peek

peek is a skill for Claude Code from kellykampen/agent-skills. It costs 160 tokens per session (1,926 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local command-line status board for teams of coding agents working in a hierarchy. Each agent reports its state, and supervising agents can view the resulting tree.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report when an agent starts, gets blocked, or finishes, and to check the current status of child agents.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect terminal panes or guess which agents are active. It also keeps status data consistent without requiring a server.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 25 skills, 7 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to report when an agent starts, gets blocked, or finishes, and to check the current status of child agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kellykampen/agent-skills/peek
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 kellykampen/agent-skills --skill peek
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kellykampen/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 7 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,926 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 $0.00160 $0.01926
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00963
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00193

Measured 10d ago against content hash e4222c009eac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peek 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.

skills/agents/peek/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

peek (fleet status reporting)

peek is a tiny, local, serverless CLI that makes an agent-orchestration fleet legible: each agent reports its own status via peek update, which peek stores in a per-agent JSON file behind the scenes; anyone above it in the hierarchy can read the tree instantly (via peek) instead of capturing panes to guess what's alive. No server, no daemon — just files under ~/.peek/projects/<project-slug>/, which you never touch directly (see below).

The CLI is the only contract — never touch ~/.peek/ yourself

~/.peek/ is peek's private internal storage, not something you read, write, or inspect directly. Always go through the CLI: peek update, peek, peek --all, peek watch, peek web. Never cat/echo/hand-edit a file under ~/.peek/, and never glob it yourself to "check" something — if you need to know the current state, run peek/peek --json, not a filesystem read. This keeps the on-disk schema free to change without breaking every agent that depends on it, keeps every write atomic/valid (the CLI validates; a hand-written JSON file might not), and means you never have to know or care what the record shape actually is.

Are you set up to use it?

Setup is plain env exports, set once per session — there is no peek register command. You export your identity a single time (at spawn, or once at session start if you're the conductor); every peek update call after that is bare (just --task/--status/etc, never re-exporting anything). Reading needs no identity at allpeek, peek --all, and peek web all work with zero PEEK_* env vars set, for anyone just looking. Only writing (peek update) requires your identity to already be exported.

You need four env vars, normally set by whatever spawned you (a launcher script, an orchestrator's cast command, or your own boot sequence if you're the fleet's conductor):

Var What it is
PEEK_ID Your own unique identifier
PEEK_ROLE conductor, orchestrator, or worker
PEEK_PARENT Your parent's PEEK_ID (omit only if you're conductor)
PEEK_WORKSPACE Your project's computed slug (omit only if you're conductor — see below)

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 10d ago First seen · 129 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A e4222c009eac

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peek is a skill published in the GitHub repository kellykampen/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 1,926 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 2026-08-31.

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