watch-patterns SKILL.md skillB
watch-patterns from komluk/scaffolding is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add komluk/scaffolding/watch-patterns@git:20261011.22b3fe9Pins git:20261011.22b3fe9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- komluk/scaffolding
- Path
skills/watch-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261011.22b3fe9, committed Oct 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 9,470 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Correct watcher construction for long-running operations. TRIGGER when: watching a long-running operation (CI, deploy, log stream), writing poll/until loops, or using the Monitor tool. SKIP: production alerts/metrics (use monitoring-observability); log formatting (use logging-standards); diagnosing the bug (use systematic-debugging).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Watch Patterns Skill ## Purpose How to observe long-running operations correctly. Anyone can run a loop — the value is a watcher that **never lies**: it terminates, it detects failure as reliably as success, and its silence is never mistaken for progress. Key architectural fact: a subagent cannot hold a long-lived observation. Notifications from an armed `Monitor` land in the conversation that armed it; a subagent finishes and dies. Observation is therefore always armed by the main loop — this skill is loadable anywhere for exactly that reason. ## Auto-Invoke Triggers - Watching a CI run, deployment, file transfer, GC/prune job, or log stream - Writing any poll/`until` loop over a remote or local state - Using the `Monitor` tool or `Bash(run_in_background)` for observation --- ## Decision Tree — Choose the Mechanism FIRST The single most common failure is picking the wrong mechanism. Decide BEFORE writing any script: | Situation | Mechanism | |-----------|-----------| | "Is it done *now*?" — answerable immediately | **One-shot check.** Single command, no loop, no monitor. | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add komluk/scaffolding/watch-patterns@sha256:e8c3bb7ad6192707The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.22b3fe9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261011.22b3fe9 latest | 2026-10-11 | 22b3fe9 | 9,470 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260921.7dfd510 | 2026-09-21 | 7dfd510 | 9,448 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260730.f9501dd | 2026-07-30 | f9501dd | 9,451 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:1)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9470 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
komluk/scaffolding · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3drwpsodulnbh7tu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=komluk/scaffolding/watch-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e8c3bb7ad61927078c533342b19c63cc107213b63b297f1b199cd72e4340ec35
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