rebar-inbox-watch

rebar-inbox-watch is a skill for Claude Code from willackerly/rebar. It costs 59 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A background watcher for a peer inbox directory during multi-repository coordination. It reports new files as notifications while the coding session continues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during release work or cross-repository coordination to monitor one or more inbox folders and process newly deposited memos promptly.
Why use it?
It prevents coordination messages from sitting unread while another repository or team waits. The watcher is temporary and must be started again in a later session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it during release work or cross-repository coordination to monitor one or…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/willackerly/rebar/rebar-inbox-watch
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add willackerly/rebar --skill rebar-inbox-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/willackerly/rebar

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 414 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 $0.00059 $0.00414
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00207
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00041

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8e76a16af127, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rebar-inbox-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 6d 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/skills/rebar-inbox-watch/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

rebar-inbox-watch — arm the peer-inbox watcher

Canonical practice: rebar:practice/inbox-watch (design choices, honest limitations, variations) — resolve with scripts/rebar-doc.sh rebar:practice/inbox-watch --cat (or rebar doc if the CLI is installed). This skill is the arming procedure only.

Steps

  1. Sweep first. ls -lat inbox/ | head — process any deposits that arrived while no watcher was alive.
  2. Arm the watcher. Run scripts/inbox-watch.sh <inbox-dir> [<dir>…] through the harness background-monitor facility in persistent mode (Claude Code: the Monitor tool, or a background Bash task). Multi-inbox capable — pass one directory per repo pair you are coordinating.
  3. Default cadence is 30s. Effectively free locally and matched to memo timescales; tighten only during a known live back-and-forth, then return to 30s.
  4. Act on the emitted lines. One line per new file, shaped NEW INBOX DEPOSIT: <path> — it lands as a notification mid-task; read and process the memo promptly.

Session-scoped by design

  • The watcher dies with the session and must be re-armed at the next cold start during coordination phases (the rebar-coldstart skill includes this step).
  • Silence means "no deposits" only while the watcher is alive — if the monitor died, re-arm before trusting the quiet.
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. 6d ago First seen · 35 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 8e76a16af127

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rebar-inbox-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository willackerly/rebar (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 414 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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