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.
npx skills add firstbatchxyz/watchmen --skill setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firstbatchxyz/watchmenWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/firstbatchxyz/watchmen/setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/firstbatchxyz/watchmen/setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/firstbatchxyz/watchmen/setup/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/firstbatchxyz/watchmen/setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/firstbatchxyz/watchmen/setup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00059 | $0.01096 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00438 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00219 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00110 |
Grade C, and why
setup scanned grade C with 2 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 1mo 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.
Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain
curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.
- **`uv: MISSING`** → stop and tell the user to install uv first (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`, or `brew install uv`), then re-run this skill. uv is the only hard prerequisite besides a provider cred Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
- **`uv: MISSING`** → stop and tell the user to install uv first (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`, or `brew install uv`), then re-run this skill. uv is the only hard prerequisite besides a provider cred How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Set up watchmen
You are guiding the user through installing and wiring watchmen on this machine. watchmen is a local CLI that turns past coding-agent sessions into a curated skills library and surfaces it back into new sessions. This skill is a thin orchestrator: you run the non-interactive shell steps yourself, and for the steps that are interactive (the init wizard) or that only the agent UI can do (plugin install), you give the user the exact commands and wait.
Do not touch the user's API keys or credentials directly — the init wizard handles provider auth. Never paste a key on the user's behalf.
Before you start
Check what's already here so you don't redo work:
!uname -s; command -v uv >/dev/null && echo "uv: $(uv --version)" || echo "uv: MISSING"; command -v watchmen >/dev/null && echo "watchmen: $(watchmen --version 2>/dev/null)" || echo "watchmen: not installed"
Read that output and branch:
uv: MISSING→ stop and tell the user to install uv first (curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh, orbrew install uv), then re-run this skill. uv is the only hard prerequisite besides a provider credential.- watchmen already installed → skip to step 3 (verify) and only fix what
doctorflags. Don't reinstall over a working setup. - Fresh machine → walk steps 1 → 4 in order.
1. Install the CLI
watchmen installs as an editable uv tool from a clone, so git pull + the daemon pick up updates:
git clone https://github.com/firstbatchxyz/watchmen.git
cd watchmen
uv sync && uv tool install --editable .
Run these for the user (pick a sensible parent dir, or ask where they want the clone). If the clone already exists, cd into it and just run the uv sync && uv tool install --editable . line.
2. Run the init wizard (interactive — hand off)
watchmen init is an interactive wizard: it asks which LLM provider to use (OpenRouter / OpenAI / Anthropic, or an OAuth subscription on macOS), prompts for that provider's API key, ingests ~/.claude/projects/ history, lets the user pick projects, previews cost, runs analyze + curate, and installs the daemon + viewer for autostart.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 87 lines · 59 tokens per session scan C ed043e62d0c2
setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository firstbatchxyz/watchmen (296 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,096 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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