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title: "executive-self-monitoring"
description: "Plan-anchored drift self-check for coding agents. Bundles the executive-self-monitoring skill (the 'what': re-ground in the active plan/gate before substantive work) with a per-host cadence hook (the 'when'). Not a block"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/executive-self-monitoring
last-updated: 2026-09-15
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# executive-self-monitoring
Plan-anchored drift self-check for coding agents. Bundles the executive-self-monitoring skill (the 'what': re-ground in the active plan/gate before substantive work) with a per-host cadence hook (the 'when'). Not a blocker: a periodic nudge to avoid investing effort outside the plan. Portable core: the skill only; cadence hooks are host-specific (see hooks/ for Claude Code, cursor/ for Cursor).
- Slug: executive-self-monitoring
- Publisher: David Giordano
- Repository: https://github.com/3dgiordano/agent-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/executive-self-monitoring/plugin.json
- Version: 1.3.0
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (executive-self-monitoring)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-15
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-15
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/executive-self-monitoring
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What executive-self-monitoring does, in the publisher's words

Plan-anchored drift self-check for coding agents. Periodically nudges the agent to go read the active plan, name the plan, quote its objective and gate, compare recent actions against them, instead of drifting into tangents, score-chasing, or "while I'm here" work.

It is a self-check, not a blocker, the plan defines the work; this just prompts the agent to re-read it.

Two pieces that install as one unit:

- Skill (skills/executive-self-monitoring/SKILL.md): the what: the 5-step re-grounding protocol and a list of domain-neutral drift signatures. This is the single source of truth; every host loads the same file.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/3dgiordano/agent-plugins/HEAD/plugins/executive-self-monitoring/README.md

## Skills

- executive-self-monitoring: Lightweight self-assessment to avoid investing effort outside the active plan. Not a gate and not a blocker, a periodic prompt to re-ground in the canonical plan/gate so work stays plan-defined. Triggers: long task, agent loop, multi-step reasoning, keep focus, avoid drift, stay on track, iterative…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.