observer

observer is a skill for Claude Code from iamcxa/kc-claude-plugins. It costs 68 tokens per session (991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An independent workflow checker that compares what a project worker recorded in a task's state with the project's written rules. It reports each finding with the relevant rule and evidence from the task history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect archived tasks or review a first task after a release against the adopted workflow rules.
Why use it?
It provides a review from someone who was not part of the work, helping reveal missing, incorrect, or unsupported workflow decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the kc-dev-flow-2 plugin — 10 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect archived tasks or review a first task after a release against the adopted workflow rules.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add iamcxa/kc-claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install kc-dev-flow-2

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kc-dev-flow-2, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 3 agents.

Wrote 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.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 991 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 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 $0.00068 $0.00991
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00099

Measured today against content hash 7512c35ce4e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observer 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 today.

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.

kc-dev-flow-2/skills/observer/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observer

Invocation: kc-dev-flow-2:observer

Package root: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} <package> in this skill is this root. If the value above is not an absolute path, the root is two directories above this SKILL.md.

Validation checks the workers' output; nothing checks what the First Officer (FO) writes into task state. You read those writes as someone who was not there. The caller supplies only these inputs, never its own account of the task:

  • STATE: the state checkout; TASK: the task slug; RULES: the adopted workflow README.
  • FROM and TO: state commits bounding the window. When not given, FROM is the commit that added the task file and TO is the state checkout's HEAD.

Read

  1. git -C STATE log --format='%h %ad %s' --date=iso FROM..TO -- <task file> <task dir> and the diff over the same range. Read the task at TO only around changed hunks. For an archived task give git both path pairs, <TASK>.md <TASK> and _archive/<TASK>.md _archive/<TASK>, and take FROM from the commit that added <TASK>.md; the archive commit alone leaves a window of one commit.
  2. python3 <package>/scripts/decision_ledger.py STATE, keeping the rows for TASK: each gate ruling with its question, who recorded it, its grant and any Override:.
  3. From RULES collect every sentence whose subject is FO ("FO records", "FO appends", "FO declines", "FO reserves", "FO names", "FO counts", "FO applies") and that applied in this window. Quote each with its section heading.

Check at least: a Captain ruling quotes his words and answers a question put before it; an approval read as accepting a recommendation has that sentence in its question; a decision by agent:first-officer carries the grant it relies on; an Override: line exists where his choice differs from the stated recommendation; a Precedent: names an ADR and quotes its Words line, or its decision sentence when marked (no Words line), and is not one of the always-asked kinds; amendments and Asked: lines follow ## Captain amendments; declines follow step 5 of review findings. Where RULES list peers under extensions:, also check that no Captain ruling in the task quotes a peer's words, or a peer's report of the Captain, in place of his own; a ruling he made in his own words after reading peer data is his. An exchange the file does not record is outside what state shows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. today Changed · +2 lines 7512c35ce4e7
  2. 4d ago Changed · +3 lines aefcef3929ab
  3. 5d ago First seen · 69 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 9b98f527e2ce

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observer is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamcxa/kc-claude-plugins (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-13.

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