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Debugs an existing challenge by starting it, inspecting tasks, troubleshooting over SSH, fixing source files, and restarting. Use when a challenge's tasks are failing or hanging.

Gets detailed status and output of a specific examiner task on a playground. Use to debug why a task is failing.

Lists all examiner tasks (init and regular) for a playground. Use to check the status of challenge/tutorial tasks.

Executes a command on a playground VM via SSH. Use when you need to run commands on a playground for testing, debugging, or verification.

Applies a scripted solution to a running challenge (single- or multi-VM) and verifies every non-helper task completes. Use to validate a .solution.sh / .solution-NN.sh end-to-end.

Starts a challenge playground session. Use when you need to launch a challenge for testing or solving.

Stops the current solution attempt for a challenge. Use when you need to stop a running challenge.

Terminates (destroys) a running playground session. Use when you need to shut down a playground.

Vets a community-author-submitted challenge for malicious content and sanity, then prepares and validates a scripted .solution.sh. Use when asked to review/vet a third-party challenge submission.

Creates a new piece of content (challenge, tutorial, course, skill-path) on the remote server and scaffolds local source files.

Finds the local folder for a given content kind and name. Use before pulling or pushing content to determine the correct local directory.

Pushes local content edits to the remote server. Supports pushing the entire directory or only specific changed files. Use after editing local content files to sync changes to the server.

Lists available playgrounds from the catalog. Use when you need to find which predefined playgrounds exist (e.g., ubuntu-24-04, docker, k3s) for assigning to content.

Lists remote content of a given kind from the iximiuz Labs server. Use when you need to discover existing content, find the remote name of a piece of content, or check if something already exists.

Lists recent playground sessions. Use to find running playground IDs or check playground status.

Pulls remote content source files to the local project directory. Use when you need to fetch or update local copies of content from the server.

Pushes local content source files to the remote server. Use when you need to publish content changes.

Opens an interactive SSH session to a running playground VM. Use when you need hands-on access to a playground.

Starts a new playground session and returns its ID. Use when you need to spin up a sandbox environment for testing or debugging.