output-services-check

output-services-check is a skill for Claude Code from growthxai/output. It costs 44 tokens per session (853 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A health-check guide for Output SDK development services, which are local programs needed to run Output workflows. It checks Docker containers, the API server, and the Temporal server interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting debugging, running workflow commands, or seeing connection-refused and timeout errors in an Output SDK project.
Why use it?
It helps identify whether connection errors or timeouts come from stopped development services. This prevents debugging workflow code when the supporting environment is unavailable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the outputai plugin — 50 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting debugging, running workflow commands, or seeing connection-refused and timeout errors in an Output SDK project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/growthxai/output/output-services-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add growthxai/output --skill output-services-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/growthxai/output

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install outputai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 853 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 58
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 68
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 73
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 74
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 90
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 115
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00044 $0.00853
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00085

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8a2170be7c7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

output-services-check scanned grade A 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s http://localhost:3001/health
coding_assistants/claude/plugins/outputai/skills/output-services-check/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Output Services Health Check

Overview

This skill verifies that all required Output SDK development services are running and healthy. The Output SDK requires three services for local development: Docker containers, the API server, and the Temporal server with its UI.

When to Use This Skill

  • Starting a debugging session
  • Encountering connection refused errors (ECONNREFUSED)
  • Workflows failing to start or connect
  • Timeout errors when running workflows
  • Before running any workflow commands
  • When the development environment seems unresponsive

Instructions

Step 1: Check Docker Containers

docker ps | grep output

Expected: You should see containers related to output running. If no containers appear, Docker may not be running or the services haven't been started.

Step 2: Check API Server Health

curl -s http://localhost:3001/health

Expected: Returns a health status response. If this fails with "Connection refused", the API server is not running.

Step 3: Check Temporal UI Accessibility

curl -s http://localhost:8080 > /dev/null && echo "Temporal UI accessible" || echo "Temporal UI not accessible"

Expected: "Temporal UI accessible". If not accessible, Temporal server may not be running.

Remediation Steps

If Docker is not running:

  1. Start Docker Desktop (macOS/Windows) or the Docker daemon (Linux)
  2. Wait for Docker to fully initialize
  3. Re-run the checks

If services are not running:

# Start all development services
npx output dev

Wait 30-60 seconds for all services to initialize, then re-run the checks.

If only some services are down:

# `output dev` reconciles a partially-up stack itself — it runs `up -d` for the
# missing containers, then attaches to monitor. Prefer it over raw compose so
# the project name and compose file match what the CLI uses.
npx output dev

To stop everything first and start clean:

npx output dev down
npx output dev

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 10d ago First seen · 136 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 8a2170be7c7b

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output-services-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository growthxai/output (435 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 853 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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