timed-autonomous-run

timed-autonomous-run is a skill for Codex from wxmb01/codex-app-autonomous-runs. It costs 69 tokens per session (6,788 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automation guide for having Codex App work on a project for a chosen period, with pauses for risky actions and options to resume, pause, cancel, or check the run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for timed project work, automatic improvement loops, background continuation, progress checks, and human review at important decision points.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly start work or monitor routine progress during a long project task.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for timed project work, automatic improvement loops, background continuation, progress checks, and human review at important decision points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wxmb01/codex-app-autonomous-runs/timed-autonomous-run
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 wxmb01/codex-app-autonomous-runs --skill timed-autonomous-run
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wxmb01/codex-app-autonomous-runs

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,788 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 $0.00069 $0.06788
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.03394
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00679

Measured 10d ago against content hash e5c1f87adf29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timed-autonomous-run 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 10d 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.

templates/codex/skills/timed-autonomous-run/SKILL.md · 598 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 598 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Timed Autonomous Run

Use this skill to turn requests like "run this project for 2 hours", "auto-improve this project", "continue in the background", "key checkpoints only", or equivalent Chinese requests into Codex App automations.

If the user asks for Codex App-side no-pause, uninterrupted, no-idle, "not even one second of pause", 30-hour continuous work, or equivalent, do not rely on Codex App heartbeat automations as the primary execution mechanism. Heartbeat automations are timed wakeups, not permanent workers. Do not switch to CLI/local runner for this requirement.

For App-only uninterrupted requests, run as one long active Codex App work session: stay in the current thread, continue using tools, editing, validating, self-reviewing, and reporting progress until the requested duration expires, the goal is complete, or a human checkpoint is required. Do not send a final answer just because one step is done.

Core Policy

  • Use Codex App automations directly when the task is compatible with scheduled wakeups.
  • Exception: for explicit App-only no-pause or long continuous runs, use a long active App thread session, not heartbeat or CLI/local runner.
  • Prefer one focused automation per project/task. Do not use one global heartbeat for every project.
  • For short manual timed runs, use a thread heartbeat with the target path and stop count in the prompt.
  • For recurring long-term maintenance, use a project/cron automation with cwds; use executionEnvironment = "worktree" for Git repositories.
  • Before creating anything, check existing automations. Update a matching automation instead of creating a duplicate.
  • If the target folder is missing, empty, or clearly not a project, ask for the real project path instead of creating a useless automation.
  • A user request for a timed autonomous project run of 1 hour or more is explicit authorization to start read-only reviewer subagents for review work. Do not require separate wording such as "start a subagent" or "parallel agent" before using the required review lane.
  • For 1 hour or longer App-only/timed project runs, launch the reviewer lane at the start of the run. If the target requires orientation first, do only the minimum path/git/stack/risk scan needed to write a useful reviewer prompt, then start the reviewer in that same first cycle before the first implementation edit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 598 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 10d ago First seen · 598 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A e5c1f87adf29

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timed-autonomous-run is a skill published in the GitHub repository wxmb01/codex-app-autonomous-runs (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 6,788 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 2026-08-31.

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