watch

A command that displays the current state and recent progress of a background command-line worker session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor sessions started with cli-dispatch, including Codex, DeepSeek, Antigravity, OpenCode, or Copilot workers.
Why use it?
It lets you check whether a session is still running or finished without reading its full transcript.

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/rbinar/cli-dispatch/watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rbinar/cli-dispatch
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 462 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 $0.00029 $0.00462
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash 90b8f8b10095, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watch 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 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.

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.

plugins/cli-dispatch/commands/watch.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Watch cli-dispatch session: $ARGUMENTS

Show the compact status of the given session. Cost-conscious rule: only the small status.json (+ the last ~15 lines of progress.log) is read — the raw transcript.jsonl is NEVER read, and it is not tailed repeatedly in a tight loop. When monitoring a background run, call this ONCE per orchestration step.

SID="$ARGUMENTS"
if [ -z "$SID" ]; then
  echo "usage: /cli-dispatch:watch <session-id>"
  echo "tip:   /cli-dispatch:sessions  to list session ids"
  exit 1
fi
ROOT="${CLI_DISPATCH_SESSIONS_DIR:-${CLAUDE_DS_SESSIONS_DIR:-}}"; [ -n "$ROOT" ] || { _c="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}"; ROOT="$_c/cli-dispatch/sessions"; [ -d "$ROOT" ] || [ ! -d "$_c/claude-ds/sessions" ] || ROOT="$_c/claude-ds/sessions"; }
DIR="$ROOT/$SID"
if [ ! -d "$DIR" ]; then
  echo "no such session: $SID  (use /cli-dispatch:sessions to list them)"
else
  echo "=== status.json ==="
  cat "$DIR/status.json"
  echo ""
  echo "=== progress.log (last 15 lines) ==="
  tail -n 15 "$DIR/progress.log" 2>/dev/null || echo "(no progress)"
fi
  • state: running means the task is ongoing → check again later (not continuously).
  • state: done → look at finalResultPreview; the full output is in transcript.jsonl (if needed).
  • Continue the session: /cli-dispatch:resume <id> <follow-up> (auto-detects backend).
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 · 37 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 90b8f8b10095

Subscribe to this mod's changes

watch is a command published in the GitHub repository rbinar/cli-dispatch (5 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 462 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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.