progress-channel

A local progress-tracking service that keeps live jobs in memory and records duration history for long-running work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor sweeps, downloads, background commands, and external queues with status and estimated completion times.
Why use it?
It makes background and externally handled tasks visible in one place, including whether they are active or stalled.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add alexmond/alexmskills
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/alexmond/alexmskills/progress-channel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmond/alexmskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

progress-channel 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.

plugins/progress-channel/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 21 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "progress-channel",
  "description": "One visible channel for every long-running process — local sweeps, backgrounded commands, and work handed to external systems. The server that serves the live progress page IS the tracker: a tiny stdlib Python daemon holds live jobs in memory (auto-spawned by the first producer, single writer, no store locking), persists only the duration history to an append-only JSONL, and derives liveness — orphans by checking producer pids directly, stalls from each job's own learned cadence — with learned ETAs and pre-start forecasts.",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Alex Mondshain",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://www.alexmond.org/alexmskills/",
  "repository": "https://github.com/alexmond/alexmskills",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "progress",
    "jobs",
    "eta",
    "monitoring",
    "long-running",
    "daemon"
  ]
}
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 · 21 lines scan A b6c58d81c1aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

progress-channel is a plugin published in the GitHub repository alexmond/alexmskills (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.