hotfix

hotfix is a command for coding agents from MartyBonacci/specswarm. It costs 9 tokens per session (2,904 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An emergency software-development workflow for urgent production problems such as critical bugs, security issues, data loss, or service outages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coordinate and resolve serious live-system problems quickly, with optional integration with SpecSwarm and SpecTest when those are installed.
Why use it?
It reduces process overhead during an incident while still requiring basic safety checks, a rollback plan, communication, and a later review.

Command

Part of the ss plugin — 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/martybonacci/specswarm/hotfix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm

Or install ss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for hotfix

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/martybonacci/specswarm/hotfix.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/martybonacci/specswarm/hotfix)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/martybonacci/specswarm/hotfix"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/martybonacci/specswarm/hotfix.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 2,904 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 $0.02904
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00290

Measured 3d ago against content hash 982989387877, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hotfix 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 3d ago.

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.

plugins/ss/commands/hotfix.md · 480 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 480 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Goal

Execute expedited emergency response workflow for critical production issues requiring immediate resolution.

Key Principles:

  1. Speed First: Minimal process overhead, maximum velocity
  2. Safety: Despite speed, maintain essential safeguards
  3. Rollback Ready: Always have rollback plan
  4. Post-Mortem: After fire is out, analyze and learn
  5. Communication: Keep stakeholders informed

Use Cases: Critical bugs, security vulnerabilities, data corruption, service outages

Coverage: Addresses ~10-15% of development work (emergencies)


Smart Integration Detection

# Check for SpecSwarm (tech stack enforcement) - OPTIONAL in hotfix
SPECSWARM_INSTALLED=$(claude plugin list | grep -q "specswarm" && echo "true" || echo "false")

# Check for SpecTest (parallel execution, hooks, metrics)
SPECTEST_INSTALLED=$(claude plugin list | grep -q "spectest" && echo "true" || echo "false")

# In hotfix mode, integration is OPTIONAL - speed is priority
if [ "$SPECTEST_INSTALLED" = "true" ]; then
  ENABLE_METRICS=true
  echo "🎯 SpecTest detected (metrics enabled, but minimal overhead)"
fi

if [ "$SPECSWARM_INSTALLED" = "true" ]; then
  TECH_VALIDATION_AVAILABLE=true
  echo "🎯 SpecSwarm detected (tech validation available if time permits)"
fi

Note: In hotfix mode, speed takes precedence. Tech validation and hooks are OPTIONAL.


Pre-Workflow Hook (if SpecTest installed)

if [ "$ENABLE_METRICS" = "true" ]; then
  echo "🎣 Pre-Hotfix Hook (minimal overhead mode)"
  WORKFLOW_START_TIME=$(date +%s)
  echo "✓ Emergency metrics tracking initialized"
  echo ""
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 480 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. 3d ago First seen · 480 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 982989387877

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hotfix is a command published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 2,904 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.