stations

stations is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for splitting genuinely independent engineering tasks among concurrent agents. It explains how to group symptoms by shared cause before assigning work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when several bugs, subsystems, repositories, or unrelated failures need triage and parallel investigation.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated effort and prevents agents from making conflicting changes to different files that are affected by the same underlying bug.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the skillet plugin — 39 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when several bugs, subsystems, repositories, or unrelated failures need triage and parallel investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/stations
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.

Any agent
npx skills add escoffier-labs/skillet --skill stations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for stations

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for stations

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,054 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 $0.00062 $0.01054
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00527
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00105

Measured 10d ago against content hash 370069f71394, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stations 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 10d 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.

skillet/skills/stations/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

stations

A kitchen runs fast because each station cooks its own dish: garde manger does not wait for the grill. But the speed comes from the cuts being made before service, and two cooks at one board ruin both dishes. This skill is the expeditor's fan-out: deciding what is genuinely separate work, giving each station a complete ticket, and tasting everything together before it leaves.

Core principle: parallelism is earned by proving independence, not assumed from the symptom list. The fan-out is the last step of triage, never the first move.

Triage before any dispatch

The expensive mistake is dispatching one agent per symptom. Symptoms group by root cause, and a refactor that broke four things usually broke two things twice.

  1. Cluster by suspected cause, not by file. Two failures in different test files that both touch the same layer (the same data shape, the same recent change) are one cluster until proven otherwise. Check what actually changed (git log, the refactor's diff) before declaring anything independent. Symptoms living in different files is not independence; it is the same bug crashing in two places.
  2. One cluster, one station. A shared root cause dispatched to two agents buys two local symptom patches that each make their own test green and disagree with each other - one patches the data producer, the other patches a consumer, and the suite is green while the design is incoherent. The cluster goes to a single agent with the whole picture, applying refire's root-cause discipline inside.
  3. Check the write sets. Stations that would edit the same files do not run concurrently: serialize them, or give each its own worktree (prefer the harness's native worktree tool; verify a manual worktree directory is gitignored). Read-only overlap is fine.
  4. Anything exploratory stays with you. If you do not yet know what is broken, that investigation is not parallelizable; fan out after it, not instead of it.

When in doubt, fewer stations. A wrongly merged cluster costs one slightly bigger ticket; a wrongly split one ships two half-fixes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 50 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 370069f71394

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stations is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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