watch

Hydra Watch

You are executing the /hydra:watch command. Live monitoring of all background agents with real-time status updates.

Purpose

Monitor multiple background agents running in parallel:

• Poll agent output files for current status
• Display live table with agent progress
• Detect blocked/completed/waiting states
• Offer actions: resume, check output, kill

Process

1. Find Running Agents

# Get project path for task directory
PROJECT_PATH=$(pwd | sed 's|/|\\-|g' | sed 's|^\\-||')
TASK_DIR="/tmp/claude/${PROJECT_PATH}/tasks"

# List all agent output files
ls -la "$TASK_DIR"/*.output 2>/dev/null || echo "No agents found"

2. Parse Agent Status

For each .output file, extract the current status:

for f in "$TASK_DIR"/*.output; do
  AGENT_ID=$(basename "$f" .output)

  # Get last meaningful lines (skip empty lines)
  LAST_ACTION=$(tail -50 "$f" | grep -v '^$' | tail -5)

  # Detect status
  if echo "$LAST_ACTION" | grep -qi "completed\|finished\|done"; then
    STATUS="completed"
  elif echo "$LAST_ACTION" | grep -qi "blocked\|denied\|permission"; then
    STATUS="blocked"
  elif echo "$LAST_ACTION" | grep -qi "waiting\|user input\|confirmation"; then
    STATUS="waiting"
  else
    STATUS="running"
  fi

  echo "$AGENT_ID|$STATUS|$LAST_ACTION"
done

3. Display Status Table

Format output as a clear table:

Hydra Watch - Live Agent Monitor
================================

  Agent   | Status    | Current Action
  --------|-----------|------------------------------------------
  a81dddd | running   | Optimizing Playwright config...
  abc3593 | running   | Running tests...
  adb39f1 | blocked   | git commit blocked by DOGMA-PERMISSIONS
  af848c1 | completed | All tasks finished
  ac49e7c | waiting   | Waiting for user confirmation

Last updated: 00:42:15 | Polling every 5s

4. Detect Problems

Check for common blockers:

# DOGMA-PERMISSIONS blocks
grep -l "DOGMA-PERMISSIONS\|git commit.*blocked\|git push.*blocked" "$TASK_DIR"/*.output 2>/dev/null

# Permission denied
grep -l "permission denied\|BLOCKED by" "$TASK_DIR"/*.output 2>/dev/null

# Waiting for input
grep -l "waiting for\|user input\|confirmation" "$TASK_DIR"/*.output 2>/dev/null