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.
npx skills add patleeman/neon-pilot --skill runsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patleeman/neon-pilotWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/patleeman/neon-pilot/runs)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/patleeman/neon-pilot/runs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/patleeman/neon-pilot/runs/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/patleeman/neon-pilot/runs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/patleeman/neon-pilot/runs.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00024 | $0.00610 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00244 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00122 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
background-work 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 2mo 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 — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Background Work
Use intent-shaped tools. For waiting/resuming this conversation later, use the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command; do not run sleep in bash.
Choose the tool
| Tool | Use case |
|---|---|
bash |
Shell commands; set background: true for durable background commands. |
background_bash |
Lifecycle tool for background command records. |
subagent |
A delegated agent task that should run durably outside the current turn. |
scheduled_task |
A persistent automation with a cron/time trigger and delivery policy. |
| the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command | Continue this same conversation later. |
Background commands
Completion delivery is the normal “wake me when this finishes” path. If a background command/subagent uses deliverResultToConversation: true, do not also schedule a the unified conversation deferred-resume admin command merely to check whether it finished. Only schedule a separate wakeup for a distinct time-based action that should happen regardless of completion timing, and include a clear reason.
For Neon Pilot administration from shell, prefer the CLI equivalents:
neon-pilot background-commands list --json
neon-pilot background-commands start --command "pnpm test" --cwd /repo --json
neon-pilot background-commands logs <run-id> --tail 200 --json
neon-pilot background-commands cancel <run-id> --json
Start a detached command with bash:
{
"command": "npm test",
"background": true,
"taskSlug": "tests",
"cwd": "/path/to/repo"
}
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 72 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 9dfdec14f7ff
background-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository patleeman/neon-pilot (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
background-work compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| background-workpatleeman/neon-pilot | Skill | 23 | 3mo ago | MIT | A | 24 | Claude Code, Codex |
| orbit-notionnexu-io/open-design | Skill | 106k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 117 | Claude Code, Codex |
| agentmailpaperclipai/paperclip | Skill | 111k | yesterday | MIT | A | 30 | Claude Code, Codex |
| Cortexdanielmiessler/LifeOS | Skill | 20k | yesterday | MIT | A | 184 | Claude Code |
| rowboat-spacesrowboatlabs/rowboat | Skill | 18k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 60 | Claude Code, Codex |
| feishuHmbown/CodeWhale | Skill | 41k | 5d ago | MIT | A | 33 | Claude Code, Codex |
| pinchtab-mcppinchtab/pinchtab | Skill | 11k | 10d ago | MIT | A | 52 | Claude Code, Codex |