observe

observe is a skill for Claude Code from vasuag09/harness-claude. It costs 131 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A production-feedback triage step. You provide a stack trace, log, error message, alert, or monitoring link, and it helps identify where the failure occurs and how to reproduce it in code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an error has happened in a live application but you do not yet know which code is responsible or how to reproduce it.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear production problem into a concrete failure that the fixing process can investigate. It does not monitor systems by itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the harness-claude plugin — 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when an error has happened in a live application but you do not yet know which code is responsible or how to reproduce it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/observe
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 vasuag09/harness-claude --skill observe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasuag09/harness-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,261 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 $0.00131 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00126

Measured 9d ago against content hash a8805dd402e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observe 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 9d 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/observe/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/observe — triage the signal, locate the area, route to /fix

Goal: turn a raw production signal into something the harness can act on. The user brings the signal (the harness does not watch anything); /harness-claude:observe grounds it in real code — which component, what failure, what would reproduce it — and hands that package to /harness-claude:fix, which runs the reproduce-first discipline. This is the step that makes the pipeline a loop rather than a line: …/ship → /deploy → (prod) → /observe → /fix → ….

Opt-in. Invoked explicitly. Bring-a-signal only — no polling, no credentials, no new MCP; you paste/point at the signal. Git boundary: /harness-claude:observe is read-only — it never commits, pushes, or branches; the fix is committed (if at all) only later through /harness-claude:ship.

When /harness-claude:observe, when /harness-claude:fix

  • /harness-claude:observe is for a prod signal you don't yet know how to reproduce in code — it triages and locates, then routes. Start here when all you have is a stack trace / log / alert.
  • /harness-claude:fix is the lane itself — reproduce-as-a-failing-test-first, root-cause, minimal fix. If you already have a red test or a known repro, skip observe and go straight to fix.

How it works

parse the brought signal → locate the failing area (mgrep/graph) → shape a repro SEED → hand to /fix

Do this

  1. Parse the brought signal. From the pasted stack trace / log / error / issue URL, extract a structured failure description: the service or component, the error message or pattern, the conditions it appears under, and any data visible in the signal. No polling, no credentials, no new MCP — you work only from what was handed to you. (AC-O1)
  2. Locate the failing area in real code. Use mgrep / the knowledge graph to trace the signal to its origin — the function, module, or path the error points at. Ground the signal in the codebase rather than guessing; name the suspected location. (AC-O2)
  3. Shape a repro SEED — not the finished test. Describe the smallest input/state likely to trigger the failure (or concrete manual repro steps when automation genuinely isn't possible — the same carve-out as /harness-claude:fix step 1). Do NOT write the finished failing test here — capturing the bug RED is /harness-claude:fix's non-negotiable first step; duplicating it blurs the boundary. (AC-O3)
  4. Hand off to /harness-claude:fix — then stop. Pass the package: the structured failure description (1), the located area (2), and the repro seed (3). /harness-claude:fix runs reproduce → root-cause → minimal fix-plan and rides the existing review/verify/ship gates. /harness-claude:observe does not duplicate any of that, and stays read-only throughout. (AC-O4)

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A a8805dd402e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasuag09/harness-claude (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,261 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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