watch

watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from smixs/iva-agent. It costs 176 tokens per session (3,423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A monitoring and briefing workflow that checks unread Telegram messages, email, failed checks, and failed scheduled units, then decides what needs the owner's attention. It can also explain actions such as creating a task, delaying a reminder, ignoring an item, or fixing a failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for periodic checks of messages, mail, automated checks, timers, and plugins, with a short account of what needs action now.
Why use it?
It filters routine notifications so the owner is alerted about waiting replies, deadlines, money, appointments, and other timely matters rather than every new item.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for periodic checks of messages, mail, automated checks, timers, and plugins, with a short account of what needs action now.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smixs/iva-agent/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 smixs/iva-agent --skill watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smixs/iva-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,423 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 $0.00176 $0.03423
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.01369
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00685
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00342

Measured yesterday against content hash 1dd973e11375, 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 yesterday.

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.

agent/skills/watch/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Watch — telling the owner what they missed

Code checks the owner's Telegram and mail once an hour without you and wakes you only when something new has waited long enough (or an urgent sender wrote). Your job is the judgement: is it worth the owner's attention, and what is the next step.

Shared procedure for Watch, Brief and Insight

  1. For an agreed responsibility, use the subject, available sources, notify condition and end condition. In chat, reuse the owner's details; ask one material missing detail. Save confirmed behaviour in Owner rules through write_file; facts go in Card. Existing confirmation is enough. Use current Watch/Brief turns. Every Routine firing reaches the owner; remove it only at their request.
  2. Apply Owner rules first; memory_search the subject and insight Cards before choosing. Skip declined proposals, including rewordings, unless asked again. Check CORE goals against tasks and newer Card facts. CORE goal advice needs an active CORE goal and a useful change; stop that advice when the end condition is met.
  3. When a message is warranted, prepare a short reply draft or checked choices from the material read, within existing turn bounds. Name missing facts. Keep preparation in the same message. The owner sends replies; installation and repairs follow their existing approval rules. For each substantial item, give its source and why now, such as a new reply or due date. Use a source link, or its name and date when a link is unavailable.
  4. In chat, keep a single rejection on the proposal's Card, or one factual Card with subject and date; confirm its scope in one short line. Save a topic-wide rule in Owner rules only after explicit confirmation. Keep Insight's Card fields and archive step. Silence means no known reaction; "Got it" is one event.
  5. Apply this judgement with each turn's delivery rules. Alert gets its message, morning Brief always answers, Signal and Reminder deliver.

In a Watch turn

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. yesterday Changed · +24 lines · +22 tokens per session 1dd973e11375
  2. 7d ago Changed · +65 lines · +21 tokens per session bcc0c1ab2512
  3. 10d ago First seen · 110 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A ec2e0da73227

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watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository smixs/iva-agent (240 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 3,423 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-10-06.