Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill when-stuckgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00022 | $0.00503 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00251 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00101 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch 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 12d 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.
What it actually says
When Stuck — Problem-Solving Dispatch
Overview
Different stuck-types need different techniques. This skill helps you quickly identify which problem-solving skill to use.
Core principle: Match stuck-symptom to technique.
Stuck-Type → Technique
| How You're Stuck | Use This Skill |
|---|---|
| Complexity spiraling — Same thing 5+ ways, growing special cases | simplification-cascades/SKILL.md |
| Need innovation — Conventional solutions inadequate, can't find fitting approach | collision-zone-thinking/SKILL.md |
| Recurring patterns — Same issue different places, reinventing wheels | meta-pattern-recognition/SKILL.md |
| Forced by assumptions — "Must be done this way", can't question premise | inversion-exercise/SKILL.md |
| Scale uncertainty — Will it work in production? Edge cases unclear? | scale-game/SKILL.md |
| Multiple independent problems — Can parallelize investigation | Use Agent tool with parallel subagents |
Process
- Identify stuck-type — What symptom matches above?
- Load that skill — Read the specific technique
- Apply technique — Follow its process
- If still stuck — Try different technique or combine
Combining Techniques
Some problems need multiple techniques:
- Simplification + Meta-pattern: Find pattern, then simplify all instances
- Collision + Inversion: Force metaphor, then invert its assumptions
- Scale + Simplification: Extremes reveal what to eliminate
Quick Dispatch
Same thing implemented 5+ ways? → simplification-cascades
Can't find fitting approach? → collision-zone-thinking
Same issue in 3+ different places? → meta-pattern-recognition
"This must be done this way"? → inversion-exercise
Will this survive production scale? → scale-game
Remember
- Match symptom to technique
- One technique at a time
- Combine if first doesn't work
- Document what you tried
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 58 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 0b6bcc7ecafb
When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch is a skill published in the GitHub repository huuanh20/awesome-ai-agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 503 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 2026-08-31.
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