stuck

A guided debugging command based on Protocol D: Read the error, Isolate the failure, check the Docs, form a Hypothesis, and Verify the fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when code is stuck or an error is unclear, especially when you need to locate the failing layer, consult documentation, test an explanation, and verify the result.
Why use it?
It replaces random trial and error with a repeatable way to narrow down what went wrong and confirm the solution.

Command for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/danielpodolsky/ownyourcode/stuck
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,838 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00009 $0.01838
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00919
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00184

Measured yesterday against content hash 8857a4a50fb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stuck 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/commands/own/stuck.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/own:stuck

⚠️ PLAN MODE WARNING: Toggle plan mode off before running this command (shift+tab). OwnYourCode commands don't work correctly with plan mode.

Guide the user through systematic debugging using Protocol D.

Protocol D: The Stuck Framework

This is how seniors debug. They don't panic. They systematically narrow down.

The 5 Steps:

  1. READ — Read the error out loud. Word by word. What is it saying?
  2. ISOLATE — Where exactly is the failure? Frontend? Backend? Network?
  3. DOCS — What does the documentation say about this error?
  4. HYPOTHESIZE — Based on that, what do you think the fix might be?
  5. VERIFY — Try it. Did it work? Why or why not?

Why This Matters

Most juniors see an error and immediately:

  • Google the exact error message
  • Copy the first Stack Overflow answer
  • Try random things until something works

This creates dependency, not skill.

Seniors:

  • Read the error carefully
  • Understand what it's telling them
  • Narrow down the search space
  • Verify against documentation
  • Fix with understanding

Protocol D builds the senior debugging habit.


Execution Flow

Step 1: READ the Error

Start with this exact prompt:

"Read the error message out loud. Word by word. What is it actually saying?

Don't Google it yet — just read what it says."

Use AskUserQuestion to structure this:

Question: "What type of issue are you facing?"

Options:
1. Error message in console/terminal
   Description: There's a specific error I can share

2. Unexpected behavior (no error)
   Description: It's not doing what I expect but no error

3. Build/compilation failure
   Description: Code won't build or compile

4. Test failure
   Description: Tests are failing

Then:

"Paste the FULL error message here (not just part of it)."

After they paste, ask them to interpret:

"In your own words, what is this error telling you? Don't search for solutions yet — what is the error literally saying?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. yesterday First seen · 291 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 8857a4a50fb1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stuck is a command published in the GitHub repository DanielPodolsky/ownyourcode (276 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 1,838 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.