ci-leg-skipping-moves-minutes-it-does-not-remove-them SKILL.md skillA
ci-leg-skipping-moves-minutes-it-does-not-remove-them from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/ci-leg-skipping-moves-minutes-it-does-not-remove-them@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control
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plugins/agent-traffic-control/skills/ci-leg-skipping-moves-minutes-it-does-not-remove-them/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 11, 2026
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- 3
- License
- MIT
You are about to propose, price or approve a CI cost saving that works by making a job or matrix leg SKIP on pull requests — a path filter, a safe list, a changed-files gate, an exemption list. Check first whether the pipeline runs a complement or backstop on merge, on push, or nightly: many do, and then the legs a pull request skipped are exactly the legs some later run executes, so a branch that goes green once and merges bills the same total either way and the wall clock does not move at all.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Skipping a CI Leg Moves Its Minutes, It Does Not Delete Them ## Problem The bill is too high, so someone proposes the obvious fix: this job does not need to run on this kind of change, so filter it out and save its minutes. The reasoning is clean, the change is small, and it is usually wrong. **A leg removed from the pull-request run is not a leg removed from the bill if the pipeline runs it somewhere else.** Many pipelines deliberately carry a backstop: the merge or push run executes the COMPLEMENT of what the pull-request run skipped, precisely so that a wrong filter cannot make a leg stop running anywhere. Under that design the minutes are redistributed, not deleted. **For a branch that is made ready once and merges, the total is unchanged.** The saving exists only from the SECOND ready run onward, and its size is: ``` saving = (ready runs − 1) × the skipped legs' minutes ``` So a change that looks like "we no longer pay for this leg" is really "we pay for this leg once per merge instead of once per ready run", and on a branch that lands first time those are the same number. **And on wall clock it usually saves nothing at all.** Matrix legs run in …
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How to install
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/ci-leg-skipping-moves-minutes-it-does-not-remove-them@sha256:3d7be73e5006e142The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
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