Runtime Context
Before diagnosing, load:
- Preferences:
cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.claude/plugins/data/ops-ops-marketplace}/preferences.json— check all configured channels and services - Daemon health:
cat ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/daemon-health.json— primary diagnostic input - Secrets: Verify secret resolution chain works: Doppler MCP → env → Doppler CLI → password manager
OPS ► DOCTOR
Load ops-rules before acting. Public repo (no personal data). Outbound: one draft → one approval → one send. If AskUserQuestion / Workflow are missing, follow Rule 10 in ops-rules (Hermes: numbered options / two-turn Telegram card; delegate_task).
CLI/API Reference
ops-doctor bin script
| Command | Usage | Output |
|---|---|---|
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-doctor | Run full health diagnostics | JSON with errors, warnings, tools, env_vars, registry |
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-doctor 2>/dev/null || echo '{"errors":["diagnostic_script_failed"]}' | Run with fallback | JSON or error sentinel |
Key files read by diagnostics
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/daemon-health.json | Primary daemon health input |
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA_DIR}/preferences.json | Configured channels and services |
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.claude-plugin/plugin.json | Plugin manifest validation |
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/registry.json | Project registry validation |
Phase 1 — Run diagnostics
Run the diagnostic script to get a full health report:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-doctor 2>/dev/null || echo '{"errors":["diagnostic_script_failed"],"warnings":[]}'
Parse the JSON output. Display a summary:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OPS ► DOCTOR — [timestamp] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Plugin: [version] at [plugin_root] Skills: [count] defined Agents: [count] defined Bin scripts:[count] available ERRORS [count] [list each error with description] WARNINGS [count] [list each warning with description] TOOLS [table of CLI tool availability] ENV VARS [table of env var status] Registry: [status] ([project_count] projects) Preferences:[status] Cache: [versions list] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Agent Teams support
If CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set, use Agent Teams when multiple independent fix categories are identified (e.g., manifest issues + permission issues + registry issues). This enables:
- Fix agents work in parallel on different issue categories without stepping on each other
- You can prioritize: "fix manifest errors first, then permissions"
- Agents share context so a manifest fix can inform the registry repair
Team setup (only when flag is enabled, multiple issue categories):
TeamCreate("doctor-fixers") Agent(team_name="doctor-fixers", name="fix-manifest", subagent_type="ops:doctor-agent", ...) Agent(team_name="doctor-fixers", name="fix-permissions", subagent_type="ops:doctor-agent", ...) Agent(team_name="doctor-fixers", name="fix-registry", subagent_type="ops:doctor-agent", ...)
If the flag is NOT set or only one issue category exists, use a single doctor-agent subagent.
Phase 2 — Decision
If $ARGUMENTS contains --check-only: stop here, display results only.
If there are errors or warnings:
Display: "Found [N] issues. Spawning doctor agent to auto-fix..."
Then spawn the doctor agent (or Agent Team — see above):
Agent({ subagent_type: "ops:doctor-agent", prompt: "Fix the following ops plugin issues.\n\nDIAGNOSTIC_JSON: [paste full JSON]\nPLUGIN_ROOT: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}\nCACHE_DIR: ~/.claude/plugins/cache/ops-marketplace/ops\n\nFix all errors and warnings. Re-run diagnostics after to verify.", description: "Fix ops plugin issues" })
If there are no errors and no warnings:
Display: "All checks passed. Plugin is healthy."
MCP watchdog health probe
After Phase 1 diagnostics, parse the 5f block warnings from bin/ops-doctor. The bin script emits these MCP-specific keys:
claude_json_invalid—~/.claude.jsonis not valid JSON (hard error — all MCP tooling breaks)claude_json_missing— no~/.claude.json(warning — no servers configured)mcp_stdio_cmd_missing_<name>— stdio servercommandbinary not on PATHmcp_watchdog_stale— watchdog health not updated in >1h (cron not running)mcp_watchdog_no_health— watchdog has never run (never registered)mcp_servers_degraded_long— one or more HTTP MCP servers degraded >1h
For each warning, surface a one-line fix hint:
| Warning | Fix hint |
|---|---|
claude_json_invalid | python3 -c "import json; json.load(open('$HOME/.claude.json'))" to find the syntax error |
mcp_stdio_cmd_missing_<name> | Verify the command path and install the missing binary; update ~/.claude.json if path changed |
mcp_watchdog_stale or mcp_watchdog_no_health | /ops:mcp restart to register crontab entries |
mcp_servers_degraded_long | /ops:mcp status for full detail, then /ops:mcp reauth <name> for each needs_bootstrap |
Include these warnings in the doctor-agent prompt for auto-fix where applicable (e.g., crontab registration is safe to do automatically).
Pocket health probe
After Phase 1 diagnostics, run the pocket probe if the pocket section is configured in preferences or if --verbose was passed. The bin script already includes these checks (section 5e); this section describes what the SKILL layer adds on top.
Parse the pocket block from the bin/ops-doctor JSON output. Surface any pocket-specific warnings:
pocket_health_stale_*— health file exists but mtime > 5 minutespocket_health_missing_*— health file does not existpocket_health_error_*— health file has"status": "error"pocket_tmux_missing—pocket-exectmux session not foundpocket_config_invalid_*— whatsapp-config.json or email-config.json not valid JSONpocket_email_auth—gog gmail statusnot authenticatedpocket_bridge_port— Baileys bridge port 8080 not listening
For each warning, surface a one-line fix hint:
| Warning | Fix hint |
|---|---|
pocket_health_stale_activity-notifier | launchctl kickstart -k gui/$UID/com.claude-ops.pocket-activity-notifier |
pocket_health_missing_* | bash $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/install-pocket-notifier.sh |
pocket_health_error_* | tail -30 ~/.claude/state/pocket/activity-notifier.stderr.log |
pocket_tmux_missing | Executor not running — start with python3 $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/ops-cron-pocket-executor.py |
pocket_config_invalid_whatsapp | Re-run /ops:setup pocket to write a valid whatsapp-config.json |
pocket_config_invalid_email | Re-run /ops:setup pocket to write a valid email-config.json |
pocket_email_auth | gog auth add <your-email> --services gmail |
pocket_bridge_port | launchctl kickstart -k gui/$UID/com.<user>.whatsapp-bridge |
Include pocket warnings in the doctor-agent prompt so it can auto-fix where possible.
Phase 3 — Post-fix verification
After the agent completes, re-run diagnostics:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ops-doctor 2>/dev/null
Display updated results. If errors remain, report them to the user with manual fix instructions.
Native tool usage
WebSearch — known issue lookup
When diagnostics find errors, use WebSearch to check if the issue is a known Claude Code plugin bug, MCP server issue, or configuration problem. Include links to relevant GitHub issues or docs.
WebFetch — MCP health check
For MCP servers that appear disconnected, use WebFetch to test their underlying APIs directly (e.g., https://api.linear.app/graphql with a simple query) to distinguish between "MCP broken" and "API down".


