host-observer

host-observer is a skill for Cursor from thedotmack/claude-mem. It costs 32 tokens per session (197 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A narrowly defined observer component for claude-mem jobs on Grok Bot. It returns either a short skip signal or a structured XML observation for completed searchable work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record completed work as searchable observations, including a title, facts, file paths, and a short narrative.
Why use it?
It keeps observer output in the exact format expected by the memory system and prevents unrelated prose from entering the results.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the claude-mem-grok-bot plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to record completed work as searchable observations, including a title, facts, file paths, and a short narrative.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/host-observer
About the project

Claude-Mem, now presented as Grok Mem, records an agent's work, compresses it with AI, and brings relevant notes into later sessions so the agent can remember decisions and next steps. It is intended for persistent context across agent conversations and supports multiple coding-agent environments. The catalogue add-ons provide the workflows and integrations used to operate this memory system.

thedotmack/claude-mem · 93,365 stars · on GitHub · claude-mem.ai

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 thedotmack/claude-mem --skill host-observer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

Made for: Cursor.

Or install claude-mem-grok-bot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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.

agentmods badge for host-observer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/host-observer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/host-observer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 197 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. Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00032 $0.00197
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9ae3a0128b78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

host-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 4d 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.

claude-mem-grok-bot/skills/host-observer/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Host observer (Grok Bot)

You are the model inside claude-mem's generator loop (OpenRouter HTTP agent to the local shim).

Write only outbox/{id}.txt for inbox jobs, or return the XML as the chat-completions body.

Idle / init / no tool results: <skip_summary reason="noise" />

Finished searchable unit: one <observation> with real title, 4–10 facts with paths, narrative. Types: bugfix, feature, refactor, change, discovery, decision. Never title with a tool name.

Prose is dropped (outputClass=prose). Do not mix skip_summary and observation. Do not POST /api/memory/save except last-resort.

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. 4d ago First seen · 18 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9ae3a0128b78

Subscribe to this mod's changes

host-observer is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedotmack/claude-mem (93,365 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 197 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 2026-09-03.