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Bar Doctor — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Live health check — is BAR Observatory's recorder actually working, and what did it capture.

How to install Bar Doctor

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/bar181-bar-observatory-bar-doctor/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/bar181-bar-observatory-bar-doctor && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bar181/bar-observatory/HEAD/commands/bar-doctor.md -o ~/.claude/skills/bar181-bar-observatory-bar-doctor/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Bar Doctor does

name: bar-doctor description: Live health check — is BAR Observatory's recorder actually working, and what did it capture?

$ARGUMENTS

Run BAR Observatory's live diagnostic — distinct from the deterministic report, this answers "is the recorder healthy right now?" not "what happened in this session?"

Determine the database path from $ARGUMENTS, defaulting to .bar/ambient.sqlite. If no database has been initialized yet, run bar doctor with no argument — it still reports on th

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