async-attention

async-attention is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patleeman/neon-pilot. It costs 28 tokens per session (815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for choosing where delayed follow-ups, scheduled automation, wakeups, and asynchronous results should live.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to continue a conversation later, queue or cancel follow-ups, schedule recurring automation, and return scheduled results to a thread.
Why use it?
It prevents wait requests and recurring work from being put in the wrong queue or scheduling system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to continue a conversation later, queue or cancel follow-ups, schedule recurring automation, and return scheduled results to a thread.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patleeman/neon-pilot/async-attention
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add patleeman/neon-pilot --skill async-attention
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patleeman/neon-pilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 815 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 $0.00028 $0.00815
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash a4efe14b3142, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

async-attention 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 9d 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.

extensions/system-automations/skills/async-attention/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Async Attention and Wakeups

Use the smallest scheduling surface that matches the owner of the work. For wait-then-continue requests, use the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command; do not run sleep in bash.

Choose the right surface

Need Use Durable home
Agent should continue this conversation later the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command live queue or deferred resume
Unattended automation should run later or recur scheduled_task automation store + run logs
Passive async result tied to a thread surface the owning conversation conversation/activity
Scheduled task result should come back to a thread scheduled task conversation callback task log + optional wakeup

There is no standalone tell-me-later tool. Human “tell me later” requests are same-thread follow-ups unless they need a true app-wide automation.

the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command

Use the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command when this same conversation should continue later.

Actions:

  • add — queue a follow-up
  • list — list pending follow-ups for this conversation
  • cancel — cancel a queued follow-up by listed id

For action: "add", always include trigger:

  • trigger: "after_turn" queues work after the current turn; do not include delay or at.
  • trigger: "delay" queues a later continuation; include compact duration syntax like 30s, 10m, 2h, 4h, or 1d.
  • trigger: "at" queues a later continuation for a specific timestamp or human time phrase.

Example:

{
  "action": "add",
  "trigger": "delay",
  "delay": "4h",
  "deliverAs": "followUp",
  "title": "Check release state",
  "prompt": "Wake up and check whether the release is ready. If it is still blocked, requeue instead of asking the user."
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A a4efe14b3142

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async-attention is a skill published in the GitHub repository patleeman/neon-pilot (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 815 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 2026-08-30.