What is activitywatch:activity?

A read-only reporting tool for ActivityWatch, a local program that records which applications and windows are active and when the computer is idle.

Use it to report time spent in applications, inspect window titles, review active and idle periods, and identify patterns that may support automation.

It answers questions about actual computer use from recorded data instead of relying on memory or manually reviewing applications.

activitywatch:activity — Skill for Claude Code by bendrucker/claude

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.

Any agent

npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill activity

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install activitywatch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bendrucker/claude/activity/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bendrucker/claude/activity)

Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,008 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00070	$0.01008
Opus 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00403
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00202
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00101

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cb5331f9e2c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

activitywatch:activity 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/aw-query.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/activitywatch/skills/activity/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Activity

Report how the device was actually used, from ActivityWatch's local capture. This skill only reads. It never writes to the db.

ActivityWatch runs aw-server-rust in the background (a LaunchAgent supervises it via aw-qt). It records the focused app and window title (aw-watcher-window) and active vs idle spans (aw-watcher-afk) into a SQLite db. DuckDB attaches that db read-only, which is safe while aw-server holds its own write connection.

Database

~/Library/Application Support/activitywatch/aw-server-rust/sqlite.db

Override with AW_DB (the wrapper resolves it, since DuckDB cannot expand ~ in ATTACH). If the file is missing, ActivityWatch is not installed or has not captured yet.

Querying

Run a named query with scripts/aw-query.sh. Each query supports --recent <duration> (12h, 1d, 7d, 4w) to scope to a recent window, and -n <limit> to cap rows.

${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh top-apps
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh top-apps --recent 1d
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh window-titles --recent 7d -n 40
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh afk --recent 1d

The aggregate queries (top-apps, window-titles, afk) return durations both formatted (duration, e.g. 1h 23m) and raw (seconds) so results are readable and still sortable/summable. app-timeline lists individual focus events and returns raw seconds only.

Queries

top-apps — total focused time per app, most first. The headline "what did I use" answer.
window-titles — time per window title within each app. What you were actually doing, not just which app was open. Needs Accessibility granted to ActivityWatch.
app-timeline — focus events in reverse-chronological order (when you switched to what, for how long). Pair with --recent 1d to reconstruct a day.
afk — active (not-afk) vs idle (afk) time. How much of the window was actually at the keyboard.

Schema

Two tables in the attached aw database:

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A cb5331f9e2c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

activitywatch:activity is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,008 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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