OPS ► POCKET

Surfaces the Pocket voice-memo pipeline as a discoverable slash command. The pipeline was previously orphaned — 7 scripts, no entry point. This skill is the entry point.

For the full architecture reference (every state file, every script, every failure mode) see STATUS.md sibling to this file.

Runtime Context

Before any route runs, resolve:

1. State dir: ${POCKET_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/state/pocket}. Every file mentioned below is relative to this dir.
2. Plugin root: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} — used to invoke pipeline scripts under scripts/.
3. Daemon health snapshot: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/daemon-health.json — surface its pocket-* service status if present.

If $POCKET_STATE_DIR does not exist on disk, the pipeline has never been bootstrapped — route to setup automatically (no autoroute on status if the user explicitly asked for status).

Routing table

Parse $ARGUMENTS and route immediately. First token decides the route.

Anything else: print the routing table and exit.

Route — status (default)

The default route. Read state files, render a compact dashboard.

Read these — in parallel where possible:

STATE_DIR="${POCKET_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/state/pocket}"

# Daemon plist liveness
launchctl list com.claude-ops.pocket-activity-notifier 2>/dev/null \
  | awk '/PID/{print "pid="$3} /LastExitStatus/{print "exit="$3}'

# Supervisor tmux session
tmux has-session -t pocket-exec 2>/dev/null && echo "tmux=up" || echo "tmux=down"
tmux list-windows -t pocket-exec 2>/dev/null | wc -l

# Queue depths (line counts)
wc -l < "$STATE_DIR/pending-triage.jsonl" 2>/dev/null
wc -l < "$STATE_DIR/tasks.jsonl" 2>/dev/null
wc -l < "$STATE_DIR/spawn-ledger.jsonl" 2>/dev/null
wc -l < "$STATE_DIR/supervisor-out-queue.jsonl" 2>/dev/null

# Completed reports
ls "$STATE_DIR/executor-results/"*.done.json 2>/dev/null | wc -l

# Last pull cursor
cat "$STATE_DIR/cursor.txt" 2>/dev/null

# Last 3 notifications (from out-queue-sent.jsonl)
tail -n 3 "$STATE_DIR/out-queue-sent.jsonl" 2>/dev/null

# Per-component health
for h in .activity-notifier-health .out-queue-health .email-bridge-health .health; do
  cat "$STATE_DIR/$h" 2>/dev/null
done

Output format (desktop):

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 OPS ► POCKET — [timestamp]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

DAEMONS
  watcher          [running|stalled]    last tick [Xs ago]
  triage           [running|idle]
  executor watchdog [running|stalled]   tmux pocket-exec=[up|down] (N windows)
  activity-notifier [running|stalled]   pid [N]
  out-queue        [running|disabled|error]
  email-bridge     [running|disabled|error]

QUEUES
  pending-triage   [N items]            (awaiting ACT/SKIP decision)
  tasks.jsonl      [N items]            (canonical task store)
  spawn-ledger     [N spawns]
  out-queue        [N pending]
  executor-results [N .done.json]

CURSORS
  watcher last pull   [ISO timestamp from cursor.txt]
  last completion     [latest .done.json mtime]

CHANNELS
  whatsapp         [on|off|misconfigured]   chat_jid=[masked tail]
  email            [on|off|misconfigured]   to=[masked]

LAST 3 NOTIFICATIONS
  [N. kind type | task_id | sent_at]
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Mobile mode (Rule 7 — $SSH_CONNECTION/$SSH_CLIENT/$SSH_TTY set OR $OPS_MOBILE=1 OR $COLUMNS<80): plain text lines, no boxes, no emoji prefixes:

pocket: watcher running, exec tmux=up, notifier pid=N
queues: triage 0, tasks 12 (3 active), out 0
last pull: 5m ago. last done: 12m ago.
channels: whatsapp on, email off.

After the dashboard, use AskUserQuestion (max 4 — Rule 1) ONLY if there is something actionable (stalled daemon, pending-triage > 0, etc.). On a clean board, exit silently.

