docker-watch-mode-2025

docker-watch-mode-2025 is a skill for Claude Code from JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace. It costs 156 tokens per session (692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Docker Compose Watch, which automatically syncs changed files or rebuilds containers during local development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure hot reload for Node, Python, Go, or Rust apps, choose sync or rebuild actions, add ignore rules, and verify changes with docker compose up --watch.
Why use it?
It removes repeated manual container restarts when source code, dependencies, or configuration files change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is path: ./frontend/src.

Part of the azure-to-docker-master plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure hot reload for Node, Python, Go, or Rust apps, choose sync or rebuild actions, add ignore rules, and verify changes with docker compose up --watch.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/josiahsiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace/docker-watch-mode-2025

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-to-docker-master, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 692 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 $0.00156 $0.00692
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00346
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00069

Measured 13d ago against content hash 591ef56fbf0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docker-watch-mode-2025 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 13d 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.

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.

plugins/azure-to-docker-master/skills/docker-watch-mode-2025/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

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Docker Compose Watch Mode (2025 GA)

Docker Compose Watch enables automatic hot reload during local development by synchronizing file changes instantly without manual container restarts.

Three Watch Actions

1. sync - Hot Reload

For frameworks with hot reload (React, Next.js, Node.js, Flask). Copies changed files directly into running container.

2. rebuild - Compilation

For compiled languages (Go, Rust, Java) or dependency changes. Rebuilds image and recreates container when files change.

3. sync+restart - Config Changes

For configuration files requiring restart. Syncs files and restarts container.

Core Procedure

  1. Confirm the app already starts with docker compose up before adding watch rules.
  2. Prefer sync for source directories when the runtime already reloads files.
  3. Use rebuild for dependency manifests, Dockerfiles, compiled artifacts, or base-image changes.
  4. Use sync+restart for configuration files that are read only at process startup.
  5. Add narrow ignore rules for dependency folders, build outputs, VCS folders, caches, secrets, and generated files.
  6. Run docker compose up --watch and verify both fast source edits and dependency changes.

Usage

services:
  frontend:
    build: ./frontend
    develop:
      watch:
        - action: sync
          path: ./frontend/src
          target: /app/src
          ignore: [node_modules/, .git/, dist/]
        - action: rebuild
          path: ./frontend/package.json

Start with: docker compose up --watch.

Troubleshooting Checklist

  • Change not detected: verify the watched path is relative to the Compose file and not excluded by ignore.
  • Hot reload not firing: confirm the application inside the container has its own watcher enabled.
  • Container restarts too often: split source sync from manifest rebuild rules.
  • File ownership issues: prefer named volumes for dependency directories and sync only application code.
  • Slow sync: narrow watched paths and exclude build outputs or large generated folders.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 13d ago First seen · 71 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 591ef56fbf0d

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docker-watch-mode-2025 is a skill published in the GitHub repository JosiahSiegel/claude-plugin-marketplace (54 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 692 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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