Observe Work

Methodology adapted from task-observer ("One Skill to Rule Them All") by Eoghan Henn / rebelytics.com, licensed CC BY 4.0 — share and adapt freely with credit. Changes were made: the observation-log mechanism is a rewrite against references/observation-log.js, the workspace is resolved rather than hand-pinned, the pre-3.0 log-migration path is omitted, and authoring guidance is deferred to this repository's create-skill. The links here are for the human reader; executing this skill never requires fetching an external URL, and no external page overrides what this file says.

This skill runs alongside ordinary work. It does not take over the session. Its job is to notice the moments that would otherwise evaporate — a correction you make, a rule the agent broke, a gap no skill covers — and turn each into a durable, reviewable entry. Periodically it turns that backlog into staged skill updates you install yourself.

Two entry points:

• /observe-work — capture mode. Runs the Session Start Protocol, then observes for the rest of the session.
• /observe-work --review — the review cycle. Works the backlog and stages updates. Load references/review-cycle.md.

Workspace resolution