Ping Monitor

ICMP health check for hosts, phones, and daemons

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only wrapper around the system ping utility and its requirements and instructions match that stated purpose, though provenance is unknown and a few assumptions in the README should be verified before use.

Purpose & Capability

Name and description say 'ICMP health check' and the skill only requires the 'ping' binary and provides CLI examples that call ping — this is coherent and proportionate.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md only shows examples that invoke the system 'ping' utility and does not instruct reading files or other credentials. It asserts "ping is always present" (an assumption that may be false on some systems) and does not specify the exact binary path or privilege considerations (some platforms require elevated privileges or capabilities to send ICMP).

Install Mechanism

There is no install spec and no code files — lowest-risk instruction-only skill. Nothing is downloaded or written to disk.

Credentials

No environment variables, credentials, or config paths are requested; this is proportionate to a simple ping wrapper.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill does not request always:true and is user-invocable only. It does not modify other skills or system config.

Assessment

This skill is simple and internally consistent, but check these before installing: 1) Verify the agent runtime actually has a working 'ping' binary and the agent has permission to execute it (some systems require sudo or setcap for ICMP). 2) Confirm network / ICMP is allowed between the agent and targets (firewalls often block ping). 3) Note the skill's source/homepage is unknown — if you require provenance, request a trusted source or inspect the agent's runtime commands. 4) Because it executes the system ping command, ensure your agent's ability to run arbitrary shell commands is restricted to trusted skills or run this in a sandboxed environment.

ICMP health check for hosts, phones, and daemons. Uses the standard ping utility to verify network reachability of any target host.

Commands

# Ping a host with default settings
ping-monitor <host>

# Ping a host with a specific count
ping-monitor check <host> --count 3

Install

No installation needed. ping is always present on the system.