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Triage Squad work queues without making unintended bulk changes
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Install Work Monitoring
$ npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install bradygaster/squad work-monitoring --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.squad/skills/work-monitoring .claude/skills/work-monitoring && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "work-monitoring" agent skill from https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoring into .claude/skills/work-monitoring/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "work-monitoring", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoringType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install bradygaster/squad work-monitoring --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.squad/skills/work-monitoring .agents/skills/work-monitoring && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "work-monitoring" agent skill from https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoring into .agents/skills/work-monitoring/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "work-monitoring", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install bradygaster/squad work-monitoring --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.squad/skills/work-monitoring .cursor/skills/work-monitoring && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "work-monitoring" agent skill from https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoring into .cursor/skills/work-monitoring/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "work-monitoring", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git --path .squad/skills/work-monitoring--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install bradygaster/squad work-monitoring --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.squad/skills/work-monitoring .gemini/skills/work-monitoring && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "work-monitoring" agent skill from https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoring into .gemini/skills/work-monitoring/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "work-monitoring", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install bradygaster/squad work-monitoringInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.squad/skills/work-monitoring .github/skills/work-monitoring && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "work-monitoring" agent skill from https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoring into .github/skills/work-monitoring/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "work-monitoring", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install bradygaster/squad work-monitoring --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradygaster/squad.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.squad/skills/work-monitoring .opencode/skills/work-monitoring && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "work-monitoring" agent skill from https://github.com/bradygaster/squad/tree/dev/.squad/skills/work-monitoring into .opencode/skills/work-monitoring/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "work-monitoring", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
work-monitoring- GitHub stars
- 3.3k
- Token cost
- ~445 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 216 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 31
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Triage Squad work queues without making unintended bulk changes
- Works in 7 steps: List candidates using the narrowest… → Hydrate every candidate before mutating… → Prioritize untriaged work, assigned… → …
- SKILL.md covers Scope, Procedure, Stop Conditions and Anti-Patterns
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Work Monitoring is an agent skill from bradygaster/squad. Triage Squad work queues without making unintended bulk changes
Its SKILL.md is about 450 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: Squad: AI agent teams for any project. The licence is MIT.
Example prompts
- “/work-monitoring”
Workflow steps
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- List candidates using the narrowest available filters.
- Hydrate every candidate before mutating it; list results alone are not sufficient evidence.
- Prioritize untriaged work, assigned work, CI failures, review feedback, and approved pull
- Route domain work to the accountable specialist in .squad/routing.md.
- After every mutation, refetch the exact item and verify the requested transition and fields.
- Stop immediately on a verification mismatch; do not continue with later mutations.
- Use the focused two-pass scan for broad retrieval, then inspect only actionable candidates.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e0c84dd. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
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
Work Monitoring loads about 445 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 20 tokens; SKILL.md has 216 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
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 bradygaster/squad at commit e0c84dd, republished under its MIT licence (© bradygaster). 216 words, ~445 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/work-monitoring/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- work-monitoring
- description
- Triage Squad work queues without making unintended bulk changes
- domain
- work-monitoring, github
- confidence
- high
- source
- retained pre-recast procedure, reviewed for the descriptive cast
Work Monitoring
Use this skill when monitoring Squad issues, pull requests, CI, review feedback, or a labeled work queue.
Scope
- Start with a named repository, explicit workstream, label set, and state filter.
- Produce monitoring reports, triage summaries, and narrowly scoped coordination actions.
- Do not turn monitoring into product implementation or broad cleanup.
Procedure
- List candidates using the narrowest available filters.
- Hydrate every candidate before mutating it; list results alone are not sufficient evidence.
- Prioritize untriaged work, assigned work, CI failures, review feedback, and approved pull requests according to the active request.
- Route domain work to the accountable specialist in
.squad/routing.md. - After every mutation, refetch the exact item and verify the requested transition and fields.
- Stop immediately on a verification mismatch; do not continue with later mutations.
- Use the focused two-pass scan for broad retrieval, then inspect only actionable candidates.
Stop Conditions
- Stop before mutation when the workstream, labels, repository, or state filter is ambiguous.
- Stop when candidates cannot be hydrated or post-mutation state cannot be verified.
- Stop when an action would exceed the explicitly scoped queue or become product work.
Anti-Patterns
- Applying bulk changes from a generic label alone.
- Closing, relabeling, assigning, or deleting based only on list output.
- Treating Ralph's monitoring role as authorization to modify product artifacts.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in .squad/skills/work-monitoring of bradygaster/squad.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit e0c84dd
Compare with similar skills
Work Monitoring next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Work Monitoring this skillbradygaster/squad | 3.3k | — | ~445 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Triaging Merge Queue FailuresPostHog/posthog | 40k | — | ~9.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Distributed Triagepytorch/pytorch | 104k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Triaging Issuespytorch/pytorch | 104k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Issue Triagepaperclipai/paperclip | 100k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Triagepnpm/pnpm | 37k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Work Monitoring
What does Work Monitoring do?
Triage Squad work queues without making unintended bulk changes. Work Monitoring is an agent skill from bradygaster/squad.
How do I install Work Monitoring in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.squad/skills/work-monitoring in bradygaster/squad) into .claude/skills/work-monitoring in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Work Monitoring in Codex?
Run `npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.squad/skills/work-monitoring in bradygaster/squad) into .agents/skills/work-monitoring in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Work Monitoring in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bradygaster/squad --skill work-monitoring -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/work-monitoring, .gemini/skills/work-monitoring, .github/skills/work-monitoring and .opencode/skills/work-monitoring in your project.
What does Work Monitoring need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Work Monitoring is instructions for the agent only.
Does Work Monitoring access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Work Monitoring safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Work Monitoring use?
Work Monitoring is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Work Monitoring use?
About 445 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Work Monitoring?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Work Monitoring: Triaging Merge Queue Failures (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars), Distributed Triage (pytorch/pytorch, 104k stars), Triaging Issues (pytorch/pytorch, 104k stars) and Issue Triage (paperclipai/paperclip, 100k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Work Monitoring?
bradygaster (a GitHub user) maintains it in bradygaster/squad, which has 3,261 GitHub stars. The repository holds 31 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.
Source: bradygaster/squad on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.