research-lane-coordinator

research-lane-coordinator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination workflow for research split across multiple sessions or people. It tracks questions, evidence, limits, owners, and next steps, then connects completed work to pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reconciles current code, pull requests, active contributors, and saved experiments; assigns research lanes; and maintains a progress record for each goal.
Why use it?
It helps preserve unfinished goals and distinguish research findings, accepted changes, merged code, and verified deployment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the agent-traffic-control plugin — 124 skills shipped together

Good fit It reconciles current code, pull requests, active contributors, and saved experiments; assigns research lanes; and maintains a progress record for each goal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/research-lane-coordinator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control --skill research-lane-coordinator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-traffic-control, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 124 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,007 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 $0.00026 $0.01007
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00403
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00101

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fe16ccfecfd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-lane-coordinator 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 1mo 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.

plugins/agent-traffic-control/skills/research-lane-coordinator/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Garden

The stable invocation name remains research-lane-coordinator so existing links and task prompts keep working.

Use this as a working aid, not a fixed ceremony. Scale coordination to the question; one agent is enough when work cannot profitably split. The user's goals and current repository instructions take precedence over examples and workflow preferences here.

Start from the real state

Read the owner's goals and latest handoff, then reconcile relevant current code, merged work, open PRs, active writers and saved experiments. Keep one progress record linking each original goal to its evidence, limitation, owner and next action. A side discovery must not erase an unfinished goal.

For lane ownership, worker briefs and the boundary with a separate PR-queue coordinator, read coordination. Use the project's existing queue and release procedure. Research acceptance, merged content and verified deployment are separate claims.

For model choice, reasoning escalation, context reuse and fan-out cost, read dispatch and effort. These are choices within the host and owner’s permissions, not a fixed model ladder.

Explore different questions in parallel

Select independent angles that could change the decision: for example, whether the measurements represent the intended outcome; whether better alternatives can be constructed; whether a learned selector chooses better alternatives; and whether data/feedback reaches the next experiment intact. These are examples, not mandatory lanes.

Give each worker a bounded question, pinned baseline and inputs, owned files, evidence required, resource limit and stop condition. Include relevant prior failures and owner corrections. Use small briefs and durable artifacts rather than copying the full session into every worker. Never override a worker's higher-priority instructions to save time. Honor the host's delegation and model-selection permissions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines fe16ccfecfd3
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 8946b3ef15fe
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A f39bbd056369

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research-lane-coordinator is a skill published in the GitHub repository wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,007 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 2026-09-13.

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