job-babysitting SKILL.md skillA
job-babysitting from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/job-babysitting@git:20261107.9f2365fPins git:20261107.9f2365f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
- Path
skills/job-babysitting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261107.9f2365f, committed Nov 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 20, 2026
- Size
- 11,485 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Directly monitor long-running jobs or pipelines, classify them as healthy, waiting, stalled, failed, completed, or unknown, and choose the next action. Use when the active agent needs to babysit training runs, batch jobs, services, experiments, or scheduled work over time.
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
# Job Babysitting ## Treat Babysitting As State Classification - Babysitting means maintaining an evidence-backed view of whether work is progressing and intervening only when the evidence supports it. - Compose this skill with scheduler, experiment, or domain skills. Use those skills for platform-specific commands and this skill for monitoring logic. - Reuse the project's existing monitoring signals before inventing a new dashboard or parser. - The active agent owns the monitoring loop end to end. Do not hand the work to a separate service, timer, watcher, or one-off agent. ## Run The Monitoring Loop Directly 1. Define the requested terminal or decision condition. 2. Define progress signals and their expected cadence before polling. 3. Inspect scheduler or process state, then verify logs and expected artifacts. 4. Classify the state and take only the proportionate next action. 5. Report the evidence, wait for the next meaningful cadence, and repeat. - Continue until the terminal condition is met, the user stops monitoring, or a genuine blocker requires new authority or information. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/job-babysitting@sha256:fb71afc4b6618c3bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.9f2365f, 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_nwuf633o7kbkmlkv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 20, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 58 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261107.9f2365f latest | 2026-11-07 | 9f2365f | 11,485 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.ca6960f | 2026-10-13 | ca6960f | 9,952 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.9b3de7c | 2026-09-21 | 9b3de7c | 8,538 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.08fd83c | 2026-07-12 | 08fd83c | 5,410 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.999ac68 | 2026-03-20 | 999ac68 | 4,229 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 (11485 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
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nwuf633o7kbkmlkv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/job-babysitting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fb71afc4b6618c3b377691d279722abfe81716e464c814090d724d1c58e4906d
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.