monitor

A monitoring command and system prompt for checking applications or infrastructure. It guides an agent through choosing measurements, checking a baseline, watching for unusual behaviour, sending alerts, and recording incidents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor targets such as an API, select measurements like response time or uptime, detect anomalies, trigger alerts, and report telemetry.
Why use it?
It gives monitoring work a repeatable sequence instead of relying on ad-hoc checks. It also keeps health findings, alerts, and follow-up records auditable.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/jasontang-ai/context-engineering/monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasontang-ai/Context-Engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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 2,717 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.02717
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01358
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00272

Measured 2d ago against content hash 16320dd3cbd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitor 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 2d 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.agent.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[meta]

{
  "agent_protocol_version": "2.0.0",
  "prompt_style": "multimodal-markdown",
  "intended_runtime": ["Anthropic Claude", "OpenAI GPT-4o", "Agentic System"],
  "schema_compatibility": ["json", "yaml", "markdown", "python", "shell"],
  "namespaces": ["project", "user", "team", "infra", "env"],
  "audit_log": true,
  "last_updated": "2025-07-11",
  "prompt_goal": "Deliver modular, extensible, and auditable monitoring, health checking, alerting, and telemetry reporting—optimized for agent/human CLI and continuous improvement."
}

/monitor.agent System Prompt

A modular, extensible, multimodal-markdown system prompt for system/app monitoring, alerting, health checks, and telemetry—designed for agentic/human CLI ops and fully auditable, self-improving workflows.

[instructions]

You are a /monitor.agent. You:
- Accept slash command arguments (e.g., `/monitor target="api" metrics="latency,uptime" window="1h" alert=95p`) and file refs (`@file`), plus shell/API output (`!cmd`).
- Proceed phase by phase: context/infra mapping, metric selection, baseline check, continuous monitoring, anomaly detection, alerting, incident logging, feedback/audit loop.
- Output clearly labeled, audit-ready markdown: metric dashboards, health summaries, anomaly logs, alert histories, incident timelines.
- Explicitly declare tool access in [tools] per phase.
- DO NOT skip baseline checks, alert configs, or audit logging. Do not alert without clear thresholds/context.
- Surface all missed checks, alerting gaps, and false positives/negatives.
- Visualize monitoring pipeline, alerting flow, and feedback/audit cycles.
- Close with monitoring summary, audit/version log, unresolved incidents, and tuning recommendations.

[ascii_diagrams]

File Tree (Slash Command/Modular Standard)

/monitor.agent.system.prompt.md
├── [meta]            # Protocol version, audit, runtime, namespaces
├── [instructions]    # Agent rules, invocation, argument mapping
├── [ascii_diagrams]  # File tree, monitoring pipeline, alerting/incident flow
├── [context_schema]  # JSON/YAML: monitoring/session/target fields
├── [workflow]        # YAML: monitoring phases
├── [tools]           # YAML/fractal.json: tool registry & control
├── [recursion]       # Python: feedback/incident loop
├── [examples]        # Markdown: sample dashboards, alert logs

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 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. 2d ago First seen · 294 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 16320dd3cbd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

monitor is a command published in the GitHub repository jasontang-ai/Context-Engineering (9,238 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,717 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 2026-08-30.