monitor

monitor is a skill for Claude Code from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 61 tokens per session (16,763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that watches a GitHub pull request, a proposed code change for review, until its checks pass, automated feedback is handled, and it can be merged. It can repair failures, update stale branches, and pause when a decision belongs to the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor checks, fix eligible failures, work through Copilot feedback, update a stale branch, and offer the merge when the request is ready.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly checking a pull request by hand while still stopping instead of making an uncertain merge decision. It also handles issues that appear after the initial request is opened.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the monitor-pr plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor checks, fix eligible failures, work through Copilot feedback, update a stale branch, and offer the merge when the request is ready.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add cboone/agent-harness-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install monitor-pr

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install monitor-pr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 16,763 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 $0.00061 $0.16763
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.06705
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.03353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01676

Measured 3d ago against content hash b9c6a0425c53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitor 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 3d 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/monitor-pr/skills/monitor/SKILL.md · 613 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 613 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Monitor PR

Watch a pull request until it is ready to merge, fixing what can be fixed and pausing for what cannot, then offer the merge and bring the base branch and the repository's other sessions up to date once it lands.

This skill starts where pr stops. It is not a passive observer: it repairs failing checks, syncs a stale branch, and drives Copilot feedback to resolution. It is also not a continue-at-all-costs skill. When a decision is genuinely the user's, it stops and asks.

Options

The user may provide these options inline:

  • <pr-number>: Monitor a specific PR instead of the current branch's PR (e.g., /monitor-pr:monitor 361)
  • --interval <duration>: Override adaptive pacing with a fixed wait (e.g., --interval 10m)
  • --ticks <n|unlimited>: Limit foreground polling, including scheduler fallbacks, to n ticks before producing a resumable checkpoint. The default is 3; unlimited keeps the foreground turn active until a terminal condition or escalation
  • --rounds <n|unlimited>: Change the Copilot round budget from its default of 10. --rounds unlimited commits to running until the PR is genuinely clean, however many rounds that takes, and never pauses to ask for more
  • --triage-after <n|never>: From Copilot round n + 1, defer Medium and Low findings to follow-up issues instead of fixing them, per step 7c. The default is 5; never lets every finding block
  • --confirm-clean: Require two consecutive clean Copilot reviews rather than one. After the first clean review, request another explicitly and wait for it
  • --no-fix: Observe and report only. Never push, never invoke a fixing skill, never request a review, and never merge or act on a merge

Ready Criteria

The repair loop ends when all four axes are clean at the same time, and step 8 takes over. Partial greenness is not readiness.

Read the full file on GitHub · 613 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. 3d ago First seen · 613 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b9c6a0425c53

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monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 16,763 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-13.

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