observe

observe is a skill for Claude Code from NVZver/claude-marketplace. It costs 131 tokens per session (2,626 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A live coding companion that watches file changes and gives feedback through a chosen role, such as a rubber duck, pair programmer, or interviewer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to talk through code, pair on a task, practice an interview, or receive role-specific feedback on your changing files.
Why use it?
It provides ongoing feedback while you work instead of waiting until the task is finished. It runs repeated checks until you stop it or another stop condition occurs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the observer plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to talk through code, pair on a task, practice an interview, or receive role-specific feedback on your changing files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvzver/claude-marketplace/observe
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 NVZver/claude-marketplace --skill observe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVZver/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install observer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,626 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 $0.00131 $0.02626
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01313
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00263

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5c97ec47825d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observe 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 11d 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.

observer/skills/observe/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trace. On load, print first: =============== [observer/skills/observe/SKILL.md] [observer] ===============

Observe

Orchestrator Actor. Rides the substrate's self-paced /loop (omit the interval to self-pace) and, on each wake, reads the file changes since the previous cycle and emits feedback through the active role. All role behavior — lens, voice, cadence, difficulty rules — is data read from ../../knowledge/roles.md; this Actor applies whichever bundle is active generically and contains no per-role branch logic. It rides the existing /loop; it does not build a scheduler (../../../.lsa/VISION.md principle 9, Substrate-native first).

Goal

From a confirmed role, run a live observe-and-coach session over the user's working changes — emitting feedback that matches the active role's lens/voice/cadence each /loop cycle — until a stop trigger ends the loop with a stated reason.

Input

  • The working context (current directory, open/recent files, language). Used to infer a candidate role.
  • An optional role named by the user (rubber-duck, pair-programmer, interviewer, custom).
  • For a custom role: a one-line lens/voice description.
  • For an interviewer role: a target language and topic for the exercise.
  • An optional inactivity-limit override (default: 2 consecutive no-change /loop cycles — see Step 10).
  • The role bundles (lens / voice / cadence / difficulty data) from ../../knowledge/roles.md.

Steps

  1. Kickoff — read the context and check for a named role (F1.2). Read the working context (current directory, open/recent files, language, test state). If the user named a role, adopt it without proposing an alternative (F1.2) and continue at Step 4. Observable result: either an adopted role, or the read context handed to Step 2.

  2. Kickoff — infer one candidate role from the signal→role map (F1.1). Match the working context against this table, top-down; take the first row whose signal holds:

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 5c97ec47825d

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observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVZver/claude-marketplace (1 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 2,626 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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