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stryx:networking

Something cannot connect: a port in use, a firewall, DNS, or one PC that cannot see another.

/stryx:networking

Inside its piece: 10 specks, one for each file on its shelf. Its sixteen group-mates glow on the open book behind it. The light splits toward teal, the band of Web and data.

In numbers

counted 2026-10-12 in the installed set
  • 8reference files
  • 10files in the skill
  • 114KB on disk
  • 7chapters

Use it when

in the skill’s own words

When a PC, phone, dev server or local model server cannot be reached, or a network has to be set up or explained

    • "cannot connect"
    • "can't see the other PC"
    • ECONNREFUSED
    • ETIMEDOUT
    • ENOTFOUND
    • "works here, not from another PC"
    • localhost vs 127.0.0.1 vs 0.0.0.0
    • "port already in use"
    • EADDRINUSE
    • WinError 10048/10013
  • Windows firewall rules, or when tempted to turn a firewall off or bind to 0.0.0.0
  • DNS records, TTL, "DNS change not showing"
  • DHCP, NAT, port forwarding
  • A TLS certificate or proxy on the path
  • LAN access between store PCs, printers and POS
  • VPN, Tailscale, SSH tunnels
  • Router or Wi-Fi setup for a home or store
  • Slow Wi-Fi

Not for

another skill does it

Inside the book

7 chapters, by title only
  1. When this skill, and when another
  2. Four rules
  3. Cannot connect: find the layer
  4. What the error text says
  5. The reply, in this shape
  6. What a pass looks like
  7. Excuses and what is true

Works with

the skills it names most

Claude loads it by itself when the moment comes; by hand, type the line at the top. It comes with the whole set: Installs all 94 skills, 32 agents and the brain program as one set. The skill’s own text is private source and is not shown here.