touch_file

A recovery skill for creating a new file when a Write or Edit operation fails because the file or its parent directory is missing or inaccessible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a failed attempt to create a new file due to missing directories, permissions, or a file-not-found error. It is not intended for ordinary edits to existing files.
Why use it?
It addresses file-creation errors that prevent an agent from making a new file.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add trtmn/agent-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/trtmn/agent-plugins/touch_file
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/trtmn/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

touch_file 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.

plugins/touch_file/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 6 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "touch_file",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Recovery strategy when the Write tool fails to create a new file. Use this skill whenever a Write or Edit tool call fails with an error related to creating a new file — such as missing parent directories, permission issues, or \"file not found\" errors on files that don't exist yet. This skill does NOT apply to editing existing files that fail for other reasons. Trigger when you see Write/Edit errors on new file creation, when file creation fails unexpectedly, or when you get path-related errors trying to create files in nested directories."
}
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 · 6 lines scan A 824b0235f651

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touch_file is a plugin published in the GitHub repository trtmn/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Unlicense. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-08-31.