Agent skill

Clawmetry Selfcheck

by vivekchand in vivekchand/clawmetry

Read your own agent telemetry from ClawMetry (waste, progress, cost) and act on it before finishing a task.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Clawmetry Selfcheck

skills CLI
$ npx skills add vivekchand/clawmetry --skill clawmetry-selfcheck -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install vivekchand/clawmetry clawmetry-selfcheck --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/vivekchand/clawmetry.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/docs/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck .claude/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck && 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
clawmetry-selfcheck
GitHub stars
425
Token cost
~515 tokens
SKILL.md length
167 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
3
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Read your own agent telemetry from ClawMetry (waste, progress, cost) and act on it before finishing a task.

  • ClawMetry is installed on this machine and you want to check whether you are re-reading files
  • SKILL.md covers The 3-step check (run before…, How to act on what you find and Digging deeper
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Spinning in loops

What it does

Clawmetry Selfcheck is an agent skill from vivekchand/clawmetry. Read your own agent telemetry from ClawMetry (waste, progress, cost) and act on it before finishing a task. Use when ClawMetry is installed on this machine and you want to check whether you are re-reading files, spinning in loops, or burning budget.

Its SKILL.md is about 520 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Observability and LLM cost and token optimization. It works with OpenTelemetry and Python. The repository describes itself as: See your agent think. Zero-config observability & governance for 30 AI agent runtimes: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw & 26 more. Live token costs, sessions, tool… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • ClawMetry is installed on this machine and you want to check whether you are re-reading files
  • Spinning in loops

Example prompts

  • “/clawmetry-selfcheck”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 795d6fa. 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 (its code samples are bash).

    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

Clawmetry Selfcheck loads about 515 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 167 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~515

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 vivekchand/clawmetry at commit 795d6fa, republished under its MIT licence (© vivekchand). 167 words, ~515 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
clawmetry-selfcheck
description
Read your own agent telemetry from ClawMetry (waste, progress, cost) and act on it before finishing a task. Use when ClawMetry is installed on this machine and you want to check whether you are re-reading files, spinning in loops, or burning budget.

ClawMetry self-check

ClawMetry observes AI agent sessions on this machine (read-only). Use its CLI to see your own telemetry and improve your behaviour mid-task.

All commands are read-only, exit 3 when ClawMetry has no data source running (safe to skip silently), and support --json.

The 3-step check (run before finishing a task)

bash
# 1. Re-read tax: files you paid to read more than once
clawmetry waste --since 6h --json

# 2. Spinning check: forward progress + loop signals
clawmetry progress --json

# 3. Spend check
clawmetry usage --json

How to act on what you find

SignalAction
A file with reads > 3 in wasteStop re-reading it. Write its structure into your working notes once; use offset-ranged reads for big files.
High ratio (tokens per state-delta) in progressYou are burning tokens without producing new state. Write down what you tried, change strategy.
loop_signals non-emptyYou repeated near-identical calls. Do not retry the same thing; diagnose instead.
Cost spike in usageCheck usage --by model: are you using a bigger model than the task needs?

Digging deeper

bash
clawmetry sessions --active                  # who is running
clawmetry sessions <SID> --transcript        # what actually happened
clawmetry sessions <SID> --cost              # where the money went (incl. sub-agents)
clawmetry sessions <SID> --errors            # error events only
clawmetry activity --follow --max-events 50  # live NDJSON event stream
clawmetry usage --efficiency                 # A-F efficiency grade

Exit codes: 0 ok, 3 no data source (skip), 4 feature needs an upgrade (stderr carries a JSON body with upgrade_url; surface it to your human).

© vivekchand, 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 docs/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck of vivekchand/clawmetry.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 795d6fa

Compare with similar skills

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Questions about Clawmetry Selfcheck

What does Clawmetry Selfcheck do?

Read your own agent telemetry from ClawMetry (waste, progress, cost) and act on it before finishing a task. Clawmetry Selfcheck is an agent skill from vivekchand/clawmetry. Read your own agent telemetry from ClawMetry (waste, progress, cost) and act on it before finishing a task.

When should I use Clawmetry Selfcheck?

Clawmetry Selfcheck fits situations like: clawMetry is installed on this machine and you want to check whether you are re-reading files; spinning in loops.

How do I install Clawmetry Selfcheck in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add vivekchand/clawmetry --skill clawmetry-selfcheck -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (docs/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck in vivekchand/clawmetry) into .claude/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Clawmetry Selfcheck in Codex?

Run `npx skills add vivekchand/clawmetry --skill clawmetry-selfcheck -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (docs/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck in vivekchand/clawmetry) into .agents/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Clawmetry Selfcheck 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 vivekchand/clawmetry --skill clawmetry-selfcheck -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck, .gemini/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck, .github/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck and .opencode/skills/clawmetry-selfcheck in your project.

What does Clawmetry Selfcheck need to run?

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

Does Clawmetry Selfcheck 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 Clawmetry Selfcheck 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 Clawmetry Selfcheck use?

Clawmetry Selfcheck 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 Clawmetry Selfcheck use?

About 515 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k 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 Clawmetry Selfcheck?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Clawmetry Selfcheck: Logfire Instrumentation (basicmachines-co/basic-memory, 4.1k stars), Azure Monitor Opentelemetry Exporter Py (microsoft/skills, 3.1k stars), Azure Monitor Opentelemetry Py (microsoft/skills, 3.1k stars) and Enforcing Nophi Logging (maziyarpanahi/openmed, 5.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Clawmetry Selfcheck?

vivekchand (a GitHub user) maintains it in vivekchand/clawmetry, which has 425 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

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