Agent skill

Advancing Race Ticks

by GoogleCloudPlatform in GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition

A skill your agent uses when the simulator's loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners, draining the telemetry buffer, computing traffic conditions, and checking for…

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Install Advancing Race Ticks

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition --skill advancing-race-ticks -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition advancing-race-ticks --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/agents/simulator/skills/advancing-race-ticks .claude/skills/advancing-race-ticks && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
advancing-race-ticks
GitHub stars
234
Token cost
~381 tokens
SKILL.md length
159 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the simulator's loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners, draining the telemetry buffer, computing traffic conditions, and checking for…

  • Works in 3 steps: Call advance_tick AND… → Then call check_race_complete. This… → Keep responses minimal. The tick agent…
  • The simulators loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions and Tools
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Advancing Race Ticks is an agent skill from GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition. Use when the simulator's loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners, draining the telemetry buffer, computing traffic conditions, and checking for race completion. Triggered every iteration of the LoopAgent.

Its SKILL.md is about 380 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `tools.py`).

The repository describes itself as: The open source multi-agent simulation from the Developer Keynote at Google Cloud Next '26. A deployable reference architecture for autonomous AI agents using Gemini and ADK. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The simulators loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners
  • Draining the telemetry buffer
  • Computing traffic conditions
  • Checking for race completion

Example prompts

  • “/advancing-race-ticks”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Call advance_tick AND compute_traffic_conditions in the SAME response.
  2. Then call check_race_complete. This checks whether the race has reached
  3. Keep responses minimal. The tick agent uses a low-cost model with no

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 26efc1b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships script files (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Advancing Race Ticks loads about 381 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 64 tokens; SKILL.md has 159 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~64
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~381

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition at commit 26efc1b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© GoogleCloudPlatform). 159 words, ~381 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/advancing-race-ticks/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
advancing-race-ticks
description
Use when the simulator's loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners, draining the telemetry buffer, computing traffic conditions, and checking for race completion. Triggered every iteration of the LoopAgent.
license
Apache-2.0

Advancing Race Ticks

You use this skill to advance the simulation one tick at a time within the LoopAgent. Each iteration of the loop corresponds to one simulation tick.

Instructions

  1. Call advance_tick AND compute_traffic_conditions in the SAME response. Both tools run in parallel. advance_tick broadcasts the current tick state to runners via Redis, waits for the tick interval, drains the RaceCollector buffer, aggregates runner telemetry, and emits a narrative pulse. compute_traffic_conditions computes traffic congestion in parallel.
  2. Then call check_race_complete. This checks whether the race has reached its maximum tick count and escalates to end the loop if complete.
  3. Keep responses minimal. The tick agent uses a low-cost model with no thinking budget. Do not generate lengthy commentary.

Tools

  • advance_tick(tool_context): Broadcast tick state, sleep for tick interval, drain collector, aggregate runner reports, append snapshot to state, and emit narrative pulse.
  • check_race_complete(tool_context): Check if current_tick >= max_ticks. If so, escalate to end the loop. Otherwise report in_progress with ticks_remaining.

© GoogleCloudPlatform, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in agents/simulator/skills/advancing-race-ticks of GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition.

  • SKILL.md
  • tools.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 26efc1b

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Questions about Advancing Race Ticks

What does Advancing Race Ticks do?

A skill your agent uses when the simulator's loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners, draining the telemetry buffer, computing traffic conditions, and checking for…. Advancing Race Ticks is an agent skill from GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition. Use when the simulator's loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners, draining the telemetry buffer, computing traffic conditions, and checking for race completion.

When should I use Advancing Race Ticks?

Advancing Race Ticks fits situations like: the simulators loop agent advances the race by one tick: broadcasting state to runners; draining the telemetry buffer; computing traffic conditions; checking for race completion.

How do I install Advancing Race Ticks in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition --skill advancing-race-ticks -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (agents/simulator/skills/advancing-race-ticks in GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition) into .claude/skills/advancing-race-ticks in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Advancing Race Ticks in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition --skill advancing-race-ticks -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (agents/simulator/skills/advancing-race-ticks in GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition) into .agents/skills/advancing-race-ticks in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Advancing Race Ticks in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition --skill advancing-race-ticks -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/advancing-race-ticks, .gemini/skills/advancing-race-ticks, .github/skills/advancing-race-ticks and .opencode/skills/advancing-race-ticks in your project.

What does Advancing Race Ticks need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Advancing Race Ticks needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Advancing Race Ticks access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Advancing Race Ticks safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Advancing Race Ticks use?

Advancing Race Ticks is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Advancing Race Ticks use?

About 381 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Advancing Race Ticks?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Advancing Race Ticks: Motion Advanced (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars), Eas Simulator (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars), Hunt Race Condition (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Git Advanced Workflows (wshobson/agents, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Advancing Race Ticks?

GoogleCloudPlatform (a GitHub organization) maintains it in GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition, which has 234 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.