done-blocked

done-blocked is a skill for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reporting contract that requires an agent to finish with exactly one of two statuses: DONE or BLOCKED. A blocked report must state what was tried, why it failed, and what is needed to continue.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents report completed work, link its output, describe concrete obstacles, and identify the person, decision, file, or configuration needed to unblock progress.
Why use it?
It prevents vague handoffs such as “almost done” and makes it clear whether the next pipeline stage can proceed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps agents report completed work, link its output, describe concrete obstacles, and identify the person, decision, file, or configuration needed to unblock progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avelikiy/great_cto/done-blocked
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.

Any agent
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill done-blocked
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,344 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01344
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00672
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00134

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3f1fd13c12e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

done-blocked 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 7d 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.

skills/done-blocked/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DONE / BLOCKED Reporting Contract

Terminal status is exactly two states, and BLOCKED requires specific evidence — not vague obstruction reports.

The contract

Every agent's final handoff line is one of:

DONE: <one-sentence summary of what shipped>
  artifact: <path to report/PR/commit>
  next: <who picks this up — pipeline stage, gate, or "pipeline continues">
BLOCKED: <one-sentence summary of the obstacle>
  tried: <what was attempted — file paths, commands, error signatures>
  failed_because: <concrete reason — not "unclear", not "complex">
  need: <specific unblock — file access, missing config, CTO decision, another agent>

Hard rules

  1. No third state. "Mostly done", "done with caveats", "almost there" → choose. If caveats exist, the caveat itself decides:

    • Caveat is cosmetic / P2+ → DONE (file a Beads bug, move on)
    • Caveat blocks the next pipeline stage → BLOCKED (do not pretend)
  2. BLOCKED requires three fields. tried + failed_because + need. Missing any field → the verdict is rejected and the agent must re-report. No exceptions for "obvious" cases.

  3. Silence is not DONE. If the agent stops producing output without a terminal line, the parent / next stage treats it as BLOCKED with failed_because: silent — no terminal verdict written.

  4. failed_because must be concrete. These are rejected:

    • "environment issue" → say which command failed with what error
    • "tests failing" → say which tests and the actual assertion message
    • "unclear requirements" → say which decision is needed and the two options
    • "not enough context" → say which file / doc / config you tried to read
  5. need names a specific unblock. These are rejected:

    • "more information" → ask one specific question
    • "help from another agent" → name the agent (architect / security-officer / …)
    • "CTO approval" → state the exact choice (approve gate X, pick option A vs B, waive check)

Where the verdict goes

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 7d ago First seen · 114 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 3f1fd13c12e3

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done-blocked is a skill published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (92 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,344 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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