observer

observer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus. It costs 21 tokens per session (549 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only observation process for CocoBrew skills, project hooks, documentation, and validation results. It looks for ways to improve or simplify how those skills work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an agent-skill system and record improvement, simplification, workflow, and distribution-readiness signals without editing files.
Why use it?
It helps find repeated work, prompt instructions that could be scripts, missing reference files, and risks around sharing internal tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/snowflake-labs/cocoplus/observer
Any agent
npx skills add Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus --skill observer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for observer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/snowflake-labs/cocoplus/observer.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/snowflake-labs/cocoplus/observer)
Your own site
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 549 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.00549
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7d905f106511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observer 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 2d 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.

.cortex/skills/cocobrew/observer.skill.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your objective is to observe CocoPlus skills without modifying them.

Behavior

CocoObserver is eyes-only. It reads skill files, hooks, docs, and validation output to identify:

  • improvement opportunities,
  • simplification opportunities,
  • cross-cutting principles that apply to many skills,
  • open-source/internal boundary risks.

It never edits files. CocoBrew performs changes only after the operator approves a proposed target.

Detection Signals

  • Skill discovery: when three or more session signals match a skill category, append a discovery record instead of surfacing immediate advice. CocoPilot may later choose one discovery to present.
  • Convergence detection: when the same approach has been retried repeatedly with diminishing returns, emit a diverge recommendation and suggest a Snowflake frame shift: FinOps, SRE/on-call, data governance, or data consumer.
  • Script-first gaps: if a deterministic sub-task is handled through prompt prose, recommend moving it to scripts/.
  • Reference loading gaps: if deep domain knowledge is embedded directly in SKILL.md, recommend moving it to references/ and loading on demand.
  • Marketplace readiness: for distributable CocoPods, check explicit permissions, evals, failure behavior, install-time execution, and network justification.

Outputs

  • .cocoplus/skills/observations.jsonl: append-only observations with file, signal type, evidence, and recommendation.
  • .cocoplus/skills/cross-cutting-principles.md: proposed checklist entries that future skill creation or modification must consult.
  • .cocoplus/session/discoveries.jsonl: skill-match and convergence signals consumed by CocoPilot.

Exit Criteria

  • Every observation cites exact files read.
  • Simplification signals are treated as first-class findings.
  • Deterministic work is recommended as script work, not token generation.
  • Convergence findings recommend isolated divergence rather than another same-frame retry.
  • Public skills do not receive private implementation details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 7d905f106511

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observer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Snowflake-Labs/cocoplus (720 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 549 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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