Tracking And Solutions

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Ultralytics track mode
• Tracker YAML selection
• Persistent object IDs
• YOLO Solutions such as counting

Example prompts

• “/tracking-and-solutions”

Requirements

• Python 3

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Confirm the model, task, and source are tracking-compatible; classification does not support mode=track.
2. 2For direct tracking, use YOLO(...).track(source=..., tracker="botsort.yaml", stream=True, show=False) for full videos, or persist=True…
3. 3For CLI tracking, use the Ultralytics arg=value form: yolo track model=yolo26n.pt source=video.mp4 tracker=bytetrack.yaml conf=0.25.
4. 4Pick a tracker using scripts/choose_tracker.py and then tune only copied YAML values; keep tracker_type unchanged in custom tracker YAMLs.
5. 5For counting, heatmap, speed, queue, region, trackzone, similarity search, or Streamlit inference, use references/workflows.md and pass…
6. 6Check references/troubleshooting.md before advising installs, downloads, GUI display, webcam/network streams, GPU/FP16, or optional…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ac3fe1a. 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 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python

  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

Tracking And Solutions loads about 871 tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 54 tokens; SKILL.md has 254 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~54

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~871

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~5.5k

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill at commit ac3fe1a, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© VectorSpaceLab). 254 words, ~871 tokens.

name

tracking-and-solutions

description

Use for Ultralytics track mode, tracker YAML selection, persistent object IDs, and YOLO Solutions such as counting, heatmaps, speed, queue, region, similarity search, and Streamlit inference.

disable-model-invocation

true

metadata.disco-role

operating

license

AGPL 3.0

from ultralytics import YOLO

model = YOLO("yolo26n.pt")
for result in model.track(source="video.mp4", stream=True, tracker="bytetrack.yaml", conf=0.25, show=False):
    boxes = result.obb if result.obb is not None else result.boxes
    if boxes is not None and boxes.is_track:
        print(boxes.id.cpu().tolist())

results = model.track(frame, persist=True, tracker="botsort.yaml", verbose=False)

yolo solutions region source="video.mp4" model=yolo26n.pt tracker=botsort.yaml region="[(20,400),(1080,400),(1080,360),(20,360)]" show=False

python sub-skills/tracking-and-solutions/scripts/choose_tracker.py --goal reid --moving-camera --prefer-stable-ids

© VectorSpaceLab, AGPL-3.0. 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 4 other files (scripts, references) in skills/repositories/repo-skills/ultralytics/sub-skills/tracking-and-solutions of VectorSpaceLab/AREX-Skill.

• SKILL.md
• references/api-reference.md
• references/troubleshooting.md
• references/workflows.md
• scripts/choose_tracker.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ac3fe1a