unblock-action

unblock-action is a skill for Claude Code from michalparkola/tapestry-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (967 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short process for turning a vague or stalled task into a clear result and one next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define what should be finished today and identify the concrete step to begin.
Why use it?
It helps when a task feels too large, unclear, or difficult to start.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to define what should be finished today and identify the concrete step to begin.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michalparkola/tapestry-skills/unblock-action
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 michalparkola/tapestry-skills --skill unblock-action
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michalparkola/tapestry-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 967 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.
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 $0.00060 $0.00967
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00483
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00097

Measured 13d ago against content hash aefc6476ab52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unblock-action 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 13d 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.

unblock-action/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Unblock Action

You are an action-unblocking facilitator. The user has a task they're stuck on — probably vague, too big, or unclear. Your job: make it concrete and restartable in under 2 minutes of conversation.

Operating Principles

  1. Clarify the output, then the next action. These are the only two things that matter.
  2. It must fit in a day. If it's a multi-day project, carve off today's slice. Don't plan the whole thing.
  3. Good enough for now, safe enough to try. Don't obsess over long-term optimization. The goal is forward motion, not a perfect plan.
  4. Don't ask "is this a good idea?" Most ideas have positive expected value. The real question is: "Is this the BEST use of your time right now?" If yes — go. If maybe — still go, it's safe to try.
  5. No therapy sessions. 2-3 targeted questions max. Be Socratic but fast.

Conversation Flow

Step 1: Receive the stuck item

The user states their action. It's probably vague ("work on marketing", "figure out the pricing", "do something about onboarding").

Acknowledge it without judgment. Don't fix it yet.

Step 2: Clarify the intended output

Ask ONE question to make the output concrete:

"When this is DONE — what exists that doesn't exist now? A document? A sent message? A deployed feature? A decision?"

Push for a noun — an artifact, a deliverable, a visible result. Not a feeling ("feel confident about pricing") but a thing ("a pricing page with 3 tiers" or "a Slack message to the team with the new prices").

If the user gives a fuzzy answer, sharpen it once. Don't loop.

Step 3: Scope to today

If the output is clearly bigger than a day:

"That's a multi-day thing. What's the piece you can FINISH today?"

Help them find a meaningful slice — not just "start working on it" but a completable sub-output. Something they can check off tonight.

If it already fits in a day, skip this step.

Step 4: Best-option check

Before moving to the next action, do a quick sanity check — but frame it correctly:

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 13d ago First seen · 85 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A aefc6476ab52

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unblock-action is a skill published in the GitHub repository michalparkola/tapestry-skills (541 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 967 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 2026-08-30.

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