long-task-watcher SKILL.md skillA
long-task-watcher from mangowhoiscloud/geode is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mangowhoiscloud/geode/long-task-watcher@git:20260703.7e9ba6cPins git:20260703.7e9ba6c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mangowhoiscloud/geode
- Path
.geode/skills/long-task-watcher/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260703.7e9ba6c, committed Jul 3, 2026
- Size
- 1,902 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- Apache-2.0
Reliable progress watching for long-running background commands (training runs, live audits, batch jobs, CI) without losing output to stdout buffering. Prefer post-completion cat-and-grep over tail -F.
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
# Long-Task Watcher Patterns for tracking a long-running background command and surfacing its events without the classic `tail -F | grep` buffering trap: matching lines can sit in a 4KB stdout block buffer and never emit within the watch window, so a watcher waits forever on output that is already on disk. ## Pattern selection | Situation | Pattern | Why | |-----------|---------|-----| | Task finishes within minutes | Wait for completion, then `cat <logfile> \| grep -E "<filter>"` | No inotify/buffering dependency; no lost lines. Default choice. | | Long task, frequent progress lines | `stdbuf -oL tail -F <logfile> \| stdbuf -oL grep --line-buffered "<filter>"` | Forces line-buffering at every pipe stage (macOS: needs coreutils). | | External state (CI, deploy, queue) | Polling loop: `while true; do <one-shot status call>; sleep 30; done` | The external status API is the truth; tailing local output adds nothing. | | Task should stop the watch when it dies | Add `kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null \|\| break` to the polling loop | Breaks immediately on process exit instead of waiting for a timeout. | ## Rules …
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How to install
mdr add mangowhoiscloud/geode/long-task-watcher@sha256:c934d81340800347The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260703.7e9ba6c, 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 3, 2026.
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 (1902 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
mangowhoiscloud/geode · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gqfhb7i7ndvirs2y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mangowhoiscloud/geode/long-task-watcher GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c934d813408003474093fc20d739e5221e928506a9a555990c81aed38d982b6d
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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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