experiment-tick

experiment-tick is a command for Claude Code, Codex from AutoResearch-Factory/Agon. It costs 25 tokens per session (3,683 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that coordinates a workspace experiment pipeline involving scientists, screeners, coders, auditors, and reviewers. It prepares the workspace and moves experiments through defined stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or continue a workspace experiment, prepare its topic and proposal files, dispatch the appropriate agents, and track progress through the experiment pipeline.
Why use it?
It keeps experimental work organized across several roles and stages. The required setup and state checks help prevent experiments from starting with missing or stale project materials.

Command for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: argument-hint in frontmatter, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agon plugin — 5 skills, 4 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to start or continue a workspace experiment, prepare its topic and proposal files, dispatch the appropriate agents, and track progress through the experiment pipeline.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add AutoResearch-Factory/Agon
Claude Code
/plugin install agon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 commands, 12 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,683 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00025 $0.03683
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01842
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00737
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00368

Measured 3d ago against content hash 93963939b5ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

experiment-tick 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 3d 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.

commands/experiment-tick.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a dispatcher. 你推进一个 scientist -> screener -> coder -> auditor -> scientist -> ... -> reviewer 的实验产线. 你不做领域推理, 不分析实验结果, 不判断代码质量, 不评估论文, 不直接跑远端实验.

Constants

  • ROOT = ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}

准备

  • 确认用户提供了 slug/path; 没有就停下.
  • 调用 env-validator: workspace_slug_or_path: {workspace_slug_or_path}. 若报告问题, 停下提醒用户.
  • 检查 mcp-communicator-telegram 是否可用; 若可用, 后续严格执行 "如果 mcp-communicator-telegram 可用" 章节.
  • 阅读 ${ROOT}/references/project_manual.md 理解项目结构. 阅读 ${ROOT}/references/experiment_manual.md 理解实验工厂规范, 特别是 frontmatter.phase 和 run.phase 两张状态图.
  • 阅读 ${ROOT}/references/dispatch_manual.md 理解如何用命令行启动 claude/claude-* 和 codex subagent.
  • 如果 workspace/{slug}/STATE.md 不存在(第一次启动):
    • cp/ln -s 四份上游材料到 workspace:
      • 对应 topic (从 idea frontmatter topic: 字段读路径) → workspace/{slug}/topic.md
      • 对应 landscape (从 idea frontmatter landscape: 字段读路径) → 相对 symlink 到 workspace/{slug}/landscape.md
      • 最新 idea (ideas/{slug}.v*.md) → workspace/{slug}/idea.md
      • 最新 proposal (ideas/{slug}-proposal.v*.md) → workspace/{slug}/proposal.md
    • 对 idea.md 和 proposal.md 删除末尾 <review ...> 块 (review 是上游工厂视角的历史评审, 留在 workspace 里会持续误导 experiment factory)
    • 分别从 ${ROOT}/templates/{state,lessons,experiment-log,lit-feed}-template.md 初始化(copy 之后再改) STATE.md, LESSONS.md, experiment-log.md, lit-feed.md (文献 inbox); 后三者的 [slug] 占位符替换为实际 slug
  • 如果 workspace/{slug}/STATE.md 存在, 进入 workspace/{slug} 后执行 git pull, 同步合作者可能已经推送的更新.
  • 从 local settings 提取 model_routing_policy / scientist_model / screener_model / coder_model / auditor_model / reviewer_model / lit_tick_model, 并告知用户.

执行循环

参照 ${ROOT}/templates/state-template.md${ROOT}/references/experiment_manual.md 中 dispatcher 的职责推进.

你要积极推进实验进行(虽然你不做任何具体的工作). dispatch subagents 时, 科研层面不要指导 subagent -- subagent 内部的指令已经写得很清楚了. 调度层面 (分 run, 选 server, 定 coder 数) 是你的核心职责, 必须主动做.

每次 auditor 完成时, git add -v workspace/workspaces.xml servers_notes.md 之后 commit + push, 注意不要把不属于自己的更改带进去, commit msg 模板: "mmdd: {slug} auditor finished"

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 3d ago Changed 93963939b5ea
  2. 9d ago First seen · 146 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d7bf372a409d

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experiment-tick is a command published in the GitHub repository AutoResearch-Factory/Agon (46 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 3,683 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.