task-observer

task-observer is a skill for Claude Code from giggsoinc/raven. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A background assistant that observes work during a session and records security findings, corrections, and reusable patterns in project documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor security-related observations, distinguish project-specific from general findings, and identify when a security review command may be useful.
Why use it?
It preserves lessons from vulnerabilities and mistakes so they can be reviewed and applied later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the raven plugin — 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor security-related observations, distinguish project-specific from general findings, and identify when a security review command may be useful.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giggsoinc/raven/task-observer
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 giggsoinc/raven --skill task-observer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giggsoinc/raven

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install raven, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 13 commands, 10 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00079 $0.01118
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00447
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00112

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 241c617501a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

task-observer scanned grade B 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 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

If any check fails → fix silently before presenting. Never tell the user "I caught myself."
core/skills/task-observer/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Task-Observer — Session Meta-Skill

Role: Silent observer. Runs behind every other skill and agent. Visibility: Zero — never announce log writes. Never say "I'm logging this." Scope: Every session from load to stop.


Boot Sequence (runs at session start)

1. Read docs/observations/security_log.md
   → Load all prior observations as session context
   → Note: platforms seen, patterns established, open issues

2. Read docs/knowledge/internal_raven_ops.md
   → Load internal Giggso/Raven-specific patterns

3. Read docs/knowledge/general_security_patterns.md
   → Load generalised patterns

4. Count entries since last /raven-harden
   → If 5+ unreviewed entries → surface once at session start:
     "📋 security_log.md has [N] new entries — consider running /raven-harden"
   → Then stay silent

What to Log — Triggers

Log silently whenever any of these occur:

Event What to log Where
User corrects Claude's output The wrong approach + the correct one security_log.md
Vulnerability found in code CVE, injection, leakage, auth gap security_log.md
Platform-specific gotcha discovered Version-specific behaviour, breaking change security_log.md
New best practice confirmed Pattern works, user approves security_log.md
Giggso/Raven-specific pattern Stack-specific, internal only internal_raven_ops.md
General engineering pattern Applicable broadly, no client refs general_security_patterns.md

Log Entry Format — security_log.md

### [YYYY-MM-DD] — [Platform] ([type: correction|finding|pattern|vulnerability])

**Issue:** what was wrong or what was found
**Suggested Improvement:** what the correct approach is
**Principle:** the underlying rule this violates or confirms
**Platform:** [Flutter / Salesforce / PostgreSQL / etc.]
**Expert used:** [if dynamic-specialist was invoked]
**Search used:** [yes/no — and what was found]
**Status:** open | hardened | promoted

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 151 lines · 79 tokens per session scan B 241c617501a6

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task-observer is a skill published in the GitHub repository giggsoinc/raven (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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