dual-channel-watchexec

dual-channel-watchexec is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,483 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A setup for sending file-change and process-crash alerts through both Telegram and Pushover when watchexec detects an event. Watchexec is a tool that watches files and restarts commands when they change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor scripts or services, report restarts and crashes, and format alerts correctly for Telegram and Pushover.
Why use it?
It provides two notification channels so important development or monitoring events are less likely to be missed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the devops-tools plugin — 24 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it to monitor scripts or services, report restarts and crashes, and format alerts correctly for Telegram and Pushover.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/dual-channel-watchexec
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill dual-channel-watchexec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,483 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 165
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 76
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 79
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 83
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00035 $0.01483
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00148

Measured 12d ago against content hash b2715fb83798, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dual-channel-watchexec scanned grade B with 2 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (examples/bot-wrapper.sh, examples/notify-restart.sh, examples/setup-example.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -s -d "chat_id=$CHAT_ID" \

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -d "chat_id=$CHAT_ID" \
plugins/devops-tools/skills/dual-channel-watchexec/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dual-Channel Watchexec Notifications

Send reliable notifications to both Telegram and Pushover when watchexec detects file changes or process crashes.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Setting up file change monitoring with notifications
  • Implementing process crash alerting via Telegram and Pushover
  • Creating watchexec wrappers with dual-channel notification support
  • Formatting messages for both HTML (Telegram) and plain text (Pushover)
  • Troubleshooting notification delivery or formatting issues

Core Pattern

watchexec wrapper scriptdetect eventnotify-scriptTelegram + Pushover

# wrapper.sh - Monitors process and detects restart reasons
watchexec --restart -- python bot.py

# On event, call:
notify-script.sh <reason> <exit_code> <watchexec_info_file> <crash_context>

Critical Rule: Format Differences

Telegram: HTML mode ONLY

MESSAGE="<b>Alert</b>: <code>file.py</code>"
# Escape 3 chars: & → &amp;, < → &lt;, > → &gt;

Pushover: Plain text ONLY

/usr/bin/env bash << 'SKILL_SCRIPT_EOF'
# Strip HTML tags before sending
MESSAGE_PLAIN=$(echo "$MESSAGE_HTML" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g')
SKILL_SCRIPT_EOF

Why HTML for Telegram:

  • Markdown requires escaping 40+ chars (., -, _, etc.)
  • HTML only requires escaping 3 chars (&, <, >)
  • Industry best practice

Quick Reference

Send to Both Channels

/usr/bin/env bash << 'SKILL_SCRIPT_EOF_2'
# 1. Build HTML message for Telegram
MESSAGE_HTML="<b>File</b>: <code>handler_classes.py</code>"

# 2. Strip HTML for Pushover
MESSAGE_PLAIN=$(echo "$MESSAGE_HTML" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g')

# 3. Send to Telegram with HTML
curl -s -d "chat_id=$CHAT_ID" \
  -d "text=$MESSAGE_HTML" \
  -d "parse_mode=HTML" \
  https://api.telegram.org/bot$BOT_TOKEN/sendMessage

# 4. Send to Pushover with plain text
curl -s --form-string "message=$MESSAGE_PLAIN" \
  https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json
SKILL_SCRIPT_EOF_2

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 12d ago First seen · 168 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B b2715fb83798

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dual-channel-watchexec is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,483 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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