| name | scrutiny |
| description | Use when inspecting Scrutiny SMART monitoring data for hard drive or SSD health, disk failures, SMART attributes, drive temperatures, and storage device status. Trigger on requests such as "check my drives", "are any disks failing", "show SMART errors", "what's the temperature on my drives", "is drive X healthy", or "check Scrutiny". |
Scrutiny
SMART drive-health monitoring. Talk to Scrutiny directly over its web API,
served under /api.
How to call it
Configure scrutiny_url in Claude plugin settings or Gemini extension settings.
The SessionStart/ConfigChange hook writes
${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/lab-scrutiny/config.env with mode 600.
Use an existing SCRUTINY_URL environment variable, or load it from generated
plugin config with legacy Lab env as a fallback:
source "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/lab-scrutiny/config.env" 2>/dev/null || source ~/.lab/.env
: "${SCRUTINY_URL:?Set SCRUTINY_URL to the Scrutiny base URL}"
Scrutiny's web API is unauthenticated by default.
Use the base URL without a trailing /api; the examples below append /api.
Common operations
| Intent | Request |
|---|
| Health | curl -sS "$SCRUTINY_URL/api/health" -w '\nHTTP %{http_code}\n' |
| Dashboard summary (all devices) | curl -sS "$SCRUTINY_URL/api/summary" |
| List monitored devices | curl -sS "$SCRUTINY_URL/api/summary" | python3 -c 'import sys,json;print(*json.load(sys.stdin)["data"]["summary"].keys(),sep="\n")' |
| Device SMART details | curl -sS "$SCRUTINY_URL/api/device/<wwn>/details" |
| Temperature history | curl -sS "$SCRUTINY_URL/api/summary/temp" |
The device list comes from the summary payload — GET /api/summary returns data.summary keyed by device WWN, each with its latest SMART status. Use a WWN from there for the device/<wwn>/details call.
Configuration
Verify connectivity before interpreting health output:
curl -sS "$SCRUTINY_URL/api/health" -w '\nHTTP %{http_code}\n'
When NOT to use this skill
- The user is asking about a different homelab service — load that service's skill instead.
- The user wants raw
smartctl output on a specific host — that's an SSH/shell task, not Scrutiny.
