Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-marketnpx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/install-watchdogWrote 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/athola/claude-night-market/install-watchdog)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/athola/claude-night-market/install-watchdog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/athola/claude-night-market/install-watchdog/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/athola/claude-night-market/install-watchdog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/athola/claude-night-market/install-watchdog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium
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 →
- medium Rogue Agent · line 54 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 55 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 107 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 118 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00043 | $0.00841 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00420 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00168 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
install-watchdog scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Install Watchdog
Overview
Installs a persistent daemon that monitors the egregore process and relaunches it when needed. The daemon uses the OS-native scheduler (launchd on macOS, systemd on Linux) to run a watchdog script every 5 minutes.
The watchdog script checks:
- Whether an egregore session is already running.
- Whether the budget is in cooldown.
- Whether there are active work items in the manifest.
If all conditions are met, it launches a new egregore session.
When To Use
- After initializing an egregore project (
egregore init) when you want autonomous relaunching. - When setting up egregore on a new machine.
When NOT To Use
- On CI/CD runners (use the orchestrator directly).
- When you want manual control over session launches.
Installation Steps
1. Detect the operating system
OS=$(uname -s)
2. Run the appropriate installer
macOS (launchd):
bash plugins/egregore/scripts/install_launchd.sh
This script creates a plist at
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.egregore.watchdog.plist
that runs the watchdog script every 300 seconds (5 minutes).
Linux (systemd):
bash plugins/egregore/scripts/install_systemd.sh
This script creates a systemd timer and service unit at
~/.config/systemd/user/ that fires every 5 minutes.
3. Verify installation
macOS:
launchctl list | grep egregore
Expected output: a line containing
com.egregore.watchdog with a PID or - status.
Linux:
systemctl --user status egregore-watchdog.timer
Expected output: active (waiting) status.
4. Confirm to the user
Report the installation result, the schedule interval, and the log file location:
- macOS:
~/.egregore/watchdog.log - Linux:
journalctl --user -u egregore-watchdog
Uninstall Command
To remove the watchdog, run:
Skill(egregore:uninstall-watchdog)
Or invoke the uninstall skill directly via the command
/egregore:uninstall-watchdog.
Troubleshooting
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 129 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 62addb644867
install-watchdog is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 841 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 2026-09-03.
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