scope-watch

scope-watch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from t1djani/servo. It costs 45 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking implementation work against the original purpose and boundaries of an issue while the work is still underway. It looks for scope drift, meaning the change quietly grows beyond what was requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during a multi-step implementation, especially when many files or systems are involved. It compares each meaningful step with the issue or specification, including what is explicitly out of scope.
Why use it?
Agents can lose sight of the original goal as implementation details accumulate and start solving adjacent problems. Early checks make it easier to stop and correct that drift before review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the servo plugin — 9 skills, 1 command shipped together

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/t1djani/servo/scope-watch
Any agent
npx skills add t1djani/servo --skill scope-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/t1djani/servo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install servo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 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 $0.00045 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 589e8ccc8f92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scope-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 5d 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.

skills/scope-watch/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

scope-watch

Hold the work to its intent while it is being built, not after. A human implementer keeps the goal in their head for hours; an agent loses it as the context fills with implementation detail and starts solving adjacent problems it was never asked to. This skill catches that drift in flight.

What drift looks like

  • Building something the issue did not ask for ("while I'm here, I'll also…").
  • Quietly widening the change beyond the plan's scope.
  • Solving a harder, more interesting problem than the one assigned.
  • Touching files or systems the scope did not name.

Procedure

  1. Anchor on the scope oracle. From the manifest, read the scope source for this work (the issue / the spec's scope section). That is the intent: what this work is, and what it is not.

  2. Diff at each meaningful step. As you implement, periodically compare the work in progress against that intent. Cheap question: does this change still serve the stated scope, or did it grow a second purpose?

  3. On suspected drift, stop the line. This is the andon cord: stopping is cheap and expected; pushing through a scope smell is the failure. Surface the drift — "this step is adding X, which is outside the issue's scope" — and decide explicitly: is X in scope (update the scope oracle deliberately) or out (drop it)?

  4. Never widen scope silently. If the work genuinely needs more than the issue covers, that is a decision for the human (CEO/client), not a default the agent takes mid-implementation.

Rule

An agent that pushes through a scope smell to "be helpful" is the exact failure this skill exists to stop. Stopping to check is the cheap, correct move.

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. 5d ago First seen · 30 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 589e8ccc8f92

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scope-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository t1djani/servo (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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