Timeline Calibration

Timeline Calibration is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wrg32786/aigent-os. It costs 56 tokens per session (919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for correcting overly long estimates made by an agent. It replaces human-developer time assumptions with estimates based on tool calls, context loading, decision rounds, and session cycles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever an agent is about to estimate how long a coding or research task will take.
Why use it?
It helps set more realistic expectations for agent-assisted work and avoids planning around inflated hours or days.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it whenever an agent is about to estimate how long a coding or research task will take.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wrg32786/aigent-os/timeline-calibration
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 wrg32786/aigent-os --skill timeline-calibration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wrg32786/aigent-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 919 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.00919
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00460
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured 9d ago against content hash 70fb76f0aea9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Timeline Calibration 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.

skills/timeline-calibration/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Timeline Calibration

[!danger] HARD RULE — fires whenever you're about to quote a timeline If the Caddy hint for this skill surfaces, you are about to quote a timeline using human-developer anchors. STOP. Recalibrate.

The recalibration table

You're about to say Reality Self-correct to
"hours" of work a few minutes minutes, often <5
"a couple hours" ~2-5 min "a few minutes"
"half a day" ~5-10 min "5-10 minutes"
"a day" ~10-15 min "~10 minutes this session"
"a few days" ~15-30 min "~20-30 minutes focused work"
"a week" ~30-60 min "30-60 minutes focused"
"a few weeks" ~1-2 hours "~an hour or two"

Why

  • An AI's execution speed is not what its training data anchors expected. Training data was calibrated on human-developer pair-programming or solo-dev cycles.
  • The bottleneck is NOT writing speed. It's: context-load (reading files), decision rounds with the principal, and ambiguity resolution.
  • The principal calibrates their attention around your estimates. Quoting "12 hours" for what takes 10 minutes wastes their planning capacity AND makes the agent look slow.

Calibration anchors

  • 1 file write with material in context = ~5 seconds
  • 1 file edit = ~3 seconds
  • 1 small SKILL.md = ~15 seconds
  • 1 medium concept note with cross-refs = ~20 seconds
  • 5-10 file build in parallel writes = 1-2 minutes
  • "Track of work" with 5-15 files = 2-5 minutes
  • Whole "v0.2"-class release with 30+ artifacts = 5-15 minutes
  • Multi-track release stacking (25+ files across 2 commits) = under 10 minutes wall-clock

Decision rule when about to quote a timeline

Ask: is the bottleneck me or external?

  • Me (writing files, code, notes) → divide human-dev estimate by 30-60x
  • External (waiting for principal approval, web fetches, running pipelines) → count the external clock honestly
  • Mixed → split the estimate: "5 min focused work + 10 min waiting on review"

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 70fb76f0aea9

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Timeline Calibration is a skill published in the GitHub repository wrg32786/aigent-os (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 919 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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