watchdog

watchdog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 26 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system-health checker that reviews disk space, memory, CPU load, running services, processes, logs, and network access. It also includes commands for watching specific processes and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect system health, find resource-heavy processes, check service status, review recent errors, and test connectivity.
Why use it?
It brings common server and workstation checks into one place when something is slow, unavailable, or failing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to inspect system health, find resource-heavy processes, check service status, review recent errors, and test connectivity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jansenanalytics/claudex/watchdog
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 JansenAnalytics/claudex --skill watchdog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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.
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 $0.00026 $0.00379
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash a96372e1c5a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watchdog 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 5d 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 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://api.telegram.org
skills/watchdog/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

System Health Watchdog

Quick Health Check

# Disk usage
df -h / /home | tail -2

# Memory
free -h

# CPU load
uptime

# Running services
systemctl --user list-units --state=running --no-pager | head -20

# Check specific services
systemctl --user status openclaw-poe-gateway openclaw-argus-gateway 2>&1 | grep -E "●|Active:"

# Large files
dust -n 10 $HOME

# Network connectivity
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://api.telegram.org

Process Monitoring

# Check if a process is running
pgrep -fa "PROCESS_NAME"

# Top CPU consumers
ps aux --sort=-%cpu | head -10

# Top memory consumers
ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -10

Log Checking

# Recent system errors
journalctl --user --since "1 hour ago" --priority err --no-pager | tail -20

# Check specific log
tail -50 /path/to/logfile | grep -i "error\|fail\|crash"

Key Services to Monitor

  • openclaw main gateway (systemd)
  • openclaw-poe-gateway (systemd user)
  • openclaw-argus-gateway (systemd user)
  • Claude Code session (this instance)
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. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A a96372e1c5a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

watchdog is a skill published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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