monitor SKILL.md skillA
monitor from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/monitor@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills
- Path
skills/monitor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 13,678 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Run a bounded, self-checking polling loop (sleep -> check -> decide, repeat) WITHOUT ENDING THE TURN. The turn ends only when the watched thing is done, has failed, or genuinely needs the user's attention — which is what makes Amplifier's end-of-turn notification fire correctly and honestly. Primarily invoked explicitly via `/monitor <thing to watch>`, e.g. `/monitor the CI run for PR 412, check every 2m, stop after 1h`. May also be self-invoked in the rare case you are about to tell the user…
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
# Monitor
You invoked (or are about to invoke) a bounded polling loop for: **$ARGUMENTS**
The entire point of this skill is that your TURN does not end until one of three
outcomes is reached. Ending the turn with "I'll check and let you know" instead
of actually running this loop is exactly the failure this skill exists to prevent.
Do not do that.
## Self-invocation guard (only relevant if you were NOT explicitly told `/monitor`)
Only start this loop on your own initiative if ALL of the following hold:
1. You were about to say something like "I'll keep an eye on it / let you know
when it's done" -- i.e. you were about to make a promise you have no other
way to keep once this turn ends.
2. The condition is concrete and checkable right now (a command, URL, log line,
process, CI status) -- not vague ("I'll think about it more").
3. The user asked for ongoing follow-up, not a single point-in-time answer.
If any of those don't hold: do a single check and stop, or ask the user what
"done" means. Don't silently start a multi-hour loop nobody asked for -- that
burns the user's time and locks out their session just as much as no follow-up
would have, just less visibly.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/monitor@sha256:666333de400072fcThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_aaembpdzapdpyhcq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Aug 30, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-08-30 | e465f5e | 13,678 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-28 | b334c9d | 13,578 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-28 | e5a837e | 12,056 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13678 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 link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aaembpdzapdpyhcq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/monitor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/666333de400072fce6135bb34ac7d5f8ec1d6f13be2874987e6e3fda19fb715f
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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