# convex-monitor

This skill blocks on the next event in a Convex app — a dev error, a prod error or a feature request — and hands it to the agent.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 35800 installs · ★ 68
- Author: convex
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/convex-monitor

## What it does

Instead of polling, the agent calls `wait_for_event` with `{project_dir, event_kinds, timeout_ms}` and waits. Local error logs, deployment subscriptions and Sentinel prod-error rows race each other, and the first one to fire wins. If nothing happens, you get a quiet heartbeat.

What comes next depends on the kind. `convex_error` or `next_error` — decode and fix. `prod_error` — triage through sentinel, then fix. `feature_request` — build it. `quiet` — loop again. The event schema is fixed and versioned, so the same trigger always yields the same typed event.

Prod events need a deployed cloud app plus Sentinel, so that path is off the table without them. On harnesses with no blocking MCP, Copilot cloud for instance, the skill falls back to a poll loop with the same event contract — same behaviour, different mechanism.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-monitor -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/convex-monitor/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-monitor -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-monitor -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install convex/agent-skills convex-monitor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-monitor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/convex/agent-skills --path skills/convex-monitor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add convex/agent-skills --skill convex-monitor -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- catch the next dev error and fix it right away
- triage a prod error through Sentinel
- stop polling logs by hand and block on an event instead
- receive a feature request and build it in the same loop
- survive a quiet stretch and go back to waiting

## Example prompts
- call wait_for_event for the project and wait for the next error
- wait for a prod_error event and triage it through sentinel
- set a wait on feature_request and build whatever arrives

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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```text
---
name: convex-monitor
description: "Watch for the next dev/prod error or request in a Convex app and react to it."
---

<!-- GENERATED from convex-agents content/capabilities/monitor.json — do not edit by hand. -->

# Watch for the next thing to react to

Block on the next typed event instead of polling. Races local error logs, deployment subscriptions, and Sentinel prod-error rows; returns the first to fire (or a quiet heartbeat).

## Workflow

1. Call `wait_for_event` with {project_dir, event_kinds, timeout_ms}.
2. On kind=convex_error/next_error: decode and fix it. On kind=prod_error: triage (see sentinel) and fix. On kind=feature_request: build it. On kind=quiet: loop.
3. Where a harness has no blocking MCP (e.g. Copilot cloud), the pack runs a poll loop with the SAME event contract — same behavior, different mechanism.

## Rules

- Prefer the blocking tool; fall back to a poll loop only where blocking MCP is weak.
- The event schema is fixed and versioned — the same trigger yields the same typed event.
- Prod events (kind=prod_error) require a deployed cloud app plus Sentinel.
```
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© convex · Apache-2.0 · https://github.com/convex/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/convex-monitor/SKILL.md

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