macos-watchdog

An agent skill by daymade, from daymade/claude-code-skills. Tags: automation, devops, macos, monitoring, workflow.

What it does

Design, deploy, and discipline macOS launchd watchdogs — LaunchAgents/LaunchDaemons that detect a recurring problem and auto-remediate it. Use whenever creating or editing a persistent background monitor / daemon / agent on macOS, writing a launchd plist, scheduling a self-healing script, or when a watchdog has become a disturbance itself: re-launching apps the user quit, firing repeated notifications, re-running its full repair ladder every few minutes on an unfixable network, or hammering the system (crash loops, fork storms, runaway restarts). Also use for stop/disable semantics (bootout vs bootstrap vs disable vs unload), adding cooldown / backoff / notification throttling to a self-healer, binding a monitor's lifecycle to its premise state, or auditing existing LaunchAgents. 中文触发：launchd 守护进程、常驻任务、开机自启、后台监控、定时自愈脚本。 Covers KeepAlive/ThrottleInterval/domains/logging, premise self-checks, auto-cooldown, alert layering, batch throttling.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill macos-watchdog

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-macos/macos-watchdog ~/.claude/skills/macos-watchdog

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Source

Repository

daymade/claude-code-skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

daymade-macos/macos-watchdog/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-20

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