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.claude/skills/inspect-ai-room/SKILL.md

inspect-ai-room is a skill for Claude Code from cardstack/boxel. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,444 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to inspecting an AI assistant room through the Matrix messaging API. Matrix is a system for exchanging messages and room state; the guide can inspect timelines, token use, costs, models, modes, and enabled skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine local, staging, or production rooms, review tool requests and results, and check per-turn usage or room configuration.
Why use it?
An assistant session can be hard to understand from its visible replies alone. Inspecting its events and state shows what happened during each turn and how much it used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is cardstack/boxel's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on boxel itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything boxel configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cardstack/boxel. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cardstack/boxel/main/.claude/skills/inspect-ai-room/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cardstack/boxel

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,444 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.
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 5.1 $0.00095 $0.01444
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00578
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00144

Measured 5d ago against content hash bb2fc61bf792, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inspect-ai-room 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/inspect-room.mjs), 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.

.claude/skills/inspect-ai-room/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inspect an AI assistant room

All inspection goes through the Matrix client API. Locally the script logs in as aibot (password pass), which is a member of every assistant room. The consolidated script:

node scripts/inspect-room.mjs rooms [N]           # N most recent rooms, newest first
node scripts/inspect-room.mjs timeline <roomId>   # decoded event timeline
node scripts/inspect-room.mjs usage <roomId>      # per-turn tokens/cost + session total
node scripts/inspect-room.mjs state <roomId>      # LLM model, act/ask mode, skills
node scripts/inspect-room.mjs raw <roomId> [str]  # full event JSON, filtered by substring

(paths relative to this skill's base directory)

Staging / production rooms

The aibot password for deployed environments is not readable by the boxel-claude-readonly AWS role (checked; ssm:GetParameter on BOXEL_AIBOT_PASSWORD is denied by design). Instead the script reuses the Matrix token that boxel-cli stores in ~/.boxel-cli/profiles.json:

node scripts/inspect-room.mjs --profile staging timeline '!abc:stack.cards'
node scripts/inspect-room.mjs --profile staging usage    '!abc:stack.cards'
node scripts/inspect-room.mjs --profile @me:stack.cards rooms 10

--profile takes a profile id or a substring of its matrixUrl (staging, boxel.ai). A substring that matches more than one profile is rejected; pass the exact id then. Every subcommand works; rooms lists the profile user's rooms, not all rooms. Room ids on staging end in :stack.cards; quote them in the shell because of the !.

Limits: the profile's user must be a member of the room (the user who ran the session — that is the normal case when the user tests on staging with the same account boxel-cli is logged in as). If the token was revoked, boxel profile add re-authenticates. MATRIX_URL + MATRIX_TOKEN env vars are the raw fallback for a token from elsewhere (e.g. copied from the browser's auth localStorage entry).

Analysis procedure for a "this session is full of errors" report

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 115 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A bb2fc61bf792

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inspect-ai-room is a skill published in the GitHub repository cardstack/boxel (27 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,444 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-21.

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