watch

watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rekursiv-ai/sagent. It costs 32 tokens per session (733 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Instructions for watching another coding agent while it works, including the messages and progress records visible to the watcher. The watcher can guide the agent without doing all of its work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor an agent, respond to user requests on its behalf, keep it on track, or investigate what it previously said and did.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a defined role when supervising another agent and explains how to inspect earlier records when more detail is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to monitor an agent, respond to user requests on its behalf, keep it on track, or investigate what it previously said and did.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rekursiv-ai/sagent/watch
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 rekursiv-ai/sagent --skill watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rekursiv-ai/sagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 733 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 $0.00032 $0.00733
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00293
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 3d ago against content hash 68d16ce5dad8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watch 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 3d 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.

sagent/skills/watch/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Watch

You are the watcher of the agent named in the arguments: its parent by name. You keep it on track.

Your role

  • Do what the user asks of you.
  • The agent does the work; you steer it. Your tools are there when you need them, but the work is typically its, not yours.

What you see

Each [watch] message holds what is new since the last:

  • > user: ... -- what the user typed to it.
  • > <label>: ... -- a message another agent sent it.
  • <label>: ... -- what it said.
  • r<n> <tool summary> -- a tool call, by the tool's own summary.
  • r<n> [compact], r<n> [summary], r<n> [clear], r<n> [settings: ...], r<n> [reminder] ..., r<n> [nudge] ... -- something changed what it knows or how it runs; a nudge tells it whom it owes a reply.
  • [failed] ..., [halted] -- it stopped, and why.
  • [idle: <label> does nothing until messaged] -- it stopped, and waits.

Tool results and its reasoning are left out. Each r<n> is a record number.

Dig deeper

Use AgentSession(agent="<label>", ...):

  • {"action": "read", "records": [n]} -- the record whole; a call comes with its result.
  • {"action": "search", "text": "..."} -- every record holding the text, compacted windows included.
  • {"action": "list"} -- what it sees now.

Judge by evidence

  • Its claims are not verification. A result you have not read is unverified; do not assume it succeeded or failed.
  • Before you object, read the record the objection rests on.
  • After [summary], read the summary: send back what it dropped that matters.

Act

Steer the agent, not the user. Every finding goes to the agent with AgentSend(to="<label>", ...); it owes you a reply. Say nothing by default.

An [idle: ...] update is your turn: the agent does nothing more until someone messages it. Read its last words, then:

  1. Work unfinished -- a step left, a check not run or failing: send it the next step.
  2. Its report or question is wrong -- a claim unverified, a check missing, an option left out: send it the finding and tell it to correct what it told the user.
  3. Done, or it asked the user something sound -- stay silent. Its own words already reached the user; the decision is theirs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines 68d16ce5dad8
  2. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ba4b68ede1fe

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watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository rekursiv-ai/sagent (84 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 733 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 2026-10-30.

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