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Ao Session Monitor — Development skill for Claude Code

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Properly inspect AO worker tmux sessions to detect working vs idle state.

How to install Ao Session Monitor

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jleechanorg-claude-commands-ao-session-monitor/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jleechanorg-claude-commands-ao-session-monitor && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jleechanorg/claude-commands/HEAD/.claude/skills/ao-session-monitor.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jleechanorg-claude-commands-ao-session-monitor/SKILL.md

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

What Ao Session Monitor does

name: AO Session Monitor description: Properly inspect AO worker tmux sessions to detect working vs idle state

AO Session Monitor Skill

How to check if an AO worker session is active

Claude Code renders the `❯` prompt at the bottom of the tmux pane **while the model is thinking above it**. Checking only the last 5-6 lines will produce false "idle" reports.

Correct detection method

Capture at least 20 lines: tmux capture-pane -t -p -S -20
Look for **Unicode

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