condition-based-waiting

condition-based-waiting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from New1Direction/korgex. It costs 20 tokens per session (309 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for waiting until a specific condition is true instead of pausing for a guessed amount of time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when waiting for a server, file, process, log message, status change, or other readiness signal.
Why use it?
It prevents flaky tests, unnecessary delays, and programs hanging forever while waiting for something that never happens.

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/new1direction/korgex/condition-based-waiting
Any agent
npx skills add New1Direction/korgex --skill condition-based-waiting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/New1Direction/korgex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 309 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00020 $0.00309
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00154
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 5d ago against content hash e18f4b9236c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

condition-based-waiting 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 5d 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.

src/skills_builtin/condition-based-waiting/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

A fixed sleep is a guess: too short and it's flaky, too long and it's slow. Wait for the actual condition that tells you the thing is ready.

  1. Identify the real signal. What concretely indicates readiness? A port accepting connections, a line in a log, a file existing, an HTTP 200, a process exiting, a status field flipping.
  2. Poll the signal with a timeout. Loop: check the condition → if true, proceed → else short wait and retry, up to a sensible deadline. Fail loudly on timeout with a useful message, don't hang forever.
  3. Prefer event/blocking APIs when available (wait-for-exit, a readiness probe, an inotify/watch) over polling.
  4. In tests, never sleep to fix flakiness — synchronize on the event (a barrier, a future, a readiness callback). A sleep that "fixes" a flaky test just hides the race.
  5. Make the timeout and the polled condition explicit in the code so the next reader knows what's being awaited and for how long.

Red flag: sleep(5) "to be safe". That's a race waiting to happen — wait on the condition instead.

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. 5d ago First seen · 26 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A e18f4b9236c7

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condition-based-waiting is a skill published in the GitHub repository New1Direction/korgex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 309 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.