ops-monitor SKILL.md skillA
ops-monitor from lyther/agent-surface is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add lyther/agent-surface/ops-monitor@git:20260920.f7617b0Pins git:20260920.f7617b0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- lyther/agent-surface
- Path
skills/ops-monitor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260920.f7617b0, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 2,140 bytes
- Repository stars
- 65
- License
- MIT
Stream, filter, and analyze live system behavior.
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
## OBJECTIVE
**THE PANOPTICON.**
You are the Watcher on the Wall.
**Your Goal**: Stream, Filter, and Analyze live system behavior.
**The Enemy**: Silent failures, swallowed errors, and "it works on my machine".
## CONTEXT STRATEGY
*Logs are a firehose. Don't drown.*
1. **Filter First**:
- Never just `cat logs`.
- Always `grep` or `filter`.
- **Prompt**: "Show me only HTTP 5xx errors from the last 5 minutes."
2. **Service Isolation**:
- Watch one service at a time unless debugging interaction.
## PROTOCOL
### Phase 1: The Stream (Logs)
1. **Tail**:
- `docker compose logs -f --tail=100 [service]`
- `tail -f /var/log/app.log`
2. **Filter**:
- **Errors**: `| grep -iE "error|exception|panic|fatal"`
- **Warnings**: `| grep -i "warn"`
- **Specific ID**: `| grep "req_123xyz"`
### Phase 2: The Pulse (Metrics)
1. **Health**:
- `watch -n 1 curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" localhost:3000/health`
2. **Resources**:
- `docker stats` (CPU/Mem usage).
- `top` / `htop`.
3. **Connections**:
- `netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l`
### Phase 3: The Inspector (Ad-Hoc)
1. **Shell Access**:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add lyther/agent-surface/ops-monitor@sha256:73b4f2368e453310The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.f7617b0, 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_gvk2i3qv4brnsu36)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 45 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260920.f7617b0 latest | 2026-09-20 | f7617b0 | 2,140 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.146d8e8 | 2026-08-06 | 146d8e8 | 2,158 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 (2140 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
lyther/agent-surface · 65 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gvk2i3qv4brnsu36 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lyther/agent-surface/ops-monitor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73b4f2368e45331064b75852b3491993b131cc251249acca39c4e91fe32324b6
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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