claude-session-observe

claude-session-observe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielwpz/pokoclaw. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for examining Claude Code session history stored in local files and comparing it with the current project state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Recovering session context, reviewing transcripts, checking delegated work, and verifying changes in a repository.
Why use it?
It helps determine what sessions existed, what work was attempted, and whether a task was completed, interrupted, or left for follow-up.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Recovering session context, reviewing transcripts, checking delegated work, and verifying changes in a repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielwpz/pokoclaw/claude-session-observe
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 danielwpz/pokoclaw --skill claude-session-observe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielwpz/pokoclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,585 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01585
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00792
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00317
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00159

Measured 11d ago against content hash 15b4c161ceed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-session-observe 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/find_project_sessions.py, scripts/read_session_records.py), 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.

skills/claude-session-observe/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Session Observe

Use this skill to inspect Claude Code's local session artifacts under ~/.claude.

The goal of this skill is not to teach you to trust a magic script. The goal is to teach you how to:

  • find which Claude Code sessions exist for a project
  • inspect what happened in a session
  • understand what a session was doing from transcript evidence
  • check whether work was completed, interrupted, delegated, or still needs follow-up
  • compare the session story with the current repo state when the user wants to continue or verify work

Core principle

There are three layers here:

  1. Artifacts
    • ~/.claude transcript and sidecar files
    • current repo/worktree state for the recovered cwd
  2. Query helpers
    • optional scripts under scripts/
    • ordinary file reads, ls, grep, tail-style inspection
  3. Your judgment
    • "what sessions exist"
    • "what this session was doing"
    • "what was completed"
    • "what should happen next"

The scripts are only layer 2. They are read-only retrieval helpers, similar to ls, tail, or select ... from ... limit .... You decide the final answer.

If the scripts do not exist, you should still be able to use this skill. The real contract of this skill is the investigation workflow.

Channels

  • Active session map: ~/.claude/sessions/*.json
  • Project session transcripts: ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-project>/<session-id>.jsonl
  • Session sidecar directory: ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-project>/<session-id>/
  • Subagent transcripts: subagents/*.jsonl
  • Subagent metadata: subagents/*.meta.json
  • Tool output captures: tool-results/*.txt
  • Global history: ~/.claude/history.jsonl
  • Current repo/worktree for the recovered cwd

Choose channels based on the question. Do not force every question through the same path.

Required first reads

  • If the task is about ~/.claude layout, path encoding, or where files live:
    • read references/layout-overview.md
  • If the task is about finding which session to inspect:
    • read references/session-discovery-recipes.md
  • If the task is about how to read transcript JSONL records:
    • read references/transcript-records.md
  • If the task is about interpreting recent work or takeover / continuation:
    • read references/activity-heuristics.md
    • then read references/continuation-handoff.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 11d ago First seen · 179 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 15b4c161ceed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-session-observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielwpz/pokoclaw (141 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,585 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 2026-08-30.

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