Observe Before Editing
SkillAI & modelsLets your agent inspect a file's current state before making any edits to it.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Observe Before Editing skill
About this capability
Observe Before Editing
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 in .claude/skills/observe-before-editing/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Before editing code to fix a bug, confirm what the system actually produced.
Pattern
Outputs don't lie. Code might. Check outputs first.
DO
- Check if expected directories exist:
ls -la .claude/cache/ - Check if expected files were created:
ls -la .claude/cache/learnings/ - Check logs for errors:
tail .claude/cache/*.log - Run the failing command manually to see actual error
- Only then edit code
DON'T
- Assume "hook didn't run" without checking outputs
- Edit code based on what you think should happen
- Confuse global vs project paths (check both:
.claude/and~/.claude/)
Source Sessions
- a541f08a: Token limit error was invisible until manual run revealed it
- 6a9f2d7a: Looked in wrong cache path (
~/.claude/vs.claude/), assumed hook failure - a8bd5cea: Confirmed hook worked by finding output files in project cache
- 1c21e6c8: Verified Artifact Index indexing by checking DB file exists
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 4k
- Forks
- 300
- Last commit
- Jan 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
observe-before-editing- Source
- github.com/parcadei/continuous-claude-v3