Ship a pia-vpn skill with the VPN support toggle
The toggle grants CAP_NET_ADMIN and /dev/net/tun and stops there, which users reasonably read as "turn the VPN on" — the gap between the two is the reported bug that the default network does not route through a VPN. Close it by giving the container an agent-usable way to build the tunnel, rather than leaving each project to rediscover it. container/skills/ is baked to /opt/triple-c-skills and installed into ~/.claude/skills/ by entrypoint.sh from VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED, mirroring how Mission Control installs its own. Staged under /opt because ~/.claude is a volume mount that would mask an image copy from first start. Three details that are not incidental: - The variable is sent as 0 rather than omitted when off, because ~/.claude persists: entrypoint has to be *told* to remove a skill left by an earlier run with the toggle on, and an absent variable cannot say that. A stale skill is worse than none, since it instructs an agent to use a capability the container no longer has. - It is reserved in RESERVED_ENV_EXACT alongside MISSION_CONTROL_ENABLED, or a custom env var of the same name could claim the skill without the capability behind it. Covered by a test. - The skill is re-copied on every start, rm -rf'd first, so fixes reach existing projects and files dropped from a later version do not linger. The skill itself carries the three things that are easy to get wrong: that a full tunnel captures the Docker resolver and takes DNS down with it, that an IP-literal health check cannot see a dead resolver, and that no tunnel survives a restart while /run state riding the snapshot makes it look as though one did. It also states what it deliberately does not do — no killswitch, no autostart — so an agent proposes those as decisions rather than improvising them. pia-wg.sh preflights CAP_NET_ADMIN by capability bit rather than letting the first `ip` call fail with a bare EPERM that points nowhere near the setting that needs changing. Credentials stay in a file (~/pia-creds, PIA_CREDS to override) rather than the environment, where docker inspect and every process in the container would see them. Tested: install/refresh/remove/no-op paths of install_feature_skill against the real function; preflight with and without the capability; and a full up --full / down round trip, confirming DNS via PIA's resolvers, api.anthropic.com reachable through the exit, and routes and resolv.conf restored on teardown. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -488,6 +488,13 @@ redirected, and no tunnel is configured or started on your behalf. Enabling it a
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container's traffic to start leaving through a VPN is the most common misreading of what it does —
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configuring a tunnel and routing traffic into it remains yours to do.
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To make that second half easier, enabling this also installs a **`pia-vpn` skill** into the
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container's `~/.claude/skills/`, so Claude Code can bring up a Private Internet Access tunnel over
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WireGuard for you — ask it to connect the VPN and it will. The skill carries the parts that are
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easy to get wrong (see the DNS note below), and it is removed again when you turn the setting off.
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It needs your PIA credentials in `~/pia-creds`, two lines, username then password. If you use a
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different provider, ignore it and set up your own client; nothing else depends on it.
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With the setting **off**, a client such as PIA or OpenVPN installs and its daemon starts normally,
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but the connection attempt **hangs until it times out** — a default container has no tun device to open
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and no permission to add an interface or a route, and most clients report that as a generic timeout
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