watchers

watchers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sairam0424/MindForge. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,074 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of watchers, MIT.

Scripts that repeatedly check RSS feeds, JSON APIs, or GitHub and report only items they have not seen before. RSS is a feed format for updates, and a watermark is saved state used to remember earlier items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Watching feeds, API endpoints, or GitHub issues, pull requests, releases, and commits on a schedule or on demand.
Why use it?
They prevent repeated reports of the same updates while allowing the agent to notice new entries, changes, or GitHub activity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Watching feeds, API endpoints, or GitHub issues, pull requests, releases, and commits on a schedule or on demand.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sairam0424/mindforge/devops-watchers
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 sairam0424/MindForge --skill devops-watchers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sairam0424/MindForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sairam0424/mindforge/devops-watchers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sairam0424/mindforge/devops-watchers.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,074 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00017 $0.01074
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00107

Measured 6d ago against content hash ec34acb6b585, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

watchers 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to watchers — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agent/skills/devops-watchers/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Watchers

Poll external sources on an interval and react only to new items. Three ready-made scripts plus a shared watermark helper; wire them into a cron job (or run them ad-hoc from the terminal).

When to Use

  • User wants to watch an RSS/Atom feed and be notified of new entries
  • User wants to watch a GitHub repo's issues / pulls / releases / commits
  • User wants to poll an arbitrary JSON endpoint and get notified on new items
  • User asks for "a watcher for X" or "notify me when X changes"

Mental model

A watcher is just a script that:

  1. Fetches data from the external source
  2. Compares against a watermark file of previously-seen IDs
  3. Writes the new watermark back
  4. Prints new items to stdout (or nothing on no-change)

The scripts below handle all three. The agent runs them via the terminal tool — from a cron job, a webhook, or an interactive chat — and reports what's new.

Ready-made scripts

All three live in $HERMES_HOME/skills/devops/watchers/scripts/ once the skill is installed. Each reads WATCHER_STATE_DIR (defaults to $HERMES_HOME/watcher-state/) for its state file, keyed by the --name argument.

Script What it watches Dedup key
watch_rss.py RSS 2.0 or Atom feed URL <guid> / <id>
watch_http_json.py Any JSON endpoint returning a list of objects Configurable id field
watch_github.py GitHub issues / pulls / releases / commits for a repo id / sha

All three:

  • First run records a baseline — never replays existing feed
  • Watermark is a bounded ID set (max 500) to cap memory
  • Output format: ## <title>\n<url>\n\n<optional body> per item
  • Empty stdout on no-new — the caller treats that as silent
  • Non-zero exit on fetch errors

Usage

Run a watcher directly from the terminal tool:

python $HERMES_HOME/skills/devops/watchers/scripts/watch_rss.py \
  --name hn --url https://news.ycombinator.com/rss --max 5

Watch a GitHub repo (set GITHUB_TOKEN in ${HERMES_HOME:-~/.hermes}/.env to avoid the 60 req/hr anonymous rate limit):

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 6d ago First seen · 104 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A ec34acb6b585

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watchers is a skill published in the GitHub repository sairam0424/MindForge (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,074 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to watchers, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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