bobbycode: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/bobby-watchdog/SKILL.md

watchdog-check is a skill for Claude Code from ccevans/bobbycode. It costs 55 tokens per session (992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A post-deployment checker that tests whether a live website still loads, responds to API requests, and reports browser errors after a release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for production smoke tests, checking selected pages, and verifying the parts of an application affected by a deployment.
Why use it?
It catches broken pages, failed requests, and JavaScript errors soon after deployment, before users or support teams find them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

This is ccevans/bobbycode's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on bobbycode 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 bobbycode configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ccevans/bobbycode. 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/ccevans/bobbycode/main/.claude/skills/bobby-watchdog/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccevans/bobbycode

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 992 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00992
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 5d ago against content hash aa53ac76e4fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watchdog-check scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- [ ] Health endpoint responds: `curl -s {production_url}/api/health`
.claude/skills/bobby-watchdog/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bobby Watchdog Skill

Post-deploy verification. Checks that production pages load, APIs respond, and no new console errors appear after deployment.

Before Starting

  1. Check learnings — Read .claude/skills/bobby-watchdog/learnings.md + .claude/skills/bobby-watchdog/learnings.local.md
  2. Read .bobbyrc.yml for production config:
    • production_url — base URL for production
    • watchdog_pages — list of paths to check (default: ["/"])

Watchdog Check Process

Step 1: Determine What to Check

Check these pages (in order):

  1. Pages listed in watchdog_pages config
  2. If no config: homepage (/), login page, main dashboard
  3. Any pages specifically affected by the most recent deployment

Step 2: Health Checks

For each page, verify via browser automation:

Page Load:

  • HTTP status is 200 (or expected redirect)
  • Page renders within 5 seconds
  • No blank/white page (check that main content container exists)
  • Title tag is present and not "Error" or "500"

Console Errors:

  • No JavaScript errors in console
  • No failed network requests (4xx/5xx) except expected ones
  • No unhandled promise rejections

Visual Verification:

  • Screenshot each page for the record
  • Key UI elements are present (navigation, main content, footer)
  • No "loading" spinners stuck indefinitely

API Health (if applicable):

  • Health endpoint responds: curl -s {production_url}/api/health
  • Key API endpoints return expected status codes

Step 3: Compare to Pre-Deploy State

If previous watchdog results exist (.bobby/watchdog/last-run.json):

  • Compare screenshot diffs for unexpected visual changes
  • Compare console error counts (new errors = regression)
  • Compare response times (>50% slower = regression)

Step 4: Record Results

Save to .bobby/watchdog/run-{YYYYMMDD-HHmmss}.json:

{
  "timestamp": "ISO date",
  "production_url": "https://...",
  "pages": [
    {
      "path": "/",
      "status": 200,
      "load_time_ms": 850,
      "console_errors": 0,
      "failed_requests": 0,
      "screenshot": "watchdog/screenshots/home-{timestamp}.png",
      "passed": true
    }
  ],
  "overall": "passed"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 128 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A aa53ac76e4fc

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watchdog-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository ccevans/bobbycode (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 992 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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