Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leopu00/job-hunter-teamnpx agentmods add skills/leopu00/job-hunter-team/throttle-ackWrote 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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00113 | $0.00813 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00407 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00163 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00081 |
Grade A, and why
throttle-ack 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
throttle-ack — sign the wake-up, then get back to work
throttle-ack <your-name>
First command of every wake-up. Then go straight back to your loop — the ack is a signature, not a report.
Why you and not the engine
The throttle engine writes two of the three states: IN_THROTTLE when you
register a pause, NOTIFIED when it has sent you the wake-up over tmux. The last
step, NOTIFIED → ACTIVE, is only yours.
That asymmetry is the whole point. Every watchdog in this system shares one blind
spot: looking at a tmux pane, idle and blocked are indistinguishable. With
your signature they stop being indistinguishable:
| flag | meaning | anomaly if it lasts |
|---|---|---|
IN_THROTTLE |
legitimate wait | no — the engine knows how long |
NOTIFIED |
wake-up sent, ack awaited | yes → escalation after N min |
ACTIVE |
you are working | judged against your DB output |
A flag stuck on NOTIFIED is not "maybe idle": the wake-up arrived and nobody
answered. That is a measurement, not a guess, and the watchdog escalates it to
the Capitano.
The rules
- First command, always. Before reading your queue, before any tool, before answering anyone.
- A daily halt wins over the wake. The command checks
$JHT_HOME/logs/daily-halt.flagatomically with the ack. If it printsDAILY_HALT_ACTIVE, do not work and do not message the Capitano: close the turn. The engine keeps the timer armed and will wake you after the flag goes. - Then work immediately. Acknowledging and then sitting idle produces a fake "queue empty" that misleads the Capitano and the pacing. A wake-up is a signal to work.
- Do not use it to end a pause early. An ack sent while your timer is still running is refused (exit 1): if you could close the flag whenever you liked, the throttle would go back to being something you decide.
- You do not need to know how long you slept, and the command does not tell you.
Exit codes
0— flag onACTIVE(idempotent: acking twice is harmless)1— ack refused because your pause is not over or daily halt is active: close your turn, the engine will wake you. Or invalid arguments / engine missing.
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 70 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 13868fa52362
throttle-ack is a skill published in the GitHub repository leopu00/job-hunter-team (49 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 813 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.
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