# Agent Watchdog

Use when asked to watch, babysit, audit, review, compare, or fix another agent's work...

- Repository: https://github.com/BuilderIO/skills (4626 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-28
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill agent-watchdog -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill agent-watchdog -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill agent-watchdog -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill agent-watchdog -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add BuilderIO/skills`

## Description

Use when asked to watch, babysit, audit, review, compare, or fix another agent's work from a Codex session ID, Claude Code session/transcript, chat/thread link, PR, branch, log, or pasted run summary. Monitor until the other agent is done or blocked, reconstruct what the user asked, independently investigate the same problem to form your own hypotheses and approach, inspect what the agent actually changed and verified, compare the two investigations, report gaps and add-on directions, and optionally make scoped fixes when the user authorizes repair.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Agent Watchdog

Watch another agent's work like a reviewer with a pager who is also a second
investigator: wait for completion when needed, reconstruct the request, run
your own independent investigation of the same problem, verify the evidence,
and close the gap between what was asked and what actually happened. You are
not just grading their homework, you are a second solver whose findings get
diffed against theirs so nothing is missed.

## Choose The Mode

Infer the mode from the user's wording:

- **Watch only:** monitor a session, PR, branch, CI run, or transcript until it
  reaches a terminal state. Do not edit files.
- **Audit:** read the prompt, transcript, diff, tests, CI, comments, screenshots,
  or final claims, run the independent investigation below, and return a gap
  report plus add-on directions. Do not edit files.
- **Audit and fix:** audit first, then make narrow fixes for clear gaps. Avoid
  broad rewrites, branch movement, or speculative changes.
- **Compare:** when given multiple sessions or agents, compare their work against
  the same original request and reconcile the important differences.

If authority is unclear, default to audit-only and say what you would fix.

## Resolve The Target

1. Identify every artifact the user supplied: session ID, transcript path,
   thread URL, PR, branch, commit, CI run, issue, Slack link, or pasted summary.
2. Use the host's native thread/history tools, local transcript files, repo
   logs, GitHub tools, or pasted content to resolve the artifact. Prefer the
   most direct source over summaries.
3. If the artifact is still running and the user asked to watch, poll at a
   reasonable interval until it is done, blocked, stale, or clearly waiting on a
   human/external system.
4. If the artifact cannot be resolved, ask for the missing identifier or path.

## Reconstruct The Contract

Build a compact contract before judging the work:

The rest: https://github.com/BuilderIO/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/agent-watchdog/SKILL.md