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setup-vps
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By Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills (GitHub) · coding · 35 stars · scanned at commit 6a0180a
Turn the user's VPS into their 24/7 agent. Copies their GitHub and Cloudflare access, installs Hermes on Claude Code, to chat with on Telegram or Discord, and puts its dashboard on hermes.their-domain behind a sign-in page: email + one-time code sent by Lumail, several users with roles (admin, member), brute-force locks and saved IPs. `/setup-vps discord` connects Hermes to Discord almost on its own: bot, private channel, access role. Use after connect-vps.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
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What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: raw.githubusercontent.com, hermes., pkg.cloudflare.com, dl.cloudsmith.io, claude.ai, cli.github.com, api.cloudflare.com
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
Found in 24 places.
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- skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 48
out="$(curl -sS -X "$1" "$API$2" -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" ${3:+--data "$3"})" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 176
curl -s -o /dev/null "http://127.0.0.1:$GATE_AUTH_PORT/" && return - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 248
curl -fsSL https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-main.gpg -o /usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 255
curl -fsSL https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor --yes -o /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-stable-archive-keyring.gpg - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 256
curl -fsSL https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/debian.deb.txt -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list - skills/setup-vps/scripts/gate.py, line 38
import urllib.request - skills/setup-vps/scripts/gate.py, line 284
req = urllib.request.Request(LUMAIL_API, body, {"Authorization": f"Bearer {key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"}) - skills/setup-vps/scripts/gate.py, line 286
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as r: - skills/setup-vps/scripts/gate.py, line 316
with urllib.request.urlopen(LOOKUP.format(ip=urllib.parse.quote(ip)), timeout=5) as r: - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 90
command -v claude >/dev/null 2>&1 || curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 91
command -v hermes >/dev/null 2>&1 || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --non-interacti - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 163
code="$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "http://127.0.0.1:$port/" || true)" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 208
curl -fsSL "$base/SHASUMS256.txt" -o "$tmp/SHASUMS256.txt" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 210
curl -fsSL "$base/$file" -o "$tmp/$file" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 297
echo "dashboard=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:9119/ || echo down)" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 46
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | $SUDO tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 84
if remote ". $cf_env 2>/dev/null && curl -fsS -H \"Authorization: Bearer \$CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN\" https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/\$CLOUDFLARE_ACC
and 4 more places
Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this.
Found in 13 places.
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- skills/setup-vps/SKILL.md, line 28
- Give the gate its own key, through a pipe, never printed: `npx -y lumail@latest --json tokens create --name "Sign-in <alias>" --permissions emails --no-reuse - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 89
|| { $SUDO apt-get update -qq && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive $SUDO apt-get install -y -qq git curl jq ca-certificates >/dev/null; } - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 90
command -v claude >/dev/null 2>&1 || curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 91
command -v hermes >/dev/null 2>&1 || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --non-interacti - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 206
command -v xz >/dev/null 2>&1 || { $SUDO apt-get update -qq && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive $SUDO apt-get install -y -qq xz-utils >/dev/null; } - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 216
command -v cf >/dev/null 2>&1 || $SUDO npm install -g --silent cf >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 44
$SUDO apt-get install -y -qq curl git ca-certificates >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 50
$SUDO apt-get install -y -qq gh >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 52
command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || $SUDO apt-get install -y -qq git >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 70
need jq "brew install jq"
Changes files outside its own folder
The author does not mention this.
Found in 20 places.
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- skills/setup-vps/references/hermes.md, line 5
If the test answers with an error about "extra usage" or a 400 from Anthropic, Claude counts Hermes as extra usage on the subscription. Tell the user, in plain - skills/setup-vps/references/hermes.md, line 25
Skills. Every skill of the server lives in `~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md`. Hermes reads that folder through `skills.external_dirs`, next to its own `~/.herm - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 152
cat > /etc/systemd/system/vps-gate.service <<EOF - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 247
mkdir -p --mode=0755 /usr/share/keyrings - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 249
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg] https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudflared.list - skills/setup-vps/scripts/expose.sh, line 276
cat > /etc/systemd/system/vps-tunnel.service <<EOF - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 42
mkdir -p "$SKILLS" "$HOME/.claude/skills" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 92
grep -q '.local/bin' "$HOME/.bashrc" 2>/dev/null || echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> "$HOME/.bashrc" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 281
mkdir -p "$HOME/.cache/removed-skills" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 286
mv "$dest" "$HOME/.cache/removed-skills/$name-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/hermes.sh, line 287
[ -L "$HOME/.claude/skills/$name" ] && rm "$HOME/.claude/skills/$name" - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 45
$SUDO mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 46
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | $SUDO tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 48
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | $SUDO tee - skills/setup-vps/scripts/import-keys.sh, line 115
remote "for rc in ~/.bashrc ~/.profile; do touch \$rc; grep -q 'config/cloudflare/env' \$rc || { printf '%s\n' '[ -f ~/.config/cloudflare/env ] && . ~/.config/c - skills/setup-vps/server-skills/create-dashboard/SKILL.md, line 11
2. Commands: `P=~/.cache/ai-maxxing-skills/skills/setup-my-hermes-dashboard; git -C ~/.cache/ai-maxxing-skills pull -q --ff-only; install -m 755 $P/scripts/dash - skills/setup-vps/server-skills/create-dashboard/SKILL.md, line 12
3. Code, only if `~/projects/dashboard` does not exist: `mkdir -p ~/projects && cp -R ~/.cache/ai-maxxing-skills/skills/setup-my-hermes-dashboard/template ~/pro
Runs commands on your computer
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.
Found in 2 places.
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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'setup-vps' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'setup-vps' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named setup-vps already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '6a0180aa7d89c7b572ecc7cbc47ed1d42a6ead62' -- 'skills/setup-vps' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/setup-vps' ~/.agents/skills/'setup-vps' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'setup-vps' ~/.claude/skills/'setup-vps' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-09 | 6a0180a | 69 |
| 2026-11-07 | 57b7962 | 69 |