brief

A workspace change report that shows what Watchmen found since its last check, such as added or changed skills and AGENTS.md instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review recent workspace changes, see when they happened, and decide whether to load a suggested skill.
Why use it?
It saves you from manually checking whether the workspace changed and highlights actions that may need attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/firstbatchxyz/watchmen/brief
Any agent
npx skills add firstbatchxyz/watchmen --skill brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firstbatchxyz/watchmen

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.00476
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00048

Measured 3d ago against content hash e5cb0261b0cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief 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.

plugin-codex/skills/brief/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Watchmen brief

You are reporting watchmen's latest findings for the user's current workspace. The user invoked you (via /skills brief or $brief) to find out what changed since the last curator run.

Current state for this workspace

The block below contains the JSON state file watchmen wrote at the end of its last curator run for this project. If it says (no state) or (not a tracked project), watchmen has nothing new to report.

!${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/read_state.sh

What to do

  1. If the state says (no state) or (not a tracked project): tell the user there's nothing new and stop. One short sentence.

  2. Otherwise, summarize in plain English what changed:

    • Which skills were added/updated/removed
    • Whether AGENTS.md changed
    • When this happened (the ts field)
    • Keep it tight — 3-5 lines max. The user will ask for detail if they want it.
  3. If suggested_skill is non-null in the state: ask the user "Want me to load the <skill> skill for this session?" and wait for a yes/no. If yes, instruct them to invoke it (/skills <name> or $<name>) — you can't load it programmatically, only signal.

  4. Include a closing link to the run's details:

    • If diff_url is non-null (schema 2+): show that — it points at the side-by-side diff for this exact run, e.g. Diff: http://127.0.0.1:8979/p/kai-agent-new/diff/<sha>
    • Else fall back to viewer_url (the project overview page)
    • One line, link only — no extra commentary.

The read_state.sh call also touches an acknowledgment file, which clears the pending-brief signal for this project. So once you've shown the user this brief, watchmen will stay quiet about this run until the next curator pass.

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 · 34 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A e5cb0261b0cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository firstbatchxyz/watchmen (295 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 476 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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