Agent skill

Uptime Monitor

by gooseworks-ai in gooseworks-ai/goose-skills

Monitor website uptime - check availability, response times, and status

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Uptime Monitor

skills CLI
$ npx skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill uptime-monitor -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install gooseworks-ai/goose-skills uptime-monitor --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/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/monitoring/capabilities/uptime-monitor .claude/skills/uptime-monitor && 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
uptime-monitor
GitHub stars
1.2k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
160 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
273
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Monitor website uptime - check availability, response times, and status

  • Works in 6 steps: Check Website Status → Verify Page Content → Test API Health → …
  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting
  • SKILL.md covers Setup, Workflow, Monitoring Script and Example Usage, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls curl, python3 and npx; reaches api.gooseworks.ai and stripe.com; needs GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY

What it does

Uptime Monitor is an agent skill from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. Monitor website uptime - check availability, response times, and status

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `skill.meta.json`).

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Monitoring and alerting. The repository describes itself as: Library of Growth & GTM skills + data APIs for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor to run ads, social, content, lead gen, seo and data scraping. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting

Example prompts

  • “/uptime-monitor”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • Node.js
  • A credential in GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Check Website Status
  2. Verify Page Content
  3. Test API Health
  4. Check Multiple Endpoints
  5. Research Status Page
  6. Send Alert (if down)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c650c6d. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • curl
    • python3
    • npx

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

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • api.gooseworks.ai
    • stripe.com
    • status.github.com
    • competitor.com

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

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY

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

Context cost

Uptime Monitor loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 22 tokens; SKILL.md has 160 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~22
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 gooseworks-ai/goose-skills at commit c650c6d, republished under its MIT licence (© gooseworks-ai). 160 words, ~1,335 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/uptime-monitor/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
uptime-monitor
description
Monitor website uptime - check availability, response times, and status
source
orthogonal

Uptime Monitor - Website Availability Monitoring

Setup

Read your credentials from ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json:

bash
export GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json'))['api_key'])")
export GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('$HOME/.gooseworks/credentials.json')).get('api_base','https://api.gooseworks.ai'))")

If ~/.gooseworks/credentials.json does not exist, tell the user to run: npx gooseworks login

All endpoints use Bearer auth: -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY"

Monitor website uptime, check response times, and verify service availability.

Workflow

Step 1: Check Website Status

Verify site is accessible:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"linkup","path":"/fetch","body":{"url":"https://yoursite.com"}}'
Step 2: Verify Page Content

Ensure page loads correctly:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"scrapegraph","path":"/v1/smartscraper"}'
  "website_url": "https://yoursite.com",
  "user_prompt": "Check if page loads and contains expected content. Report any error messages."
}'
Step 3: Test API Health

Check API endpoints:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"linkup","path":"/fetch","body":{"url":"https://api.yoursite.com/health"}}'
Step 4: Check Multiple Endpoints

Monitor critical paths:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"olostep","path":"/v1/batches"}'
  "urls": [
    "https://yoursite.com",
    "https://yoursite.com/login",
    "https://api.yoursite.com/health",
    "https://yoursite.com/dashboard"
  ]
}'
Step 5: Research Status Page

Check official status:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"scrapegraph","path":"/v1/smartscraper"}'
  "website_url": "https://status.yoursite.com",
  "user_prompt": "Extract current service status, any incidents, and affected components"
}'
Step 6: Send Alert (if down)

Use SMS for critical alerts:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"textbelt","path":"/text"}'
  "phone": "+1234567890",
  "message": "ALERT: yoursite.com is down! Check immediately."
}'

Monitoring Script

bash
SITES=("https://example.com" "https://api.example.com/health")

for site in "${SITES[@]}"; do
  echo "Checking: $site"
  curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"linkup","path":"/fetch","body":"{\\"}'
done

Example Usage

bash
# Quick status check
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"linkup","path":"/fetch","body":{"url":"https://stripe.com"}}'

# Check status page
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"scrapegraph","path":"/v1/smartscraper"}'
  "website_url": "https://status.github.com",
  "user_prompt": "What is the current status of GitHub services?"
}'

# Monitor competitor uptime
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"api":"linkup","path":"/fetch","body":{"url":"https://competitor.com"}}'

What to Monitor

  1. Homepage: Main website accessible
  2. API Health: Health check endpoints
  3. Login/Auth: Authentication working
  4. Critical Features: Core functionality
  5. Status Page: Official service status

Discover More

List all endpoints, or add a path for parameter details:

bash
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt":"linkup API endpoints"}' api show olostep
curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt":"scrapegraph API endpoints"}' api show textbelt 

Example: curl -s -X POST $GOOSEWORKS_API_BASE/v1/proxy/orthogonal/details \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"api":"olostep","path":"/v1/scrapes"}' for endpoint parameters.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/monitoring/capabilities/uptime-monitor of gooseworks-ai/goose-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • skill.meta.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c650c6d

Used in 1 other repository

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

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Categories

Questions about Uptime Monitor

What does Uptime Monitor do?

Monitor website uptime - check availability, response times, and status. Uptime Monitor is an agent skill from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills.

When should I use Uptime Monitor?

Uptime Monitor fits situations like: tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting.

How do I install Uptime Monitor in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill uptime-monitor -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/monitoring/capabilities/uptime-monitor in gooseworks-ai/goose-skills) into .claude/skills/uptime-monitor in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Uptime Monitor in Codex?

Run `npx skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill uptime-monitor -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/monitoring/capabilities/uptime-monitor in gooseworks-ai/goose-skills) into .agents/skills/uptime-monitor in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Uptime Monitor 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 gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill uptime-monitor -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/uptime-monitor, .gemini/skills/uptime-monitor, .github/skills/uptime-monitor and .opencode/skills/uptime-monitor in your project.

What does Uptime Monitor need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Uptime Monitor needs the command-line tools its instructions call (curl, python3 and npx) and credentials named GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; Node.js; A credential in GOOSEWORKS_API_KEY.

Does Uptime Monitor access the network?

SKILL.md names 4 domains. In commands or code: api.gooseworks.ai, stripe.com, status.github.com and competitor.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Uptime Monitor 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 Uptime Monitor use?

Uptime Monitor 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 Uptime Monitor use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Uptime Monitor?

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Who maintains Uptime Monitor?

gooseworks-ai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, which has 1,240 GitHub stars. The repository holds 273 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: gooseworks-ai/goose-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.