wait

A skill for pausing work for a requested number of minutes by waiting in separate one-minute intervals. It is intended for tasks where the assistant must resume after a timed pause.

In plain words
What is it for?
Parsing a requested wait duration, running the required minute-by-minute pauses, reporting each interval, and confirming when the wait is over.
Why use it?
It provides a controlled way to wait without relying on one long command that may time out.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/edison-watch/custom-mcps/wait
Any agent
npx skills add Edison-Watch/Custom-MCPs --skill wait
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Edison-Watch/Custom-MCPs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00022 $0.00354
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash cd372da054b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wait 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 yesterday.

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

This is a copy

100% identical to wait — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/wait/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Wait Skill

Use this skill whenever the user asks the assistant to pause or wait for a few minutes during a task. Instead of issuing a single long sleep command (which often hits the 2-minute shell timeout), run one-minute sleeps repeatedly for the requested duration.

Workflow

  1. Determine the wait time. Parse the user’s request for a duration expressed in minutes. If the request is vague, ask a clarifying question (e.g., “How many minutes should I wait?”) before running commands.

  2. Enforce sane limits. If the user requests a very large number of minutes, warn them and offer to break the wait into smaller chunks or confirm before proceeding.

  3. Execute sequential Bash sleeps. For each of the requested N minutes, issue a separate bash tool call with sleep 60. Before each call, report the upcoming iteration as executing sleep: i/N: bash sleep 60 so observers know how many sleeps will run. Avoid bundling the sleeps into a single script; the goal is to keep every sleeping command under the 2-minute timeout.

  4. Report completion. Once the loop finishes, notify the user that the wait is over and resume the primary task.

Error handling

  • If the shell command fails (e.g., sleep unavailable), report the failure and stop waiting.
  • If the user changes their mind mid-wait, cancel the remaining iterations and explain how much time was actually spent waiting.
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. yesterday First seen · 26 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A cd372da054b2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wait is a skill published in the GitHub repository Edison-Watch/Custom-MCPs (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 354 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to wait, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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