Route — setup

Delegate to the setup channel doc when it exists:

SETUP_DOC="$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/setup/channels/pocket.md"
[[ -f "$SETUP_DOC" ]] && cat "$SETUP_DOC"

If pocket.md does not exist, print the inline onboarding sequence:

1. Confirm pocket-cli (or equivalent Pocket API auth) is on PATH.
2. Drop a whatsapp-config.json and/or email-config.json under $STATE_DIR (see STATUS.md for schemas).
3. Run bash $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/install-pocket-notifier.sh to register the launchd LaunchAgent.
4. Verify with /ops:pocket status.

Per Rule 4 (background by default during setup) and Rule 2 (never delegate commands to the user) — run the install script via Bash with run_in_background: true. Per Rule 3, never auto-skip channel selection — if whatsapp-config.json and email-config.json are both missing, ask via AskUserQuestion which to configure first ([WhatsApp] / [Email] / [Both] / [Skip]).

Route — tasks

Render a single combined list. No AskUserQuestion — read-only by default.

STATE_DIR="${POCKET_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/state/pocket}"

# Pending triage (awaiting ACT/SKIP)
tail -n 50 "$STATE_DIR/pending-triage.jsonl" 2>/dev/null

# Live tasks (canonical store)
tail -n 50 "$STATE_DIR/tasks.jsonl" 2>/dev/null

# In-flight workers (windows in pocket-exec tmux, excluding _idle + supervisor)
tmux list-windows -t pocket-exec -F '#{window_name}' 2>/dev/null \
  | grep -vE '^(_idle|supervisor)$'

# Recently completed (.done.json sorted by mtime, last 10)
ls -t "$STATE_DIR/executor-results/"*.done.json 2>/dev/null | head -10

Format:

PENDING TRIAGE (N)
  [id] [created] [title]

ACTIVE TASKS (N)
  [task_id] [status] [title] [started]

IN-FLIGHT WORKERS (N)
  [tmux window name] [up since]

RECENTLY COMPLETED (last 10)
  [task_id] [duration] [report file]

Route — test (synthetic end-to-end)

Smoke-tests the full notifier → out-queue → both bridges path without going through the watcher or triage. Same flow as the manual session-level test that was run when the notifier shipped.

Steps:

1. Pre-flight: verify $STATE_DIR/whatsapp-config.json OR email-config.json has enabled: true. If neither: print not configured — run /ops:pocket setup and exit.
2. Generate a synthetic task_id like test-$(date +%s).
3. Append a tasks.jsonl entry for the synthetic task (so the notifier can title-resolve it):

   echo "{\"task_id\":\"$TID\",\"title\":\"synthetic pocket test\",\"created_at\":\"$(date -u +%FT%TZ)\",\"verdict\":\"ACT\"}" \
     >> "$STATE_DIR/tasks.jsonl"
   

4. Drop a synthetic .done.json into executor-results/:

   cat > "$STATE_DIR/executor-results/$TID.done.json" <<EOF
   {"task_id":"$TID","status":"done","completed_at":"$(date -u +%FT%TZ)","report_file":"$TID.out.md"}
   EOF
   echo "# Synthetic test report\n\nThis is a test artifact from /ops:pocket test." \
     > "$STATE_DIR/executor-results/$TID.out.md"
   

5. Manually invoke the notifier once (don't wait 60s for launchd):

   "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/ops-pocket-activity-notifier.py" --once 2>&1 | tail -20
   

   (If --once is not supported, run the script with POCKET_NOTIFIER_ONESHOT=1 env var, or just python3 ops-pocket-activity-notifier.py.)
6. Drain both bridges in parallel:

   "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/ops-pocket-out-queue.py" 2>&1 | tail -10
   "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/ops-pocket-email-bridge.py" 2>&1 | tail -10
   

7. Verify delivery — for each enabled channel:
   • WhatsApp: tail $STATE_DIR/out-queue-sent.jsonl for an entry with the synthetic task_id. (Do NOT use mcp__whatsapp__list_messages — the bridge's own sent ledger is the source of truth.)
   • Email: tail $STATE_DIR/email-bridge.log for SENT on the synthetic task_id.
8. Cleanup:

   rm -f "$STATE_DIR/executor-results/$TID.done.json" \
         "$STATE_DIR/executor-results/$TID.out.md"
   

   Leave the tasks.jsonl line (append-only log; harmless).

