observation

Observation commands for listing, searching, and counting recorded notes about development work, such as decisions, bug fixes, features, refactors, discoveries, and changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to filter recent observations by project, session, or type, search their titles and text, and view totals.
Why use it?
They make it easier to retrieve useful details from past work instead of searching through session transcripts manually.

Command

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/mnott/pai/observation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI
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 657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00657
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5d278457a9ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observation 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to end — 71 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

docs/commands/observation.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pai observation

Observation capture: list, search, and stats

Synopsis

pai observation <subcommand> [options]

Subcommands

Command Description
pai observation list List recent observations
pai observation search <query> Search observations by title or narrative text
pai observation stats Show observation statistics: totals, by type, by project

pai observation list

List recent observations

Options

Option Description Default
--project <slug> Filter by project slug
--type <type> Filter by type (decision, bugfix, feature, refactor, discovery, change)
--session <id> Filter by session ID
--limit <n> Maximum results 20

pai observation search

Search observations by title or narrative text

Arguments

Argument Kind
<query> required

Options

Option Description Default
--project <slug> Filter by project slug
--type <type> Filter by type
--limit <n> Maximum results 20

pai observation stats

Show observation statistics: totals, by type, by project

Examples

# Recent classified tool-call observations
pai observation list

# Only this project's decisions
pai observation list --project pai --type decision

# Search observations by text
pai observation search "daemon socket"

# Totals, by type, by project
pai observation stats

See also

pai backup · pai clear-names · pai daemon · pai db · pai end · pai help · pai identity · pai kg · pai mcp · pai memory · pai notify · pai obsidian · pai pause · pai project · pai projects · pai registry · pai restore · pai session · pai sessions · pai setup · pai shell-init · pai skill · pai task · pai topic · pai update · pai zettel

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5d278457a9ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observation is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 657 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to end, differing in 71 lines, and is treated as a copy.