Aha-Loop: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/observability/SKILL.md

observability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A logging system that records an AI agent’s important decisions, uncertainties, errors, and progress in human-readable files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to keep a running record of task starts, major choices, unexpected findings, failures, recovery steps, and completion.
Why use it?
It helps people see how the agent reached decisions and what went wrong when a task does not proceed as expected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on Aha-Loop itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Aha-Loop configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop/main/.agents/skills/observability/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,581 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 $0.00022 $0.01581
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00632
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00158

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 99b6a0e35901, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

observability 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 2mo 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.

.agents/skills/observability/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Observability Skill

Maintain transparent, human-readable logs of AI decision-making process.

Workspace Mode Note

When running in workspace mode, log to .aha-loop/logs/ai-thoughts.md instead of logs/ai-thoughts.md. The orchestrator will provide the actual paths in the prompt context.


The Job

  1. Log significant thoughts and decisions to logs/ai-thoughts.md
  2. Provide visibility into AI reasoning process
  3. Create anchors for humans to understand what's happening
  4. Never hide failures or uncertainty

When to Log

Always Log

  • Starting a new task - What am I about to do and why
  • Major decisions - When choosing between approaches
  • Unexpected findings - Something surprising or important
  • Errors and recovery - What went wrong and how I'm handling it
  • Completion - What was accomplished

Optional Log (Detailed Level)

  • Intermediate steps
  • Research findings
  • Minor decisions
  • Progress updates

Log Format

Append to logs/ai-thoughts.md:

## 2026-01-29 14:30:00 | Task: PRD-003 | Phase: Research

### Context
I'm researching authentication strategies for the web app. This is critical 
because it affects security architecture and user experience.

### Inner Thoughts
The vision mentions "simple" and "quick to use". Traditional username/password 
might add friction. Considering passwordless options but need to evaluate 
complexity tradeoffs.

### Decision Point
- Considering: Traditional email/password
- Considering: Magic link (passwordless)
- Considering: OAuth only (Google/GitHub)
- **Chosen:** Magic link with OAuth fallback
- **Reason:** Aligns with "simple" goal, reduces password fatigue, 
  OAuth provides familiar alternative

### Current Progress
- [x] Read vision requirements
- [x] Research auth options
- [ ] Prototype magic link flow
- [ ] Evaluate email service options

### Observations
- Magic link requires reliable email delivery
- Need to consider rate limiting to prevent abuse
- Session duration is important for UX

### Next Action
Will research email service providers (Resend, SendGrid) and evaluate 
their free tiers since budget constraint mentioned "no paid APIs".

---

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 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. 2mo ago First seen · 301 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 99b6a0e35901

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observability is a skill published in the GitHub repository YougLin-dev/Aha-Loop (178 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,581 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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