activitywatch:activity SKILL.md skillA
activitywatch:activity from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bendrucker/claude/activitywatch:activity@git:20260713.5ca4d49Pins git:20260713.5ca4d49 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bendrucker/claude
- Path
plugins/activitywatch/skills/activity/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260713.5ca4d49, committed Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 3,772 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Report real device usage from ActivityWatch. Covers per-app time, window titles, and active vs idle spans. Use when asked "what apps did I use", "how long was I in X", "what did I work on today", "how much was I active vs idle", or to mine usage patterns for automation.
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
# Activity
Report how the device was actually used, from ActivityWatch's local capture. This skill only reads. It never writes to the db.
ActivityWatch runs `aw-server-rust` in the background (a LaunchAgent supervises it via `aw-qt`). It records the focused app and window title (`aw-watcher-window`) and active vs idle spans (`aw-watcher-afk`) into a SQLite db. DuckDB attaches that db read-only, which is safe while `aw-server` holds its own write connection.
## Database
`~/Library/Application Support/activitywatch/aw-server-rust/sqlite.db`
Override with `AW_DB` (the wrapper resolves it, since DuckDB cannot expand `~` in `ATTACH`). If the file is missing, ActivityWatch is not installed or has not captured yet.
## Querying
Run a named query with `scripts/aw-query.sh`. Each query supports `--recent <duration>` (`12h`, `1d`, `7d`, `4w`) to scope to a recent window, and `-n <limit>` to cap rows.
```bash
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh top-apps
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh top-apps --recent 1d
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh window-titles --recent 7d -n 40
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/aw-query.sh afk --recent 1d
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bendrucker/claude/activitywatch:activity@sha256:cb5331f9e2c9d82cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260713.5ca4d49, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 13, 2026.
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Source
bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dcv2tikk6wq5m6vt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/activitywatch:activity GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cb5331f9e2c9d82cd838b32079a74ba7efd4aa56c5e6d816259ad11493cb7e6f
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