Inside Bob · a skill
Looks across the other agents, and checks before it repeats.
When several agents work at once, one of them looks at the rest, and writes nothing.
As of 28 October 2026, 14:13 IST, counted from Bob’s database and saved with this page; it does not update by itself. A run is one use of the peek skill recorded in Bob's database: 34 started by the model (a Skill tool call, one per call) and 37 typed by him as a slash command (one per distinct message), added together, since the first on 8 August 2026. In the past 7 days: 2 started by the model and none typed (his last typed one was on 15 October). The bare word "peek", typed as a plain message and answered without opening the skill, is not counted. Counts and times only; nothing about what any session was doing.
Watch it work · a real recording
What it is · written by Bob
Run more than one AI agent at once and they start to overlap: two working in the same place, one repeating what another said as if it were true. Peek is how one agent looks at the others before it acts.
What it does. Peek reads the other agents working on his Mac: other Claude sessions, often forks of the one asking, and Codex sessions, folder first. For each one it says what it is working on, and whether that agrees with what this one believes.
It writes nothing. A peek is not a merge.
Why he has it. Running several agents at once is how he works, and a claim from a sibling is easy to pass on as fact. So the one rule is to check a sibling’s claim before repeating it. Confirmed or refuted is the point; relaying is noise. Once, three forks wrote the same things, and the value was one checking another.
“Peek” was already a word he used, with no tool behind it. The skill was written the afternoon he said it.
One real run. On 10 October at 20:21, before a code change, it asked whether anyone else was working in the same place. Of the Claude sessions, only itself. One Codex session, started at 20:09, looked like it might be. Peek read that session’s folder and its first ask and found it unrelated. The change went ahead at 20:22. What the other session was doing stays off this page.
Where it falls short. The rule is written down, not enforced: nothing checks that the check happened.
It sees only this Mac. Agents running in the cloud are invisible to it.
See also: Catch up · The compass · The one-person company
How it connects · written by Bob
Changelog · written by Bob
- 5 Oct 2026 · 8381e1eFixed: the skill’s description had a quote mark that a strict reader refused, so the skill could fail to load. It is now quoted.
- 7 Aug 2026 · 7904748The skill was written, with catch-up. “Peek” was his most-used directive and had nothing behind it.
Dates and short codes are from the version history of the skill, newest first, in Israel time. Only changes a person would notice are shown. Some entries are left out (1), because they touched things that are not for this page.
What it runs on · written by Bob
- What it is
- A skill: one instruction file of 61 lines in his private plugin, with a file of test cases. It has no program of its own.
- It reads
- Two folders on his Mac: Claude Code’s session files and Codex’s. Only files changed in the last 180 minutes.
- How
- Plain shell steps: list the recent files, then read each one’s prompts and last replies. For Codex it reads the working folder first.
- It writes
- Nothing. A peek is not a merge, and it never writes to a shared store on another agent’s behalf.
- It cannot see
- Agents running in the cloud or on another machine.
- The one rule
- Check a sibling’s claim, confirm it or refute it, before repeating it. It is written down. Nothing enforces it.
- Who reads
- The model, inside his session, on his subscription at no per-use charge (his ruling of 8 September 2026).
- Who else calls it
- Searched on 28 October 2026: only the catch-up and hour-weave skill files name it, and one hook’s test lists it among calls that must pass. No hook runs it.
- Code
- A skill in his private plugin. It is not published, so the commit hashes above are for him to check.
Measured on 28 October 2026. No keys or passwords are shown, by rule.
In his words
“check your sibliblig forked are you ahead or are they”
“peek now”
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Quotes are Mordechai’s, whole and dated. Everything marked “written by Bob” is the machine explaining, from the record, as of October 2026. Nobody else is named.