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 technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins --skill wait-for-itgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-pluginsWrote 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/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it/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/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/wait-for-it.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 | $0.00244 | $0.02271 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00098 | $0.00908 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00454 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00227 |
Grade A, and why
wait-for-it 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 24d 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 — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
wait-for-it
Turn "tell me when X happens" into a shell probe that emits only when X actually happens.
The failure this exists to prevent
A scheduled task or a dynamic /loop re-evaluates a prompt every tick. A
tick where nothing happened still costs a full model turn and still emits a
message. Observed: a 26-second Opus turn whose entire output was "No new hits."
Monitor and Bash(run_in_background) cost zero tokens while nothing is
happening, because they run a command and only your printed lines become
notifications.
Step 1: pick the tool
| What the user wants | Use |
|---|---|
| One notification total, then done | Bash with run_in_background: true, running watch-loop.sh --once |
| One per occurrence, indefinite | Monitor with timeout_ms at the max, re-armed on each expiry |
| One per occurrence, until a known time/tick budget runs out | Monitor, with --max-ticks set from that budget |
| One per occurrence, until the target reaches a known terminal state | Monitor with timeout_ms at the max, re-armed on each expiry, open-ended (no --once/--max-ticks) — watch-loop.sh has no "stop when terminal" flag, so judge completion from the emitted lines and stop the Monitor yourself with TaskStop |
| Must survive the session ending | Stop. See "The session ceiling" below. |
Ask which, if it is not obvious. "Ping me when the first hits come in" is
ambiguous between row 1 and row 2: the user says first, which sounds
one-shot, but may want every subsequent one too. Do not default to Monitor
because it is the tool with "monitor" in the name. And do not reach for
--once just because a scenario has a "known end" — --once stops after the
first event, not after the target finishes.
Every Monitor expires after timeout_ms (default 5 minutes, capped at 30).
Set it to the max for anything that could outlast the default, and when the
expiry notice arrives, re-arm with the same probe. Re-arming takes a fresh
baseline, so compare the new armed, baseline= line against the last state
you saw: if it differs, the change happened during the gap, and that is an
event. For row 3, size --max-ticks against the time left, not the original
budget.
What ships with it
6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 24d ago First seen · 164 lines · 244 tokens per session scan A 5eb78e80a05b
wait-for-it is a skill published in the GitHub repository technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 244 tokens to every session and 2,271 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-10-17.
wait-for-it compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wait-for-ittechnicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins | Skill | 12 | today | MIT | A | 244 | Claude Code |
| doc-bootstrappingVidyFoo/antigravity-skill-engine | Skill | 13 | 2mo ago | MIT | A | 30 | Claude Code, Codex |
| pypet-snippetsfabiandistler/agents | Skill | 2 | today | none | A | 42 | Claude Code, Codex |
| scenario-zbrush-expertscenario-labs/skills | Skill | 3.6k | today | MIT | A | 124 | Claude Code |
| suggest-automationsn8n-io/n8n | Skill | 210k | today | none | A | 87 | Claude Code, Codex |
| customer-journey-mapmohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills | Skill | 1.5k | today | MIT | A | 86 | Claude Code, Codex |
| design-handoff-briefmohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills | Skill | 1.5k | today | MIT | A | 83 | Claude Code |