long-running-agent

long-running-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from inclusionAI/AWorld. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for handling long, multi-step tasks with a changing plan, saved evidence, checkpoints, and context recovery. A checkpoint is a deliberate pause to review progress before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning and carrying out sustained tasks that require repeated tool use, milestone reviews, or replanning.
Why use it?
It helps prevent extended work from losing its goals or repeating completed steps when the task needs several dependent actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Planning and carrying out sustained tasks that require repeated tool use, milestone reviews, or replanning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inclusionai/aworld/long-running-agent
About the project

AWorld is an agent harness, meaning a framework that coordinates an AI agent’s tools, memory, context, and execution so expert knowledge can be turned into reusable skills and autonomous agents. It is for building domain-specific agent applications and workflows, with the catalogue entries representing skills, agents, and commands that operate within the AWorld ecosystem.

inclusionAI/AWorld · 1,242 stars · on GitHub · aworldagents.com

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 inclusionAI/AWorld --skill long-running-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inclusionAI/AWorld

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,513 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 $0.00061 $0.02513
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01005
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00251

Measured 3d ago against content hash 69472b4e8d88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

long-running-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 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.

aworld-skills/long-running-agent/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Long-Running Agent

Use this skill to keep a long task coherent without turning its initial plan into an inflexible script. The AWorld framework inside the wheel owns protocol state, review scheduling, and repair policy while consuming the caller-provided task deadline and capabilities. This skill guides how to plan and reason when those capabilities are enabled; the outer harness does not select those task strategies.

Read references/execution-semantics.md when creating or revising the charter and rolling plan. Read references/checkpoints-and-review.md when responding to a checkpoint, recovering context, or reviewing a candidate final result.

Bypass short work

For a direct task that can be completed and checked in a few actions, execute it normally. Do not manufacture a charter, milestones, or checkpoints merely because this skill is enabled. Adopt the long-running workflow only when the AWorld execution engine requests a checkpoint or final review, or when sustained dependent work actually needs a recoverable rolling plan.

Make the execution decision explicitly

Before the first ordinary Tool action, AWorld may expose only the internal aworld__execution_decision Tool. Use it once to record both the bounded __aworld_execution_profile and the current __aworld_plan_update checkpoint. This action changes no user state: it makes your decision recoverable, then AWorld restores the ordinary Tool surface.

Choose horizon=long only for sustained dependent work, such as multiple milestones or an expected sequence of at least several Tool actions. Choose short for direct work and unknown when the available evidence does not yet support either classification. Report a bounded estimate through confidence, milestone_count, expected_tool_actions, and verification_required, then state the next bounded action in __aworld_plan_update. This is a planning claim, never completion evidence. Tool counts and stagnation do not silently override an explicit horizon; a later model-owned checkpoint may revise it. The deadline reserve is a mechanical stop boundary, not a long-task classification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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. 3d ago First seen · 231 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 69472b4e8d88

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long-running-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository inclusionAI/AWorld (1,242 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,513 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-13.