watch SKILL.md skillA
watch from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/watch@git:20260611.0f3f8e7Pins git:20260611.0f3f8e7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sethgammon/citadel
- Path
skills/watch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260611.0f3f8e7, committed Jun 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 15, 2026
- Size
- 11,543 bytes
- Repository stars
- 927
- License
- MIT
File sentinel that monitors the working directory for changes and marker comments, then auto-triggers appropriate skills. Poll-based via git diff against the last scan commit. Writes intake items for batch processing and routes marker actions through /do. Use for automatic reactions to file changes; do NOT use for one-off inspection or tasks needing human judgment per file.
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
# /watch -- File Sentinel
Use when the user wants automatic reactions to file changes or marker comments (`@citadel:`).
Do NOT use for one-off file inspection or tasks that need human judgment per file.
## Orientation
**Use when:** running a file sentinel that triggers a skill or command automatically when watched paths change.
**Don't use when:** monitoring CI status on a PR (use /pr-watch); running a one-shot verification check (use /verify).
## Default execution path (READ FIRST)
**`/watch start` does NOT call `CronCreate` by default.** Only pass `--remote`
to use Anthropic's routine system, and only after explicit user confirmation.
`CronCreate` counts against the **15 routine runs / 24h** cap — at the default
5-minute interval a watch exhausts the quota in under an hour.
### Default flow — `/watch start` (no `--remote` flag)
1. Do Steps 1 and 2 below (check existing watch, determine baseline commit).
2. **Skip Step 3** — do NOT call `CronCreate`. Leave `cronId: null` in state.
3. Write the state file (Step 4) with `status: "watching"`.
4. Output:
```
Watch state created: .planning/watch-state.json
Baseline: {commit hash, first 7 chars}
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/watch@sha256:6fbeda8981a8cdf0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260611.0f3f8e7, 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_rvn2uai56lmjvuw3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 15, 2026 and Jun 11, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260611.0f3f8e7 latest | 2026-06-11 | 0f3f8e7 | 11,543 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.2615291 | 2026-06-11 | 2615291 | 11,530 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.76d4165 | 2026-06-11 | 76d4165 | 11,528 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260503.631b94d | 2026-05-03 | 631b94d | 10,515 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260415.9713f2b | 2026-04-15 | 9713f2b | 16,766 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 (11543 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
sethgammon/citadel · 927 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rvn2uai56lmjvuw3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sethgammon/citadel/watch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6fbeda8981a8cdf022322180cf3fa3c1aa05ec2de6a89e1973113f1e6eb694fb
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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