Confirming that Pi can definitely handles this. I've written a harness "factotum" based on pi just for managing my homelab and my radio club's systems. Has absolutely no issue sshing into things remotely, running ansible/helm/kubectl/talosctl commands.

There's a few skills, a and an extension to switch inventory. The extension is only needed because I want to switch between the two organizations. It's pretty slick. One of my use cases was just getting my homelab under control. So one of the first tasks I gave it was to go find everything that's running on these hosts, system services, docker compose, kube pods, etc. Builds an inventory, memory, todos.

Switches the script from "ai helps me launch more experiments to lose track of" to "organized and back under config management".

  .pi/factotum/
  ├── active-profile
  ├── profiles
  │   ├── club
  │   │   ├── config.yaml
  │   │   ├── inventory
  │   │   │   └── hosts.yaml
  │   │   └── todos
  │   │       ├── 22a094a3.md
  │   │       ├── 427ad844.md
  │   │       ├── 4c185be7.md
  │   │       ├── 4d0eea0f.md
  │   │       └── bcf069a4.md
  │   ├── examples
  │   │   ├── config.yaml
  │   │   └── inventory
  │   │       └── hosts.yaml
  │   └── local
  │       ├── config.yaml
  │       ├── inventory
  │       │   └── hosts.yaml
  │       ├── memories
  │       │   ├── axel-services.md
  │       │   ├── fran-mydiffuser.md
  │       │   ├── fran-services.md
  │       │   ├── ruffclus-cluster.md
  │       │   └── ruffclus-paperless-ngx.md
  │       └── todos
  │           ├── 0f7fd63e.md
  │           ├── 75c82ceb.md
  │           ├── 9cb63594.md
  │           ├── af33e08f.md
  │           ├── ba490542.md
  │           ├── c09c144f.md
  │           ├── c5f7f8a8.md
  │           └── d4c4b287.md
  ├── schemas
  │   ├── PROJECT_ARCHITECTURE.md
  │   └── project-architecture.yaml
  ├── task-templates
  │   └── host-audit.yaml
  └── tools
      └── host_audit_runner.sh

Most if not every agent has access to bash or similar, which ssh typically is available. You don't need any bloated skills or anything, as long as you include `host is available via [email protected]` or whatever, and you have authentication properly setup, it'll figure it out.

so, to be clear, is it just doing random bash commands to runn ssh or is it a actual tool, eg, node-ssh command interface.

i would not trust bash execution of SSH because it can easily hallucinate local commands instead of remote.