment or scheduling.
- Request explicit approval for privileged commands, service changes, and persistent automation.
Avoid
- Do not run broad root-level searches before confirming scope and resource impact.
- Do not restart services or edit schedules without validation and rollback steps.
- Do not paste untrusted values into shell commands without quoting and input validation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which operating systems does this skill cover?
The workflow mentions Linux, macOS, and Windows, but most concrete commands and templates are for Linux and Bash.
Does the skill execute commands automatically?
No executable files are included. An agent may run suggested commands only when the environment and user permissions allow it.
Can it create production-ready Bash scripts?
It provides a defensive structure and quality checklist. Production use still requires environment-specific review, tests, and deployment controls.
Does it support shell script testing?
Yes. It outlines ShellCheck analysis and Bats tests for success, failures, arguments, edge cases, and output files.
Can it configure cron or systemd timers?
It can plan schedules and show examples. Persistent changes require explicit approval, correct permissions, monitoring, and rollback preparation.
Are the diagnostic commands always safe?
No. Some commands require privileges, scan broad paths, expose system details, consume resources, or alter services and schedules.