observer

A background analyzer that starts with a session, reads stored observations, forms recurring patterns into instincts, and looks for clusters.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analyzing session observations, creating instincts from them, and detecting related groups of observations.
Why use it?
It can turn separate observations into grouped patterns, reducing the need to review them manually.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/humanplane/homunculus/observer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humanplane/homunculus
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.00788
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00079

Measured yesterday against content hash 1e3ee8994279, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

observer scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

1. Read observations: `cat .claude/homunculus/observations.jsonl`
plugins/homunculus/agents/observer.md · 110 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 110 lines · 19 tokens per session scan B 1e3ee8994279

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observer is an agent published in the GitHub repository humanplane/homunculus (387 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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