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vps-forge

mountain-beaverby mountain-beaver14 days ago

Set up, harden, audit and polish a Linux VPS (Debian/Ubuntu) to production grade without ever losing access — SSH keys and crypto, firewall, fail2ban/CrowdSec, automatic security updates, kernel hardening, Docker, Caddy/nginx with TLS, WireGuard/Tailscale, restic backups, phone alerts, monitoring and a final verified score. Use this skill whenever the user mentions a VPS, VDS, cloud server, droplet, Hetzner/DigitalOcean/Vultr/Linode/OVH/AWS Lightsail box, a "fresh server", "secure/harden/lock down my server", SSH hardening, ufw, fail2ban, "set up Docker/Caddy/nginx on my server", preparing a server for Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover or Kamal, server backups or monitoring, or asks to audit or check an existing server — even if they don't say "harden". Not for RHEL/Fedora-family servers, Kubernetes nodes (k3s, kubeadm), Proxmox or other hypervisor hosts, managed or shared hosting without root, or the user's own desktop.

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/mountain-beaver/vps-forge --skill vps-forge
Show step-by-step
  1. 1

    Open your terminal

    • Mac: Press ⌘ Space, type "Terminal", press Enter
    • Windows: Press Win R, type "cmd", press Enter
  2. 2

    Paste the command above and press Enter

    Use the Copy command button, then paste in your terminal (Mac: ⌘V, Windows: Ctrl V).

  3. 3

    Restart Claude Code

    Close and reopen Claude Code, or start a new session, so it picks up the new skill.

Where it lives
~/.claude/skills/mountain-beaver--vps-forge--skills--vps-forge/
├── SKILL.md
└── ... (skill resource files)
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Comments

X@LLMpsycho

"vps-forge: an Agent Skill that has Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents set up and harden a Debian or Ubuntu VPS. Any change that could lock you out..."

Always review skill code before installing. Third-party skills may contain scripts that run on your machine.

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