waits

waits is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zookanalytics/gc-toolkit. It costs 166 tokens per session (2,284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work-tracking guide for marking one task as blocked until another task or a person's decision is complete. It explains how to represent waits without leaving misleading unfinished tasks on the board.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to link tasks that depend on other tasks, request decisions or actions from people, and escalate blockers while keeping the work board accurate.
Why use it?
It prevents blocked work from appearing ready and makes clear who or what must act next. This helps teams avoid losing track of dependencies and unanswered requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to link tasks that depend on other tasks, request decisions or actions from people, and escalate blockers while keeping the work board accurate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit/waits
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 zookanalytics/gc-toolkit --skill waits
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,284 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 $0.00166 $0.02284
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00914
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00228

Measured today against content hash 8f7258ce44fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

waits 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 today.

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/waits/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Waits: when work can go

A wait is an edge onto a bead, and there is no parked state. What a person owes is a demand bead and what a pool owes is a work bead. A bead that still has work to do once that bead closes is blocked by it: a blocks edge keeps it out of bd ready until that bead closes, and then it is ready. A bead whose whole job ends when that bead closes carries an until edge to it instead, and is closed once that bead has closed. Never write triage.hold, and never leave a stamped, still bead as the record of a wait.

Each option says what the message means, who acts on it, and the one writer that sends it. The writer's --help carries its flags. The writers are the gc-toolkit pack's own scripts. gc <binding> scripts-dir prints their directory in the pack as gc loaded it, so each example calls the pack's copy inside the command itself, and runs in a fresh shell. <binding> is the name the city imports the pack under, which gc puts in front of this skill's name: gc-toolkit in gc-toolkit.waits. gc skill list prints it in this skill's FROM column.

Make a bead wait on other work

The message is that this bead does not go until that one closes. bd acts on it: the waiting bead stays out of bd ready, and once the blocker closes a routed bead is offered to its pool again. A waiting bead with no route needs an arm (below), or nothing sends it.

Writer: gc bd dep add <waiting-bead> <blocker> --type=blocks. Read the edge back with gc bd dep list <waiting-bead> --direction=down -t blocks, because a link across two stores prints success and holds nothing. When it does not read back, the blocker is in another rig's store, so remove that edge and make the bead wait on a demand in its own store that names the blocker (below), which the operator resolves once the blocker lands.

  • The two are never parent and child. bd refuses a blocks edge from a parent to its own descendant, so never file the blocker under the bead that waits on it (the work skill).
  • A pull request's anchor that waits on an open bead cannot merge until that bead closes. When a follow-up needs the PR on main, make the follow-up wait on the anchor, never the anchor on the follow-up.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. today Changed · +38 lines · +38 tokens per session 8f7258ce44fe
  2. yesterday First seen · 116 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 300b2a9f314d

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waits is a skill published in the GitHub repository zookanalytics/gc-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 2,284 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.