Report:

POCKET ► TEST
  task_id: [tid]
  whatsapp: [SENT|SKIPPED-disabled|FAIL: reason]
  email:    [SENT|SKIPPED-disabled|FAIL: reason]
  duration: [Xs]

If any channel fails, surface the last error line from the corresponding *.log and .health file.

Route — logs [N]

N="${ARG_2:-50}"
STATE_DIR="${POCKET_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/state/pocket}"

for f in activity-notifier.log run.log executor.log out-queue.log email-bridge.log; do
  echo "==> $f <=="
  tail -n "$N" "$STATE_DIR/$f" 2>/dev/null || echo "(missing)"
done

For Rule 7 mobile mode, default N=20 and skip per-file headers.

Route — restart

# 1. Kickstart the launchd activity-notifier
launchctl kickstart -k "gui/$(id -u)/com.claude-ops.pocket-activity-notifier" 2>&1

# 2. (Re)spawn the pocket-exec supervisor via the executor watchdog cron script
"$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/ops-cron-pocket-executor.py" 2>&1 | tail -10

If the launchd label is missing (notifier never installed), prompt via AskUserQuestion: [Install notifier now] / [Skip]. On install: run scripts/install-pocket-notifier.sh (Rule 4: run_in_background: true).

Route — whatsapp on|off and email on|off

Both routes mutate a small JSON config file. Never overwrite the whole file — patch in place.

STATE_DIR="${POCKET_STATE_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/state/pocket}"
CFG="$STATE_DIR/whatsapp-config.json"   # or email-config.json
ACTION="${ARG_2}"                        # on | off
mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"

if [[ ! -f "$CFG" ]]; then
  # Bootstrap empty config with enabled=false so subsequent `on` is meaningful.
  echo '{"enabled":false}' > "$CFG"
fi

case "$ACTION" in
  on)  python3 -c "import json,sys,pathlib; p=pathlib.Path('$CFG'); d=json.loads(p.read_text()); d['enabled']=True; p.write_text(json.dumps(d,indent=2))" ;;
  off) python3 -c "import json,sys,pathlib; p=pathlib.Path('$CFG'); d=json.loads(p.read_text()); d['enabled']=False; p.write_text(json.dumps(d,indent=2))" ;;
  *)   echo "usage: /ops:pocket {whatsapp|email} {on|off}"; exit 2 ;;
esac

# Echo new state
cat "$CFG"

Required keys per channel (validated by status):

• whatsapp-config.json — chat_jid (WhatsApp JID of the self-chat, e.g. <digits>@s.whatsapp.net).
• email-config.json — to (self-email address).

If on is requested but the required key is missing, switch state to enabled: false and route the user to setup via AskUserQuestion.

Rule reminders

• Rule 1: Max 4 options per AskUserQuestion. None of the routes above need more.
• Rule 2: Never delegate commands to the user — every command runs through Bash.
• Rule 3: Never auto-skip channels in setup — always ask explicitly.
• Rule 4: Background by default in setup (run_in_background: true).
• Rule 5: This skill performs NO destructive ops — no deletes, no terminates, no force-kills beyond launchctl kickstart -k (which is a graceful restart, not a wipe).
• Rule 6: No outbound comms staged from this skill except the synthetic test message in test, which goes to the operator's OWN self-chat / self-email (already enabled by the user) — not to third parties. Per-message approval rule is satisfied by the test being a no-args opt-in.
• Rule 7: Mobile mode renders plain text only — see status example.

Native tool usage

• AskUserQuestion: only when there is a real choice to make (stalled daemon → restart? missing channel config → bootstrap?). Never required on a green status.
• Skill: setup route may delegate to the setup channel doc.

See also

• STATUS.md — full architecture: 8 scripts, every state file, lifecycle, troubleshooting.
• scripts/ops-cron-pocket-watcher.py, scripts/ops-pocket-triage.py, scripts/ops-cron-pocket-executor.py, scripts/ops-pocket-activity-notifier.py, scripts/ops-pocket-out-queue.py, scripts/ops-pocket-email-bridge.py, scripts/ops-pocket-whatsapp-bridge.py.
• scripts/install-pocket-notifier.sh, scripts/com.claude-ops.pocket-activity-notifier.plist.
• templates/pocket-supervisor-prompt.md — the prompt the long-lived supervisor runs under.