Agent skill

Realtime Peek

by eric-tramel in eric-tramel/moraine

Use Moraine realtime session data to inspect active agent work across harnesses when the user asks what is happening now or what another agent is doing.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install Realtime Peek

skills CLI
$ npx skills add eric-tramel/moraine --skill realtime-peek -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install eric-tramel/moraine realtime-peek --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eric-tramel/moraine.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/moraine/skills/realtime-peek .claude/skills/realtime-peek && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
realtime-peek
GitHub stars
117
Token cost
~542 tokens
SKILL.md length
315 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Use Moraine realtime session data to inspect active agent work across harnesses when the user asks what is happening now or what another agent is doing.

  • Works in 5 steps: Choose a recent explicit time window… → Call list_sessions for that window,… → Prefer sessions that are still updating,… → …
  • Asks what is happening now
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, What To Report and Search Follow-Up
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Realtime Peek is an agent skill from eric-tramel/moraine. Use Moraine realtime session data to inspect active agent work across harnesses when the user asks what is happening now or what another agent is doing.

Its SKILL.md is about 540 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: Unified realtime agent trace database & search MCP. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Asks what is happening now
  • What another agent is doing

Example prompts

  • “/realtime-peek”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Choose a recent explicit time window with timezone. For "now" questions, start with the last one to two hours and widen only if needed.
  2. Call list_sessions for that window, sorted newest first.
  3. Prefer sessions that are still updating, have incomplete final turns, or match the harness, branch, issue, file, or agent named by the user.
  4. Open relevant sessions or turns with id-only open first. If the compact
  5. If the user asks about a specific file, call file_attention and then open the returned event, turn, or session handles.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2fb4aec. 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

Realtime Peek loads about 542 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 42 tokens; SKILL.md has 315 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~42
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~542

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 eric-tramel/moraine at commit 2fb4aec, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© eric-tramel). 315 words, ~542 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/realtime-peek/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
realtime-peek
description
Use Moraine realtime session data to inspect active agent work across harnesses when the user asks what is happening now or what another agent is doing.

Realtime Peek

Use this skill when the user asks about current or very recent agent activity, including other harnesses, sibling agents, subagents, or your own active session.

Workflow

  1. Choose a recent explicit time window with timezone. For "now" questions, start with the last one to two hours and widen only if needed.
  2. Call list_sessions for that window, sorted newest first.
  3. Prefer sessions that are still updating, have incomplete final turns, or match the harness, branch, issue, file, or agent named by the user.
  4. Open relevant sessions or turns with id-only open first. If the compact summary is insufficient, request a bounded page with id plus limit and continue with { "cursor": next_cursor } only as far as needed. Open an individual event ID when exact content is required.
  5. If the user asks about a specific file, call file_attention and then open the returned event, turn, or session handles.

What To Report

Summarize active work by source or harness, session title or ID, branch or working directory when visible, last update time, visible tool or terminal activity, and the current apparent state. Keep the summary compact and separate observed facts from inference.

If a record is still active, say that it is a live view and may change after the query. If the latest turn is incomplete, avoid treating it as a final decision.

Do not replay sensitive terminal or tool output into the current chat. Summarize what happened, redact secret-looking values such as tokens, keys, cookies, and credentials, and avoid quoting private data unless it is necessary for the user's requested debugging task.

Search Follow-Up

Use search_sessions with keyword queries when the recent session list is too broad or when the user gives a content clue such as an issue number, command, error, file path, or branch name. After finding a candidate, narrow with within_id rather than pulling whole sessions into context.

© eric-tramel, Apache-2.0. 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/moraine/skills/realtime-peek of eric-tramel/moraine.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2fb4aec

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Questions about Realtime Peek

What does Realtime Peek do?

Use Moraine realtime session data to inspect active agent work across harnesses when the user asks what is happening now or what another agent is doing. Realtime Peek is an agent skill from eric-tramel/moraine. Use Moraine realtime session data to inspect active agent work across harnesses when the user asks what is happening now or what another agent is doing.

When should I use Realtime Peek?

Realtime Peek fits situations like: asks what is happening now; what another agent is doing.

How do I install Realtime Peek in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add eric-tramel/moraine --skill realtime-peek -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/moraine/skills/realtime-peek in eric-tramel/moraine) into .claude/skills/realtime-peek in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Realtime Peek in Codex?

Run `npx skills add eric-tramel/moraine --skill realtime-peek -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/moraine/skills/realtime-peek in eric-tramel/moraine) into .agents/skills/realtime-peek in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Realtime Peek 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 eric-tramel/moraine --skill realtime-peek -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/realtime-peek, .gemini/skills/realtime-peek, .github/skills/realtime-peek and .opencode/skills/realtime-peek in your project.

What does Realtime Peek need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Realtime Peek is instructions for the agent only.

Does Realtime Peek 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 Realtime Peek 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 Realtime Peek use?

Realtime Peek is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Realtime Peek use?

About 542 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.2k 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 Realtime Peek?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Realtime Peek: Node Inspect Debugger (openclaw/openclaw, 392k stars), Modeling Activation Metrics (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars), Blender Motion State Inspection (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars) and Summarize Activity (alpinejs/alpine, 32k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Realtime Peek?

eric-tramel (a GitHub user) maintains it in eric-tramel/moraine, which has 117 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: eric-tramel/moraine on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.