observations

observations is a skill for Claude Code from kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo. It costs 30 tokens per session (424 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that lists recent session observations recorded by Captain Memo, such as summaries of earlier coding-agent sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to display a chosen number of recent observations, including their time, type, title, session, and prompt number.
Why use it?
It provides a quick view of what was logged previously, without requiring the user to inspect the session history manually.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the captain-memo plugin — 6 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to display a chosen number of recent observations, including their time, type, title, session, and prompt number.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo/observations
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 kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo --skill observations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install captain-memo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 hooks.

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 observations

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo/observations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo/observations/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for observations

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 424 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 $0.00030 $0.00424
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00170
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4e29ab116108, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observations 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 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.

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.

plugin/skills/observations/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Captain Memo — recent observations

When the user invokes this skill, they want a quick view of recent session observations — the structured "voyage logs" the summarizer writes from a session's tool events.

What to do

  1. Parse the user's argument as --limit N (default 20). If they typed /captain-memo:observations 50, treat 50 as the limit.
  2. Run:
captain-memo observation list --limit <LIMIT>

The CLI sends the worker's secret for you: there is no token to handle. If captain-memo is not on PATH, use the shim and checkout fallbacks described in the doctor skill. With no CLI at all (a plugin-only install), call the MCP tool search_observations with a query instead; it has no plain "recent" listing.

  1. Pass the output back as it is. It is one line per observation, newest first, then a row count.

Output format

Recent observations
---
2026-05-07T14:32:10  [bugfix    ]  Fix off-by-one in pagination loop
2026-05-07T14:18:44  [feature   ]  Add retry to the embed call on HTTP 429
(2 rows)

The timestamp is UTC. For a hit worth reading in full, search_observations or search_all returns its doc_id and get_full opens it.

If empty

Say something like:

"No observations yet. Tool events are summarised shortly after each turn, so an empty list usually means no session has run since installing, or no summarizer is live — captain-memo stats shows which one is live, captain-memo doctor says why it is not."

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 Changed 4e29ab116108
  2. 23d ago Changed · -2 lines · -4 tokens per session 3cc6f7df480e
  3. 1mo ago Changed 6069cd5a7718
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A b563984fbeba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observations is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalinbogatzevski/captain-memo (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 424 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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