agents-observe AGENTS.md

A live dashboard for watching Claude Code agent sessions, including the events produced while an agent works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a current session, view its statistics, check server health, or read recent logs. It runs locally with Docker and opens at port 4981.
Why use it?
It makes an agent’s activity visible and provides commands for checking, starting, stopping, restarting, and troubleshooting the dashboard server.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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 instructions/simple10/agents-observe/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simple10/agents-observe

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 835 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 835 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00835 $0.00835
Opus 5 $0.00417 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00167 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00084 $0.00084

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3b453d248f16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agents-observe AGENTS.md 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 3d 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.

AGENTS.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agents Observe

Real-time observability dashboard for Claude Code agents. Captures every hook event and streams it to a live dashboard.

Install as Plugin

claude plugin marketplace add simple10/agents-observe
claude plugin install agents-observe

Restart Claude Code. The server auto-starts as a Docker container and the dashboard is at http://localhost:4981.

Skills

Command Description
/observe view Open the current session in the dashboard
/observe stats Open the current session's stats modal
/observe Open the dashboard
/observe status Server health and config
/observe start Start the server
/observe stop Stop the server
/observe restart Restart the server
/observe logs Show recent container logs
/observe debug Diagnose server issues

Clone & Run

Requires just, Node.js, and Docker.

git clone https://github.com/simple10/agents-observe.git
cd agents-observe
just install   # install dependencies
just start     # start server via Docker

Dashboard: http://localhost:4981

For dev mode with hot reload: just dev (client at http://localhost:5174, API at http://localhost:4981).

Troubleshooting

Problem Fix
Server not running Run /observe start or restart Claude Code
Docker not running Start Docker Desktop, then /observe start
Port conflict Set AGENTS_OBSERVE_SERVER_PORT=<port> in .env
Need diagnostics Run /observe debug
Database issues Run just db-reset

Development

Before developing features or modifying code, read docs/DEVELOPMENT.md. It covers architecture, project structure, commands (just dev, just test, etc.), environment variables, worktree setup, code style, and testing.

Key points:

  • Use just dev for hot-reload development
  • Run just check before every commit — runs all tests + formatting
  • Use just commands for all dev tasks (not npm directly) — see just --list
  • Worktrees need a .env with unique ports (see DEVELOPMENT.md § Worktrees)
  • All env vars are centralized in hooks/scripts/lib/config.mjs — never read process.env elsewhere
  • TypeScript throughout, kebab-case file names

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 3d ago First seen · 93 lines · 835 tokens per session scan A 3b453d248f16

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agents-observe AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository simple10/agents-observe (664 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 835 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 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 2026-08-30.

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