gaia-steward-observe

gaia-steward-observe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree. It costs 92 tokens per session (637 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A repository-observation workflow that runs every registered Gaia Steward detector and reports what each one found without changing the repository. It separates things actively observed from things not observed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a repository, see what Steward detects, and begin a full Steward run.
Why use it?
It provides a read-only first pass for finding maintenance debt, so inspection does not accidentally modify the project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to scan a repository, see what Steward detects, and begin a full Steward run.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree/gaia-steward-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 gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree --skill gaia-steward-observe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 637 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 unknown 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 $0.00092 $0.00637
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00255
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00064

Measured 4d ago against content hash e3e074e601bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gaia-steward-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 4d 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.

.agents/skills/gaia-steward-observe/SKILL.md · 77 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 77 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A e3e074e601bc

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gaia-steward-observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree (23 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 637 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-22.

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