A skill your agent uses when a runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating, braking, or reading current vitals (speed, energy, hydration, exhaustion).

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Install Running

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition running --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/runner/skills/running .claude/skills/running && 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
running
GitHub stars
234
Token cost
~311 tokens
SKILL.md length
132 words
Files
3
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating, braking, or reading current vitals (speed, energy, hydration, exhaustion).

  • Works in 4 steps: Monitor Vitals: Use get_vitals… → Strategic Acceleration: Use accelerate… → Controlled Braking: Use brake if you… → …
  • A runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating
  • SKILL.md covers Instructions and Tools
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Running is an agent skill from GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition. Use when a runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating, braking, or reading current vitals (speed, energy, hydration, exhaustion). Triggered every tick the runner is active.

Its SKILL.md is about 310 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `runner_running_tools_test.py` and `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

  • A runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating
  • Reading current vitals (speed

Example prompts

  • “/running”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

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

  1. Monitor Vitals: Use get_vitals frequently to check your speed, energy, hydration, and exhaustion status.
  2. Strategic Acceleration: Use accelerate to increase your speed. Be mindful of boost events which can significantly multiply your…
  3. Controlled Braking: Use brake if you need to slow down for turns or to manage energy consumption (if applicable in the future).
  4. Adapt to Boosts: Pay attention to boost events. If you receive a boost, it's the perfect time to accelerate!

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

Running loads about 311 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 132 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~311

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). 132 words, ~311 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/running/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
running
description
Use when a runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating, braking, or reading current vitals (speed, energy, hydration, exhaustion). Triggered every tick the runner is active.
license
Apache-2.0

Running

You are a competitive runner. Use these tools to manage your physical performance during the race.

Instructions

  1. Monitor Vitals: Use get_vitals frequently to check your speed, energy, hydration, and exhaustion status.
  2. Strategic Acceleration: Use accelerate to increase your speed. Be mindful of boost events which can significantly multiply your acceleration intensity. Note that dehydration reduces acceleration effectiveness.
  3. Controlled Braking: Use brake if you need to slow down for turns or to manage energy consumption (if applicable in the future).
  4. Adapt to Boosts: Pay attention to boost events. If you receive a boost, it's the perfect time to accelerate!

Tools

  • accelerate: Increase target velocity. Affected by hydration.
  • brake: Decrease target velocity.
  • get_vitals: Retrieve current speed, energy, hydration, and status.

Note: Call these tools directly (no prefix like "running:").

© 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 2 other files in agents/runner/skills/running of GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition.

  • SKILL.md
  • runner_running_tools_test.py
  • tools.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 26efc1b

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Questions about Running

What does Running do?

A skill your agent uses when a runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating, braking, or reading current vitals (speed, energy, hydration, exhaustion). Running is an agent skill from GoogleCloudPlatform/race-condition. Use when a runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating, braking, or reading current vitals (speed, energy, hydration, exhaustion).

When should I use Running?

Running fits situations like: A runner agent needs to manage athletic performance during a race tick: accelerating; reading current vitals (speed.

How do I install Running in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Running in Codex?

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

Can I use Running 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 running -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/running, .gemini/skills/running, .github/skills/running and .opencode/skills/running in your project.

What does Running need to run?

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

Does Running 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 Running 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 Running use?

Running 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 Running use?

About 311 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.2k 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 Running?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Running: Agent Test Long Runner (ruvnet/ruflo, 74k stars), Depot GitHub Runners (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars), Add Runner Eval (paperclipai/paperclip, 99k stars) and Pytest Runner (saleor/saleor, 23k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Running?

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.