hotfix

hotfix is a skill for Claude Code from nexus-substrate/nexus-agents. It costs 42 tokens per session (809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for fixing critical problems in a live application, such as security vulnerabilities or bugs that stop core functions from working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a hotfix branch from the latest release, implement and test the fix, merge it, publish a patch release, and roll back if needed.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide when an issue needs an emergency release and keeps the fix limited to the necessary changes. It also includes checks and rollback guidance to reduce release risk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the nexus-agents plugin — 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/hotfix
Any agent
npx skills add nexus-substrate/nexus-agents --skill hotfix
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nexus-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for hotfix

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/hotfix.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/hotfix)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/hotfix"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/hotfix.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 809 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00809
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00081

Measured 6d ago against content hash b6c6a3e0bcaf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hotfix 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 6d 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/hotfix/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hotfix Skill

Hotfix Criteria (ALL must be true)

  • Issue is in production (deployed, not development branch)
  • Issue prevents core functionality (not feature degradation)
  • Fix cannot wait for next release cycle
  • Issue affects active users or critical systems

If criteria not met: Use the bug-fix skill instead.

Workflow

  1. Create branch from latest release tag:

    git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -5  # Find latest tag
    git checkout -b hotfix/<issue>-description <latest-tag>
    
  2. Implement fix with minimal changes — no refactoring, no extras

  3. Fast-track review: Security label + P1 = single-reviewer approval sufficient

  4. Quality gates:

    pnpm lint && pnpm typecheck && pnpm test
    
  5. Merge to main AND cherry-pick to release branch

  6. Immediate release with patch version bump:

    # Add changeset for patch bump
    pnpm changeset  # select patch
    git add . && git commit -m "chore: changeset for hotfix"
    git push origin main --tags
    # CI handles npm publish via OIDC trusted publishing
    # Or trigger manually: gh workflow run publish.yml
    

Rollback (if needed)

npm unpublish nexus-agents@<version>  # Within 72 hours only
git tag -d v<version> && git push --delete origin v<version>

Anti-rationalization — Hotfix

Excuse Counter
"Skip tests, it's an emergency" A hotfix without tests becomes the next regression. Add at least the failing-test-then-fix (Prove-It Pattern).
"Bypass the lint gate just this once" Hotfix bypass is the most expensive shortcut: the next change you ship inherits the broken state. Lint stays.
"Skip the PR review, just push" Hotfix PR review can be quick (one trusted reviewer + admin merge), but the second pair of eyes catches the wrong-fix-for-the-symptom mistake.
"Roll forward later, no need for proper rollback plan" Production users can't wait. Either the hotfix works or there's a rollback plan; "we'll figure it out" is not a plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 6d ago First seen · 86 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A b6c6a3e0bcaf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hotfix is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexus-substrate/nexus-agents (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 809 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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