patch

A focused repair guide that changes only the parts of an artifact that failed review or testing. It records each fix as something to remove, add, or change, then retests the affected path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a review finds bugs or other defects, when you need a small, verifiable correction rather than a redesign.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that a broad rewrite will damage parts that already work. It keeps unresolved defects visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/megaprompting/torque-loop/patch
Any agent
npx skills add Megaprompting/torque-loop --skill patch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Megaprompting/torque-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 551 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 $0.00054 $0.00551
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9f4f5e3ff20e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

patch 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 2d 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/patch/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ratchet:patch — minimal delta

The temptation after criticism is to rewrite. Rewriting throws away working parts and introduces new defects. This command patches the specific failures and nothing else.

Step 0 — Load state and open defects

ratchet status
ratchet state get defects

Procedure

  1. Take the defect list as the work order. Only defects found by /ratchet:attack (or recorded in state) are in scope. If you feel the urge to change something not on the list, stop — that is scope creep, not a patch.

  2. Express each fix as a minimal delta:

    • REMOVE: what to delete.
    • ADD: what to introduce.
    • CHANGE: what to alter, from → to.
  3. Preserve everything that passed. Working parts are untouched. Prefer the smallest diff that clears the defect over the "cleaner" larger one.

  4. Retest the patched path. Run the specific 5-point test items the defect touched. Report the actual result — if a fix didn't hold, say so; do not claim green on faith.

  5. Update defect status. Resolved defects get marked; anything still failing stays open and honest.

Output contract

PATCH (per defect):
- <defect> → REMOVE: ... | ADD: ... | CHANGE: ...
PATCHED ARTIFACT: <the changed artifact or diff>
RETEST: <which checks were re-run + pass/fail>
REMAINING DEFECTS: <still-open items, or "none">

Serialize

Clear the ORIGINAL defect with the proof that it is fixed. Do not record a second, already-resolved defect: a defect cannot be born terminal (the CLI refuses it), and a freshly-minted "resolved" record leaves the real one draining forever.

ratchet defect resolve <original-defect-id> --evidence "<the retest result that proves it>"
ratchet state set phase patch
ratchet score confidence

Anything still failing stays open and honest — ratchet defect list shows what drains.

Next: if defects remain critical/high, loop back to /ratchet:attack. If clear, /ratchet:compile to serialize the advance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9f4f5e3ff20e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

patch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Megaprompting/torque-loop (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 551 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 2026-08-31.

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