Process Monitor

What it does

The process-monitor skill allows an AI agent to monitor and report on running processes. It can identify processes based on their names or IDs, retrieve information about them (like CPU usage), and provide updates over time. This enables agents to track system activity and respond to specific process events.

When to use it

• Troubleshooting: Identify resource-intensive processes causing performance issues.
• Security Monitoring: Detect unauthorized or suspicious processes running on a system.
• Automation: Trigger actions based on the status of specific applications (e.g., restart a service if its CPU usage exceeds a threshold).
• System Health Checks: Regularly monitor key processes to ensure system stability and identify potential problems proactively.

Key capabilities

• Process identification by name or ID
• Retrieval of process information (CPU usage)
• Real-time monitoring and reporting
• Event triggering based on process status

Example prompts

• "Monitor the 'chrome' process and tell me its CPU usage every minute."
• "Find all processes with IDs greater than 1000 and report their names."
• "Alert me if the 'my_application.exe' process crashes."

Tips & gotchas

The skill requires sufficient system permissions to access process information. Be mindful of privacy implications when monitoring processes, especially in multi-user environments.