c9watch-cli

c9watch-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from minchenlee/c9watch. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,320 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for monitoring and managing Claude Code sessions, which are active coding-agent workspaces. It reports session activity as JSON, a structured data format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list active sessions, filter them by project or status, search past work, inspect pending actions, review spending, or coordinate sibling agents.
Why use it?
It gives you one place to see what other agents are doing, find previous session work, track costs, and coordinate or stop sessions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/minchenlee/c9watch/c9watch-cli
Any agent
npx skills add minchenlee/c9watch --skill c9watch-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minchenlee/c9watch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for c9watch-cli

README.md
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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,320 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00119 $0.01320
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00132

Measured 4d ago against content hash 84ea4b923056, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

c9watch-cli scanned grade C with 2 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 4d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minchenlee/c9watch/main/install-cli.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minchenlee/c9watch/main/install-cli.sh | bash
skills/c9watch-cli/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

c9watch CLI

c9watch is a CLI tool that lets you monitor and manage all Claude Code sessions running on the machine. Every command outputs JSON. Use it to see what other sessions are doing, search past work, track costs, and coordinate with sibling agents.

Before you start

Verify c9watch is available:

which c9watch && c9watch --version

If not installed, tell the user:

c9watch CLI is not installed. Install it with:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minchenlee/c9watch/main/install-cli.sh | bash

Commands reference

List active sessions

c9watch list                                    # all sessions
c9watch list --compact                          # minimal fields (saves tokens)
c9watch list --project myapp                    # filter by project path
c9watch list --status NeedsAttention            # filter by status

Status values: Working, WaitingForInput, NeedsAttention, Idle

Compact output fields: id, pid, status, projectPath, sessionName, pendingToolName

Full output adds: firstPrompt, messageCount, modified, customTitle, gitBranch, summary, latestMessage, pendingToolInput, taskProgress

Status overview

c9watch status                                  # counts by status and project
c9watch status --project myapp                  # filtered

Returns total, byStatus, byProject, and needsPermission (sessions waiting for approval). This is the fastest way to answer "is anything stuck?" — check needsPermission first.

Identify yourself

c9watch self

Walks the PID tree to find the calling Claude Code process and returns your own session object. Use this to discover your own session ID, project path, git branch, or task progress without the user telling you.

View a conversation

c9watch view <session-id>                       # full conversation
c9watch view <session-id> --last 5              # last 5 messages (saves tokens)

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 4d ago First seen · 141 lines · 119 tokens per session scan C 84ea4b923056

Subscribe to this mod's changes

c9watch-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository minchenlee/c9watch (127 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,320 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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