remote-build

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By nubjs/nub (GitHub) · coding · 4,439 stars · scanned at commit 9b73456

Run a nub Rust build, clippy gate, test suite, or ad-hoc fixture script on an ephemeral Google Cloud spot VM instead of the dev Mac. Invoke (via the Skill tool) whenever you are about to start a COLD build, `cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features`, a full `cargo test`, a `release` build, or a fixture sweep that needs no macOS-specific behavior. THE RULE THIS SKILL EXISTS TO CARRY: the VM is the DEFAULT for all of those — not a contention fallback — and only the ~5s warm incremental loop and …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 3 places.

.claude/skills/remote-build/SKILL.md, line 26nub scripts/remote-build.ts --job clippy --detach # start it, print the VM name, exit
scripts/mac-build.ts, line 24import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
scripts/mac-build.ts, line 90return execFileSync(cmd, args, { encoding: "utf8", maxBuffer: 32 * 1024 * 1024, ...opts }).trim();

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'remote-build' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'remote-build' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named remote-build already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/nubjs/nub' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '9b734566fd36ceed8379f67a92291bc68af60801' -- '.claude/skills/remote-build' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.claude/skills/remote-build' ~/.agents/skills/'remote-build' && 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/'remote-build' ~/.claude/skills/'remote-build' (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
2026-11-11	`9b73456`	95
2026-11-08	`719c617`	95
2026-11-07	`742e698`	95