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babysit

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About babysit

A skill for orchestrating iterative runs with the babysitter SDK and CLI. It directs agents to follow the CLI's run instructions, verify dependencies, and keep scratch work outside run directories.

Key features

  1. 01Run babysitter orchestration instructions
  2. 02Check SDK version compatibility
  3. 03Verify CLI execution before use
  4. 04Keep scratch work outside run directories

Use cases

  1. 01Start an interactive orchestration run
  2. 02Run orchestration without interaction
  3. 03Prepare and validate agent scratch work

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter --skill babysit

After installing, type/babysitin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

babysit

Orchestrate .a5c/runs/<runId>/ through iterative execution.

Subagents that need a scratch checkout or working directory must create it under /tmp/<descriptive-name>/, not under .a5c/runs/<runId>/work. Before returning deliverables, validate that no run-dir worktree was left behind, for example:

find .a5c/runs -maxdepth 3 -name work -type d -print

That command should print nothing. If it prints a non-empty work directory, move or remove only the scratch data you created before returning.

Dependencies

Babysitter SDK and CLI

Read the SDK version from versions.json to ensure version compatibility:

SDK_VERSION=$(node -e "try{console.log(JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('${CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT}/versions.json','utf8')).sdkVersion||'latest')}catch{console.log('latest')}")

Use an installed babysitter command only after proving it can execute:

if command -v babysitter >/dev/null 2>&1 && babysitter --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  CLI="babysitter"
else
  CLI="npm exec --yes --package @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk@$SDK_VERSION -- babysitter"
fi

If a stale or broken global shim fails with MODULE_NOT_FOUND, repair it with npm rm -g @a5c-ai/babysitter @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk && npm i -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk@$SDK_VERSION, then re-run babysitter --version.

jq

Make sure jq is installed and available in the path. If not, install it.

Instructions

Run the following command to get full orchestration instructions:

$CLI instructions:babysit-skill --harness codex --interactive

For non-interactive runs (e.g., with -p flag or no question tool):

$CLI instructions:babysit-skill --harness codex --no-interactive

Follow the instructions returned by the command above to orchestrate the run.

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