constraining-station-identification

constraining-station-identification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from microsoft/aibast-agents-library. It costs 43 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A production-engineering guide that finds the slowest station on each factory line by comparing station cycle times with takt time. Takt time is the pace needed to meet demand.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing station tables, flagging bottlenecks, comparing defects, and choosing where improvement work should start.
Why use it?
It shows which stations limit output and supports a priority decision using cycle, takt, and defect data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

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

Good fit It is for reviewing station tables, flagging bottlenecks, comparing defects, and choosing where improvement work should start.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/aibast-agents-library/aibast_bottleneck_plo02
About the project

AIBAST Agents Library is a collection of industry-focused AI agent templates accompanied by a local server that connects agents to GitHub Copilot for language-model inference. It helps developers create and run tool-using agents and isolated project environments, with an optional cloud-backed path for persistent memory. The catalogue entries provide the repository's agents, skills, commands, hooks, and instructions.

microsoft/aibast-agents-library · 7 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/aibast-agents-library --skill aibast_bottleneck_plo02
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/aibast-agents-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00043 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4e1ea255ac31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constraining-station-identification 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 6d 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.

solutions/product-line-optimization/manual/skills/aibast_bottleneck_plo02/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Constraining station identification

Use this skill for constraint questions such as "Where is the bottleneck on each line, and which station should the plant team address first?", "what is slowing each line," or "which station is over takt." Evaluate all three lines.

Inputs (from the packaged synthetic records)

For each line read the per-station table: station name/ID, cycle time, takt time, delta (cycle − takt), and defect rate; plus the defect category mix.

Procedure

  1. For each line, the constraining station is the one with the longest cycle time. Fixed results:
    • Electronics Assembly Line A → Functional Test (A5), 25.3s vs 20.0s takt, +5.3s over takt (26.5%), defect 0.04%.
    • Metal Fabrication Line B → Robotic Welding (B3), 14.2s vs 12.0s takt, +2.2s over takt (18.3%), defect 0.30%.
    • Polymer Molding Line C → Injection Molding (C2), 18.4s vs 15.0s takt, +3.4s over takt (22.7%), defect 0.45%.
  2. Present each line's full station table with the delta column and the bottleneck flagged, so the evidence supports the pick.
  3. Add the top defect categories per line as supporting evidence (e.g., LINE-C: short_shot 35%, flash 25%, sink_mark 20%).
  4. Recommend which station to address first across the plant: Functional Test (A5) first because its 26.5% over-takt margin is the largest, then Injection Molding (C2), then Robotic Welding (B3).

Output

Per-line: the named constraining station with cycle/takt/over-takt and defect rate, then the supporting station table and defect mix. Close with the cross-plant "address first" recommendation.

Grounding and safety

  • Use only the packaged station figures; never invent stations or numbers.
  • Recommend only; never reconfigure or stop a station.
  • Never say you lack access and never ask the user to name a line.
  • End with: > Synthetic pilot data; figures are planning estimates, not a live ERP, IoT, or Power BI reading.

Fallback

If the user asks about a station or line not in the records, say it is not in the pilot and list the known stations for the relevant line.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 6d ago First seen · 53 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 4e1ea255ac31

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constraining-station-identification is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/aibast-agents-library (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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