trudi-start-watcher

trudi-start-watcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nebulae/trudi. It costs 30 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A TRUDI workflow for starting or checking live monitoring producers for a security case. It can manage signed CEF log ingestion and endpoint watchers while preserving existing traces and investigations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps start CEF ingestion or endpoint monitoring, reuse an already-running producer, resolve the correct endpoint client, and continue an open investigation.
Why use it?
It avoids duplicate producers and checks the case's configuration, sender, client, and baseline before monitoring begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It helps start CEF ingestion or endpoint monitoring, reuse an already-running producer, resolve the correct endpoint client, and continue an open investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nebulae/trudi/trudi-start-watcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nebulae/trudi --skill trudi-start-watcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nebulae/trudi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 380 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 $0.00380
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1d45c7ef3a2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trudi-start-watcher 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 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.

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.

codex/skills/trudi-start-watcher/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Resolve the explicitly named case, otherwise use the current case directory's CLAUDE.md. Use the shared active_case file only if neither identifies a case. Read that case's instructions and monitoring/config.json. Use actual trudi-sift MCP tools; the dotted names here describe their namespaces.

Initialize the case execution log through misc.start_execution_log only if none is active. Preserve existing traces. If an investigation is open, resume it with monitor.start_investigation rather than redirecting its trace.

Call monitor.list_watchers. Reuse an already-running producer for the case; do not stop it merely to make the setup command succeed.

For a case with cef_ingest configuration, start monitor.start_cef_ingest if it isn't running. Confirm its configured signed sender, source-client binding, and decoy endpoint. Raw UDP is collection-only. A pure external-detection case such as WINDECOY-DEMO does not need another host-detector subscription. Its response source still needs an existing baseline for the current client.

For a host-detector case, resolve the current client using velo.list_clients, preferring the most recent matching hostname. Reuse its baseline. Capture a missing baseline only when the host is known clean; never absorb current attack artifacts to satisfy a setup prerequisite. Start monitor.start_watcher with the case's intended detectors; surface every returned warning.

Confirm the producer is alive and report its client ID, PID, signing posture, and dashboard URL. Do not start an attack, acknowledge alerts, or weaken response policy. Use $trudi-watch-alerts when the operator wants the analyst loop running; obey an explicit exercise hold.

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 · 34 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 1d45c7ef3a2a

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trudi-start-watcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository nebulae/trudi (67 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 380 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 2026-10-31.

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