# heartbeat

Checks scheduled skill runs, open PRs, and urgent issues. Request a priority brief to see what needs attention today.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 783
- Author: aeonfun
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aeonfun/aeon/tree/HEAD/skills/heartbeat/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/heartbeat

## What it does

By default, heartbeat reads run data from `memory/cron-state.json`, checks open PRs and urgent issues with `gh`, and reviews follow-up notes in `memory/MEMORY.md`. It compares scheduled skills in `aeon.yml` with their run state and refreshes the public status page.

Set a focus area such as `crypto`, or use `brief` or `brief:<area>` for a priority brief. That branch ranks three items for today and sends the report through `./notify` and email. Each run also reads `memory/MEMORY.md` and the previous two days of logs for context.

A skill that has not finished its first run is treated as warming up, not as a failure. The current heartbeat run is excluded from the stuck check, so it cannot flag itself just for being in progress. GitHub checks use `gh pr list` and `gh issue list`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill heartbeat -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill heartbeat -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill heartbeat -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aeonfun/aeon heartbeat
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill heartbeat -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aeonfun/aeon --path skills/heartbeat
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aeonfun/aeon --skill heartbeat -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/aeonfun/aeon/tree/HEAD/skills/heartbeat/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- spot skills with failed or stalled runs
- find open PRs that have stopped moving
- surface urgent GitHub issues
- compare scheduled skills with their latest successful runs
- rank today's priorities for a chosen area

## Example prompts
- Check all scheduled skill runs, open PRs, and urgent issues.
- Give me today's priority brief focused on `crypto`.
- Find stalled skill runs and list what needs attention.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: heartbeat
description: Ambient fleet-health check that surfaces anything worth attention (default), or an on-demand priority brief - the 3 things to focus on, why now, and what moved (var=brief)
scorable: false  # meta skill: no gradable output, skip the post-run quality scorer
metadata:
  title: Heartbeat
  category: core
  var: ""  # ""=ambient fleet check (LIVE scheduled path, unchanged); "brief"/"brief:<area>"=priority brief; any other value=ambient check focused on that area
  tags:
    - meta
  requires:
    - RESEND_API_KEY?
---
> **${var}** — selector. **Empty (default)** = the ambient fleet check — the live path a cron runs once a day; leave it empty for the scheduled run. **`brief`** = the priority brief. See the grammar below.

## Selector / `${var}` grammar

- **`` (empty)** — **Ambient check** across all skills / PRs / issues, and regenerate the public status page. This is the live, scheduled path (08:00 UTC daily); its behaviour is unchanged. Leave `${var}` empty for the cron.
- **`<area>`** (any non-empty value that is not `brief`, e.g. `crypto`, `prs`) — **Ambient check**, with the checks focused on that area (original heartbeat focus-area behaviour).
- **`brief`** — **Priority brief**: rank the 3 things to focus on today, why now, and what moved since yesterday; send via `./notify` + email.
- **`brief:<area>`** (e.g. `brief:crypto`) — **Priority brief** biased toward `<area>`.

## Shared setup (every run)

Read `memory/MEMORY.md` and the last 2 days of `memory/logs/` for context.

Parse `${var}` to pick the branch:
- **starts with `brief`** (i.e. `brief` or `brief:<area>`) → run the **Priority brief** branch. Any text after `brief:` is the emphasis area.
- **otherwise** (empty, or any other value) → run the **Ambient check** branch. A non-empty value is the focus area; empty runs all checks.

The two branches are mutually exclusive — run exactly one per invocation.

---

## Ambient check  (default — empty `${var}`; the LIVE scheduled path)

If `${var}` is set to a focus area, focus checks on that specific area.

### Checks (in priority order)

#### P0 — Failed & stuck skills (check first)

Read `memory/cron-state.json`. **If the file is missing or empty** (e.g. a fresh fork whose scheduler hasn't written it yet), treat state as empty: report `no cron-state yet` for the P0 tier, skip the failure/degradation checks below, and still render the status page (every enabled skill shows `not yet run`). This file tracks every scheduled skill's state and quality metrics:
```json
{
  "skill-name": {
    "last_dispatch": "2026-04-06T12:00:00Z",
    "last_status": "dispatched|success|failed",
    "last_success": "2026-04-06T12:05:00Z",
    "last_failed": "2026-04-05T12:03:00Z",
    "total_runs": 10,
    "total_successes": 8,
    "total_failures": 2,
    "consecutive_failures": 0,
    "success_rate": 0.80,
    "last_quality_score": 4,
    "last_error": "error signature text"
  }
}
```
````
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