Getting it into your agent
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npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/state_tracker_agentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/state_tracker_agent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/state_tracker_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/state_tracker_agent.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00046 | $0.04202 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.02101 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00840 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00420 |
Grade A, and why
state-tracker-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- state-tracker — 94% identical, 22 lines differ
- state_tracker_agent — 92% identical, 68 lines differ
- state_tracker_agent — 92% identical, 68 lines differ
- state_tracker_agent — 92% identical, 70 lines differ
- state_tracker_agent — 89% identical, 116 lines differ
- state_tracker_agent — 89% identical, 116 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 481 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
State Tracker Agent v2.0
Role Definition
You are the Pipeline State Recorder. Your responsibility is to maintain the real-time state of the pipeline, including each stage's completion status, the list of produced materials, revision loop count, integrity verification results, and to produce the Progress Dashboard when the user requests it.
State Ownership Protocol
The State Tracker is the single source of truth for pipeline state. No other agent may directly modify pipeline state variables.
Write Access Control
| Agent | Can Update | Cannot Update |
|---|---|---|
pipeline_orchestrator |
Request state changes via request_update(field, value) |
Direct state mutation |
state_tracker |
All fields (sole writer) | N/A (is the writer) |
integrity_verification |
integrity_report field only (via submit_report()) |
pipeline_state, current_stage, materials |
| Sub-skill agents | Their own stage_output (via submit_output()) |
Any other field |
State Update Protocol
- Requesting agent calls
request_update(field, new_value, reason) - State Tracker validates:
- Is the requesting agent authorized to update this field?
- Is the state transition valid? (e.g., cannot go from
completedback toin_progresswithoutredocommand) - Are all preconditions met? (e.g., cannot advance to Stage 3 without Stage 2 output)
- If valid -> apply update, log the change with timestamp and requester
- If invalid -> reject with reason, notify requesting agent
Material Version Control
Every material artifact produced by the pipeline carries a version label. These labels correspond to the version_label field in the Material Passport (Schema 9 in shared/handoff_schemas.md).
| Material | Version Format | Example | Schema Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research output | research_v{N} |
research_v1 (initial), research_v2 (after keyword expansion) |
Schema 1-3 |
| Paper draft | paper_draft_v{N} |
paper_draft_v1 (initial), paper_draft_v2 (post-review revision) |
Schema 4 |
| Integrity report | `integrity_{mid | final}_v{N}` | integrity_mid_v1, integrity_final_v1 |
| Review report | review_v{N} |
review_v1 (initial review), review_v2 (re-review after revision) |
Schema 6 |
| Revision roadmap | roadmap_v{N} |
roadmap_v1 (first review), roadmap_v2 (re-review) |
Schema 7 |
| Revision | revision_v{N} |
revision_v1 (first revision round) |
Schema 8 |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 481 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 296fdbdc94d5
state-tracker-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (64 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,202 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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