Babysitter Process Runner

About this skill

Babysitter Process Runner is a skill in a5c-ai/babysitter (1.8k stars). Its SKILL.md is about 726 tokens, and copies of it appear in 1 other owners' repositories. Licence: MIT.

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Write, Task, Bash, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch, Search, AskUserQuestion, TodoWrite, TodoRead, Skill, BashOutput, KillShell, MultiEdit, LS

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit feb68ab. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Grep
  • Write
  • Task
  • Bash
  • Edit
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • WebFetch
  • WebSearch

  …and 9 more on the same allowed-tools line.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • npm
  • node

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Babysitter Process Runner loads about 726 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 68 tokens; SKILL.md has 257 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~68

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~726

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Write, Task, Bash, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch, Search, AskUserQuestion, TodoW

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from a5c-ai/babysitter at commit feb68ab, republished under its MIT licence (© a5c-ai). 257 words, ~726 tokens.

name

babysit

description

Execute via @babysitter. Use this skill when asked to babysit a task, do anything that is structured process-driven (even a loop) or whenever it is called explicitly. (babysit, babysitter, with a process, orchestrate, orchestrate a run, workflow, loop until, etc.)

allowed-tools

Read, Grep, Write, Task, Bash, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch, Search, AskUserQuestion, TodoWrite, TodoRead, Skill, BashOutput, KillShell, MultiEdit, LS

version

0.1.3

find .a5c/runs -maxdepth 3 -name work -type d -print

SDK_VERSION=$(node -e "try{console.log(JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('${{{pluginRootEnvVar}}}/versions.json','utf8')).sdkVersion||'latest')}catch{console.log('latest')}")
npm i -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk@$SDK_VERSION || npm i -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk@latest

if command -v babysitter >/dev/null 2>&1 && babysitter --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  CLI="babysitter"
else
  CLI="npm exec --yes --package @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk@$SDK_VERSION -- babysitter"
fi

$CLI instructions:babysit-skill --harness {{harness}} --interactive

$CLI instructions:babysit-skill --harness {{harness}} --no-interactive

© a5c-ai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/babysitter-unified/skills/babysit of a5c-ai/babysitter.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit feb68ab

Used in 1 other repository

We found 4 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in a5c-ai/babysitter, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• Asymmetric-al/core.agents/skills/babysit.claude/skills/babysit+2 more