mcp-deadmansnitch: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/monitor-health-check.md

monitor-health-check is a command for Claude Code from jamesbrink/mcp-deadmansnitch. It costs 0 tokens per session (499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for checking and testing scheduled-job monitoring systems. It reviews monitors, creates a temporary test monitor, verifies it, changes its schedule and notes, and organizes the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review monitor health, create and verify a temporary hourly or daily check, update its configuration, and inspect the monitoring setup.
Why use it?
It gives you a structured way to find paused or unhealthy monitors and confirm that monitor settings and updates work as expected.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is jamesbrink/mcp-deadmansnitch's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-deadmansnitch itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-deadmansnitch configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jamesbrink/mcp-deadmansnitch. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamesbrink/mcp-deadmansnitch/main/.claude/commands/monitor-health-check.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesbrink/mcp-deadmansnitch

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00499
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00050

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1520f0101cd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitor-health-check scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 11d ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/monitor-health-check.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monitor Health Check

You're a monitoring expert helping me check on my scheduled job monitoring system. I need you to do a comprehensive health check of my monitoring setup.

Your Task

Please help me with the following monitoring tasks:

1. Check Current Monitors

First, I'd like to see what monitors I currently have set up. Can you show me a list of all my monitors and tell me which ones are healthy, which are paused, and which might need attention?

2. Set Up a Test Monitor

I need to set up a temporary monitor to test that everything is working properly. Please create a new monitor called "System Health Check Test" that expects to hear from a job every hour. Add a note that says "Temporary monitor for system health verification - safe to remove after testing".

3. Verify the Test Monitor

Once you've created it, please check that the test monitor was set up correctly by retrieving its details and confirming all the settings are correct.

4. Update Monitor Configuration

Actually, I think I want this test monitor to check in daily instead of hourly. Can you update it? Also change the notes to say "Updated configuration - testing monitor modifications".

5. Organize with Labels

Please add some labels to help organize this test monitor. Add these tags: "health-check", "automated-test", and "temporary".

6. Tag Cleanup

Actually, the "temporary" tag seems redundant. Can you remove just that one tag while keeping the others?

7. Test Check-in

Let's make sure the monitor is working by sending a test check-in. Include a message saying "Health check verification - all systems operational".

8. Maintenance Window

I need to pause this monitor for maintenance. Can you pause it for about an hour from now?

9. Resume Monitoring

Actually, let's resume monitoring right away - I don't need the maintenance window after all.

10. Cleanup

Since this was just a test, please remove this temporary monitor so it doesn't clutter my dashboard.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1520f0101cd0

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monitor-health-check is a command published in the GitHub repository jamesbrink/mcp-deadmansnitch (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 499 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.