execution_time

A measurement of how long a model call took, reported in seconds to three decimal places. Agents, groups of parallel agents, and multi-step pipelines expose their own timing information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to print the duration of one agent call, a parallel group, or an entire pipeline. Pipeline results can also show the time for each step.
Why use it?
It helps you see where time is spent and compare the speed of individual calls, parallel work, or pipeline steps.

Agent

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/the-teacher/active_harness/execution_time
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-teacher/active_harness
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 145 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 $0.00000 $0.00145
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00072
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 2d ago against content hash e2e53a4c6b7d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

execution_time 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.

docs/agents/execution_time.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Execution Time

Every object that makes an LLM call exposes #execution_time (seconds, rounded to 3 decimal places).

# Agent — execution_time is on the result
agent.call
puts agent.result.execution_time    # => 1.352

# Tribunal — wall time for all agents running in parallel
tribunal.call
puts tribunal.execution_time        # => 0.94

# Pipeline — total wall time across all steps that ran
pipeline.call
puts pipeline.execution_time        # => 3.12

# Per step
pipeline.steps.each do |step_name, _executor, result|
  puts "#{step_name}: #{result.execution_time}s"
end
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 · 23 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e2e53a4c6b7d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

execution_time is an agent published in the GitHub repository the-teacher/active_harness (89 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 145 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.