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.
npx skills add Abilityai/cornelius --skill manage-watching-domainsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/corneliusWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/manage-watching-domains)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/manage-watching-domains"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/cornelius/manage-watching-domains/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/cornelius/manage-watching-domains"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/cornelius/manage-watching-domains.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Rogue Agent · line 419 Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 15 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 16 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 422 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00040 | $0.03446 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.01723 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00689 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00345 |
Grade A, and why
manage-watching-domains 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 424 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Manage Watching Domains
Human-in-the-loop manager for the domain-watch surveillance layer. Handles the full lifecycle: seeding new domains for continuous monitoring, reviewing scan status and signal level, activating Watch Log proposals into thinking topics, pausing domains, and updating intelligence requirements.
Companion skills:
.claude/skills/domain-watch/SKILL.md— the autonomous scanning engine (runs daily, perceives and proposes).claude/skills/manage-thinking-topics/SKILL.md— manages the thinking topics that watching domains feed into
Architecture: domain-watch perceives → manage-watching-domains activates → incubation-loop analyses
State Dependencies
| Source | Location | Read | Write | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watching Registry | Brain/05-Meta/Watching/WATCHING-REGISTRY.md |
✓ | ✓ | Master list of domains + scan status |
| Domain Configs | Brain/05-Meta/Watching/[domain-slug].md |
✓ | ✓ | Per-domain PIRs, queries, baseline counts |
| Watch Log | Brain/05-Meta/Watching/WATCH-LOG.md |
✓ | ✓ | Proposals awaiting activation |
| Thinking Registry | Brain/05-Meta/Thinking/THINKING-REGISTRY.md |
✓ | ✓ | Destination when activating proposals |
| Thinking Files | Brain/05-Meta/Thinking/[topic-slug].md |
✓ | Created during activation |
Modes
Invoke with one of five modes. If no mode is provided, default to review.
Mode: review
Purpose: Full status dashboard — what domains are active, when they last scanned, what signal level they found, and what proposals are sitting in the Watch Log awaiting your decision.
Step 1: Read Registry and Date
date '+%Y-%m-%d'
Read Brain/05-Meta/Watching/WATCHING-REGISTRY.md. Parse all domains.
Step 2: Load Domain Summaries
For each domain, read Brain/05-Meta/Watching/[domain-slug].md. Extract:
label- human-readable namemode- surveillance or hypothesislast_scan- date of last scan (null = never scanned)notes_at_scan- baseline note countspawn_threshold- delta needed to trigger proposalpriority_intelligence_requirements- list of PIRs (count them)watch_queries- list of search terms (count them)
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 424 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A c01ece2d1589
manage-watching-domains is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (107 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,446 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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