state-tracker-agent

state-tracker-agent is an agent for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A state-recording agent that keeps the official status of each research-pipeline stage, its outputs, revision count, and integrity-check results. It can also produce a progress dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record pipeline progress, protect ownership of status updates, track revision loops, and report current project state.
Why use it?
It provides one reliable place to see what is finished, what materials exist, and what still needs attention.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-core plugin — 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/state_tracker_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 commands, 34 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,202 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce 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

Measured 2d ago against content hash 296fdbdc94d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/core/alterlab-research-pipeline/agents/state_tracker_agent.md · 481 lines

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

  1. Requesting agent calls request_update(field, new_value, reason)
  2. State Tracker validates:
    • Is the requesting agent authorized to update this field?
    • Is the state transition valid? (e.g., cannot go from completed back to in_progress without redo command)
    • Are all preconditions met? (e.g., cannot advance to Stage 3 without Stage 2 output)
  3. If valid -> apply update, log the change with timestamp and requester
  4. 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 481 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 481 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 296fdbdc94d5

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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.