arduino-serial-monitor

arduino-serial-monitor is a skill for Claude Code from wedsamuel1230/arduino-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,542 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A tool and workflow for reading, recording, filtering, and analyzing serial output from Arduino and other embedded boards. Serial output is text or data sent by firmware to a computer for runtime debugging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor serial ports, save timestamped logs, filter text or structured formats such as JSON and CSV, detect warnings, and preserve reset or boot information.
Why use it?
Compiler success does not show what a device does while running. Captured and structured logs provide evidence about startup, sensor values, resets, timing, communication failures, and field behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the arduino-skills plugin — 33 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to monitor serial ports, save timestamped logs, filter text or structured formats such as JSON and CSV, detect warnings, and preserve reset or boot information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wedsamuel1230/arduino-skills/arduino-serial-monitor
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 wedsamuel1230/arduino-skills --skill arduino-serial-monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wedsamuel1230/arduino-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arduino-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,542 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00061 $0.01542
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00771
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00154

Measured 12d ago against content hash f9454f3239da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

arduino-serial-monitor scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1 executable file (scripts/monitor_serial.py), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
skills/arduino-serial-monitor/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arduino Serial Monitor

This skill provides advanced tools for reading and analyzing serial monitor data from Arduino boards, enhancing the debugging experience beyond the basic Arduino IDE serial monitor.

Features

  • Real-time Serial Monitoring: Connect to Arduino serial ports and display data in real-time
  • Data Logging: Save serial output to files with timestamps for later analysis
  • Filtering & Pattern Matching: Filter output by keywords, regex patterns, or data types
  • Error Detection: Automatically highlight common error patterns and warnings
  • Multiple Format Support: Handle different data formats (text, JSON, CSV, binary)
  • Cross-platform: Works with Windows, macOS, and Linux serial ports

Structured Debugging Workflow

  1. Record the exact board/revision, firmware/image identifier, toolchain and versions, port, baud, reset cause if known, and timestamp source.
  2. Prefer one line per event with stable fields such as t_ms=123 level=INFO event=sensor_read value=...; keep secrets and tokens out of output.
  3. Capture the unfiltered log before filtering. Preserve the first boot lines, reset/brownout/watchdog messages, and the transition that reproduces the symptom.
  4. Label conclusions as build, upload, hardware, system, or deployment evidence. Report the result by proof stages. A clean serial stream is not proof that pins, power, or the full system are correct.
  5. Pair with hardware-tdd for a test matrix and embedded-project-loop when the next observation must come from a user-operated board.
Serial.print("t_ms=");
Serial.print(millis());
Serial.print(" level=INFO event=ready board=");
Serial.println(BOARD_ID);

Use a fixed, bounded format appropriate to the board's memory budget. Do not log Wi-Fi passwords, API keys, certificates, tokens, or private data.

Usage

Basic Serial Monitoring

# Monitor serial port with default settings (9600 baud)
uv run --no-project scripts/monitor_serial.py --port COM3

# Specify baud rate and output file
uv run --no-project scripts/monitor_serial.py --port /dev/ttyACM0 --baud 115200 --output debug.log

# Filter for specific patterns
uv run --no-project scripts/monitor_serial.py --port COM3 --filter "ERROR|WARNING"

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 209 lines · 61 tokens per session scan B f9454f3239da

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arduino-serial-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository wedsamuel1230/arduino-skills (21 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,542 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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