monitor-experiment
A utility for tracking Beaker experiment status and automatically retrieving logs upon completion.
Install
mkdir -p .claude/skills/monitor-experiment && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/2679" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/monitor-experiment && rm skill.zipInstalls to .claude/skills/monitor-experiment
Activation
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Monitor Beaker experiments until completion. Use when the user asks to monitor, check, or track a Beaker experiment.Key capabilities
- →Poll Beaker experiment status
- →Detect experiment completion
- →Report success or failure status
- →Fetch logs for failed experiments
- →Stream logs in real-time
How it works
The skill periodically polls the Beaker API for an experiment's status until it exits, then conditionally retrieves logs if the exit code is non-zero.
Inputs & outputs
When to use monitor-experiment
- →Monitor experiment progress
- →Check Beaker job status
- →Retrieve logs for failed experiments
- →Automate experiment tracking
About this skill
Monitor Beaker Experiment
Instructions
When monitoring a Beaker experiment:
- Get the experiment status using
beaker experiment get <experiment-id> - Check if the experiment has completed by looking at
status.exited - If still running, wait 30 seconds and check again
- When complete:
- If exitCode is 0: Report success
- If exitCode is non-zero: Fetch and display logs with
beaker experiment logs <experiment-id>
- Continue monitoring until the experiment finishes or the user asks you to stop
Examples
Check experiment status:
beaker experiment get 01KCW39T5JBZTYV69BXHWJJ83P
Get experiment logs on failure:
beaker experiment logs 01KCW39T5JBZTYV69BXHWJJ83P
Stream logs in real-time for running experiments:
beaker experiment logs --follow 01KCW39T5JBZTYV69BXHWJJ83P
When not to use it
- →Monitoring non-Beaker jobs
- →Local process tracking
Prerequisites
Limitations
- →Only supports Beaker experiments
- →Requires active network connection to Beaker
How it compares
It replaces manual polling and log retrieval with an automated loop that handles status checking and error reporting.
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