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.
npx skills add coreyhaines31/makerskills --skill unstuckgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/unstuck)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/unstuck"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/unstuck/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/unstuck"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/coreyhaines31/makerskills/unstuck.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00276 | $0.02528 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00138 | $0.01264 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00055 | $0.00506 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00253 |
Grade A, and why
unstuck 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 10d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/unstuck — The roadblock antidote
Turns "impossible" into angles. Classifies the wall, runs the right lateral-thinking techniques against it, and doesn't stop at the first mediocre workaround. Output is either a set of viable angles with next actions — or an honest "this wall is load-bearing, reroute the goal."
Two modes:
- User-invoked — someone is stuck and asks. Full 7-step workflow below.
- Agent fast path — YOU (the agent) hit the wall mid-task. See Agent fast path — run it before telling the user something can't be done.
The mental model: walls have types, and the type picks the crowbar
"Impossible" is a claim, not a fact. It almost always decompiles into something weaker: expensive, against the rules, nobody's done it, I don't know how. Only actually impossible (physics, math, arithmetic) ends the session — and it ends it honestly.
| Wall type | What "impossible" actually means | Lead techniques (see references/techniques.md) |
|---|---|---|
| Assumption | An inherited belief nobody re-verified | T1 assumption autopsy, T3 first principles |
| Framing | The goal is stated in a way that excludes the answer | T4 altitude shift, T2 inversion, T5 work backwards |
| Gatekeeper | A person/org said no | T10 interrogate the no, T6 analogical transfer |
| Tool/tech | "X doesn't support Y" | T9 SCAMPER (substitute the primitive), T6 analogical transfer |
| Resource | Not enough time/money/people | T7 constraint toggling, T8 provocation |
| Physics/math | Actually impossible (rare) | Honest exit — reroute the goal, the wall is load-bearing |
Step 1 — Capture the wall
Get from the user (one structured message, don't round-trip):
- The goal — what are you ultimately trying to do? (Not the blocked step — the job it serves.)
- The wall — what exactly blocks it?
- Attempts — what have you already tried?
- The source of the no — who or what said no? Physics? A vendor's docs? A person? An error message? Your own assumption?
- Stakes + deadline — how much does breaking this wall matter, by when?
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 158 lines · 276 tokens per session scan A 8b6392d9e085
unstuck is a skill published in the GitHub repository coreyhaines31/makerskills (801 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 276 tokens to every session and 2,528 once invoked, about $0.0014 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.
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