Vps server management

Skill adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/cursor-claude-codex/skills/david-ondrej/ops-and-setup/vps-server-management

Use when David wants to manage his VPS servers and the AI agents running inside them — connecting, deploying, monitoring, restarting, and operating remote hosts and their agents. Triggers on VPS, server management, remote host, SSH into server, manage my servers, agents on the server.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai --skill vps-server-management

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SKILL.md

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VPS Server Management

Source of truth: <path-to-infrastructure-doc>/infrastructure.md (read it for the latest — IPs/expirations change).

Servers (Hostinger VPS) — 3 total

Hostname	IP	OS	Purpose	Expires
personal.openclaw	<IP-1>	Ubuntu 24.04 (Dokploy)	OpenClaw — personal instance	<expiry-date>
n8n.automations	<IP-2>	Ubuntu 24.04 (n8n)	All n8n workflow automations (primary)	<expiry-date>
private.hermes	<IP-3>	Ubuntu 24.04	Hermes Agent — Discord gateway	<expiry-date>

SSH as root@<IP>.

Access levels (never share higher than needed)

App login — e.g. <n8n-app-hostname>. Build/edit workflows, no server access. Safest to share.
VPS SSH — root@<IP>. Docker, files, system config. Trusted technical people only.
Hostinger hPanel — hpanel.hostinger.com. Billing, reboot, OS reinstall. Exposes SSH creds + browser terminal, so it grants server access too. David only.

Managing a VPS via an agent

For multi-step or exploratory work, SSH into the box first and launch the agent ON the VPS (e.g. codex --yolo), then talk to that local-on-server agent — it has full filesystem/process context and avoids fragile SSH round-trips. For short command sequences (update, config change, restart), driving an existing SSH session directly (e.g. via a cmux pane) is fine.

When checking on a remote/on-box agent, send David one concise status line each time: what it is doing and whether it is on track.

Claude Code cmux note: after Claude finishes, it may prefill a predicted next user message; that draft is Claude, not David speaking.

Agents on servers

OpenClaw → personal.openclaw (managed via Dokploy).
Hermes → private.hermes (Discord gateway). Setup/config docs in library/hermes/.
n8n → n8n.automations.

Hermes ops (on private.hermes)

hermes --version            # shows version + commits behind
hermes update               # auto-snapshots, updates deps, rebuilds web UI, restarts gateway itself
hermes gateway status|restart
journalctl --user -u hermes-gateway --since '5 min ago' --no-pager   # gateway logs (systemd USER service)

Default model lives in ~/.hermes/config.yaml under model.provider + model.default — NOT in .env. Change via hermes model (interactive) or edit the yaml directly, then hermes gateway restart to propagate to gateways.
npm EBADENGINE warnings during update (deps want Node >=24, box runs v22) are non-blocking — do not "fix" them.
Deeper docs (Discord/Slack/WhatsApp setup, file structure, vision config): library/hermes/.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.