Ops Daemon

What it does

Example prompts

• “/ops-daemon”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Plugin root: echo "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(ls -d "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/ops-marketplace/ops"/*/ 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)}"…
2. 2Daemon health: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/daemon-health.json — primary diagnostic input
3. 3Services config: cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/daemon-services.json — per-service command + cron definitions
4. 4OS: uname -s — daemon install is macOS-only (launchd). Linux/WSL/Windows fall back to manual invocation.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 10bfc43. 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:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • AskUserQuestion

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • jq
  • brew

  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

Ops Daemon loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 768 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~57

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

~2.2k

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: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion

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 davepoon/buildwithclaude at commit 10bfc43, republished under its MIT licence (© davepoon). 768 words, ~2,173 tokens.

name

ops-daemon

description

Check claude-ops background daemon end-to-end and auto-fix common issues. Detects stale plist paths after plugin upgrades, missing service commands, dead processes, corrupt health files, and bash version mismatches.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion

argument-hint

[check|fix|restart|status|uninstall]

effort

low

maxTurns

20

{
  "timestamp": "<ISO-8601 UTC>",
  "pid": <int>,
  "uptime_seconds": <int>,
  "services": {
    "<name>": {
      "status": "running|polling|scheduled|dead|needs_reauth",
      "pid": <int|null>,
      "last_health": "<string|null>",
      "last_run": "<ISO-8601|empty>",
      "next_run": "<ISO-8601|empty>",
      "restarts": <int>
    }
  },
  "action_needed": null | {"kind": "...", "service": "...", "message": "..."}
}

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS ► DAEMON CHECK
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 OS:           macos
 Plugin root:  ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}
 Daemon PID:   57004
 Uptime:       1h 12m

 ✓ Plist installed
 ✓ Plist points at current version
 ✓ Plist is valid XML
 ✓ Launchctl registered, PID alive
 ✓ Bash binary found (5.3)
 ✓ Health file fresh (mtime 23s ago)
 ✓ All 5 enabled services have commands
 ✓ Running services alive
 ✓ Cron services have future next_run

 STATUS: GREEN — daemon healthy

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS ► DAEMON FIX — 3 issues found
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

 ✗ Plist points at old version 1.0.0
   → Proposed: ops-daemon-manager.sh upgrade

# Morning habit: confirm the daemon survived overnight
/ops:daemon check

# After a plugin upgrade (`/plugin upgrade claude-ops`):
/ops:daemon fix
# → detects stale plist, asks [Apply upgrade], reloads, verifies

# Embedded in another skill:
/ops:daemon status | jq -r '.health_fresh'

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Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/claude-ops/skills/ops-daemon of davepoon/buildwithclaude.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 10bfc43