watchers

watchers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johnson7788/MultiUserClaw. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,144 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of watchers, MIT.

Small scripts that repeatedly check RSS feeds, JSON web APIs, or GitHub activity for new items. A watermark records what has already been seen, so repeated checks produce only changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to watch news feeds, GitHub issues, pull requests, releases, and commits, or any JSON endpoint where you need notifications about new data.
Why use it?
It avoids manually checking the same sources and prevents the same item from being reported repeatedly. It can run on a schedule or when started from the terminal.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Good fit Use it to watch news feeds, GitHub issues, pull requests, releases, and commits, or any JSON endpoint where you need notifications about new data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/watchers
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 johnson7788/MultiUserClaw --skill watchers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnson7788/MultiUserClaw

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.

agentmods badge for watchers

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/watchers.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/watchers)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/watchers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/watchers.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,144 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00017 $0.01144
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00572
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00114

Measured 8d ago against content hash 29c01df1882d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watchers 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/_watermark.py, scripts/watch_github.py, scripts/watch_http_json.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to watchers — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/devops/watchers/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Watchers

Poll external sources on an interval and react only to new items. Three ready-made scripts plus a shared watermark helper; wire them into a cron job (or run them ad-hoc from the terminal).

When to Use

  • User wants to watch an RSS/Atom feed and be notified of new entries
  • User wants to watch a GitHub repo's issues / pulls / releases / commits
  • User wants to poll an arbitrary JSON endpoint and get notified on new items
  • User asks for "a watcher for X" or "notify me when X changes"

Mental model

A watcher is just a script that:

  1. Fetches data from the external source
  2. Compares against a watermark file of previously-seen IDs
  3. Writes the new watermark back
  4. Prints new items to stdout (or nothing on no-change)

The scripts below handle all three. The agent runs them via the terminal tool — from a cron job, a webhook, or an interactive chat — and reports what's new.

Ready-made scripts

All three live in $HERMES_HOME/skills/devops/watchers/scripts/ once the skill is installed. Each reads WATCHER_STATE_DIR (defaults to $HERMES_HOME/watcher-state/) for its state file, keyed by the --name argument.

Script What it watches Dedup key
watch_rss.py RSS 2.0 or Atom feed URL <guid> / <id>
watch_http_json.py Any JSON endpoint returning a list of objects Configurable id field
watch_github.py GitHub issues / pulls / releases / commits for a repo id / sha

All three:

  • First run records a baseline — never replays existing feed
  • Watermark is a bounded ID set (max 500) to cap memory
  • Output format: ## <title>\n<url>\n\n<optional body> per item
  • Empty stdout on no-new — the caller treats that as silent
  • Non-zero exit on fetch errors

Usage

Run a watcher directly from the terminal tool:

python $HERMES_HOME/skills/devops/watchers/scripts/watch_rss.py \
  --name hn --url https://news.ycombinator.com/rss --max 5

Watch a GitHub repo (set GITHUB_TOKEN in ${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes}/.env to avoid the 60 req/hr anonymous rate limit):

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 113 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 29c01df1882d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

watchers is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnson7788/MultiUserClaw (317 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,144 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to watchers, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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