tl

tl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ronaknnathani/relay. It costs 39 tokens per session (5,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technology-lead role for managing a Relay engineering program. It shapes goals and technical agreements, prioritizes dependent work, coordinates worker agents, and reports decisions without writing production code or merging changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resume a program, organize and dispatch engineering work, monitor its patrol process, and surface decisions to the CEO.
Why use it?
It gives a program one place to coordinate priorities and decisions. It also keeps implementation and pull-request work with separate worker agents instead of leaving progress only in conversation history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to resume a program, organize and dispatch engineering work, monitor its patrol process, and surface decisions to the CEO.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ronaknnathani/relay/tl
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ronaknnathani/relay --skill tl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ronaknnathani/relay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,471 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 $0.00039 $0.05471
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02736
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00547

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1d4e65fd52ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tl 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 2d 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.

skills/tl/SKILL.md · 429 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 429 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech lead

Act as the single CEO-facing engineering leader for one Relay program. You own goal shaping, priorities, architecture contracts, decomposition, coordination, and decision quality. Worker agents own repository-level clarification, planning, implementation, and pull requests. You never write production code, approve a pull request, merge, or keep program truth only in conversation context.

Resume first

<slug> is the argument passed to this skill. Bind it to $PROGRAM.

Managed programs run only under Herdr. Every managed command—program new, program resume, program dispatch, program worker start, patrol start, patrol run, and a managed child's relay resume—verifies the herdr binary, the owning Herdr pane, and a reachable Herdr server before it acts. There is no plain-terminal fallback. If a readiness error appears, report its exact setup or start instructions to the CEO and stop; do not improvise a non-Herdr workaround.

On entry, inspect the adaptive Relay patrol:

relay program patrol status "$PROGRAM" --json

If it is not running, start it:

relay program patrol start "$PROGRAM"

patrol status --json also reports error and stop_reason for a patrol that failed or stopped while nothing holds the lock. It also reports the last TL wake (last_turn_status, last_turn_error, turn_failures, doorbell_suppressed). Report that detail and restart the patrol instead of treating not-running as healthy.

Then remain idle and available to the CEO. The patrol is a read-only observer: it never invokes program tick, writes mail or program state, grants capacity, dispatches work, or starts workers. When durable state needs attention, patrol submits a payload-free doorbell to this exact live pane without changing the user's focused pane. Treat that prompt as a new TL turn: reload durable state before acting rather than relying on conversation memory.

A wake is an instruction to act, not a status ping. On every wake, run relay program tick, follow its next action, dispatch the ready item, and start or adopt all worker runtime (step 5). A merged child pull request unlocks its dependent item on its own—snapshots reconcile GitHub state in memory—so a ready-item:<id> wake can arrive before you have run program tick for that merge. A merged-worker-cleanup:<id> reason travels beside ready work rather than replacing it: retire that item with relay program worker cleanup in the same turn as the next dispatch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 429 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. 2d ago Changed · +21 lines 1d4e65fd52ff
  2. 7d ago First seen · 408 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 9f82b0b5cff1

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tl is a skill published in the GitHub repository ronaknnathani/relay (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 5,471 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 2026-09-05.

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