imPACT

A blocker-triage command for deciding what to do when another coding task cannot continue. It examines whether the previous work should be repeated, specialist help is needed, or the user must provide input.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect the blocked task, diagnose the cause, delegate a resolution task when appropriate, or identify the information needed to continue.
Why use it?
It prevents a blocked task from remaining stuck without identifying a clear resolution path.

Command

Part of the pact-plugin plugin — 21 skills, 13 commands, 13 agents, 11 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/synaptic-labs-ai/pact-plugin/impact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin

Or install pact-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 13 commands, 13 agents, 11 hooks.

Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,449 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 $0.00014 $0.02449
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01224
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00245

Measured 3d ago against content hash cbb730ee0a92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

imPACT 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.

pact-plugin/commands/imPACT.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You hit a blocker: $ARGUMENTS


Task Operations

imPACT operates on blocker Tasks reported by agents.

These are orchestrator-side operations (agents report blockers via SendMessage to the team-lead; the orchestrator manages Tasks):

1. `TaskGet(blocker_id)` — understand the blocker context
2. Triage: redo prior phase? need specialist? need user?
3. On resolution path chosen:
   - If delegating: `TaskCreate` resolution agent task
   - If self-resolving: proceed directly
4. On resolution complete: `TaskUpdate(blocker_id, status="completed")`
5. Blocked agent task is now unblocked

Note: Agents report blockers via SendMessage to the team-lead ("BLOCKER: {description}"). The orchestrator creates blocker Tasks and uses addBlockedBy to block the agent's task. When the blocker is resolved (marked completed), the agent's task becomes unblocked.


Core Principle: Diagnose, Don't Fix

Your role is triage, not implementation. Even if you know exactly what's wrong and how to fix it:

  1. Diagnose — Identify what went wrong (upstream issue? scope mismatch? missing context?)
  2. Determine — Who should fix it (which specialist?)
  3. Delegate — What do they need (additional context, parallel support?)

Knowing the fix ≠ permission to implement it.

Common traps to avoid:

  • "I can see exactly what's wrong" — Great diagnosis. Now delegate the fix.
  • "Re-delegating seems wasteful" — Role boundaries matter more than perceived efficiency.
  • "It's just a small change" — Small changes are still application code. Delegate.

VSM Context: S3 Operational Triage

imPACT is S3-level triage—operational problem-solving within normal workflow. It is NOT S5 algedonic escalation (emergency bypass to user).

imPACT handles: Blockers that can be resolved by redoing a phase or adding agents.

Algedonic escalation handles: Viability threats (security, data, ethics violations). See algedonic.md.

Escalation indicator: If you run 3+ consecutive imPACT cycles without resolution, this may indicate a systemic issue requiring user intervention (proto-algedonic signal).

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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 · 166 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A cbb730ee0a92

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imPACT is a command published in the GitHub repository Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin (71 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,449 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.