subagent-metrics-bridging

subagent-metrics-bridging is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 30 tokens per session (463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A progress bridge for asynchronous subagents that turns streaming activity into task status, usage counts, analytics, and notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to show subagent progress, token and tool-use counts, completion states, final results, and warnings while a task runs.
Why use it?
It keeps the host task's live state consistent and ensures completion, diagnostics, and notifications happen in a reliable order.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to show subagent progress, token and tool-use counts, completion states, final results, and warnings while a task runs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/subagent-metrics-bridging
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ychampion/cskill-agents --skill subagent-metrics-bridging
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 $0.00030 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash 161e5785b9ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subagent-metrics-bridging 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 8d 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.

agents/claude-code/skills/subagent-metrics-bridging/SKILL.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Subagent Metrics Bridging

Domain: metrics-bridging Trigger: Use when an async subagent loop needs to feed its token/tool-use counts, progress, and completion status back into the host task/analytics stack. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed async subagent lifecycle, task-progress, and analytics bridge implementations.

Core Method

Drive the async child-agent lifecycle through one progress bridge that feeds task UI, analytics, and notifications from the same stream. As messages arrive, update visible progress, token counts, and the last-active tool so the host can show meaningful live state. When the stream finishes, finalize the result once, record analytics from that finalized snapshot, and then emit completion notifications or warnings. Heavy post-processing should happen after the task is already marked complete so diagnostics do not block the visible lifecycle.

Key Rules

  • Move the visible task status to completed or terminated before running expensive diagnostics or cleanup.
  • Derive progress, token counts, and “last tool used” from one shared tracker instead of recomputing them in multiple places.
  • Finalize the child-agent result once and use that same finalized snapshot for analytics, notifications, and partial-result handling.
  • On aborts or kills, still emit a clean closing notification so the parent task can resolve deterministically.
  • Clear agent-specific transient state after every outcome so later runs do not inherit stale progress or artifacts.

Example Application

When adding a new background worker that prefetches repo data for the user, follow this pattern to link its stream to the task UI/notification system and guarantee the analytics pipeline records its token tally even if it aborts midflight.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Don’t log the completion event before the agent result is finalized—duplicated token counts appear if you emit analytics prior to finalizeAgentTool.
  • Don’t rely on the final assistant message to always contain text; fallback logic exists inside finalizeAgentTool to pull the last text block, so duplicating that logic invites bugs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 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. 8d ago First seen · 29 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 161e5785b9ee

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subagent-metrics-bridging is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 463 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 2026-09-03.