fix-the-fixer

fix-the-fixer is a skill for Codex from peteromallet/Arnold. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A meta-fixer that repairs a failed automated repair process, reruns the ordinary repair, and checks whether the stalled work progresses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a watchdog, repair loop, or progress auditor has failed and the automated repair chain remains stuck.
Why use it?
It addresses repair loops that ran without fixing the underlying problem or without moving the wider task forward.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it when a watchdog, repair loop, or progress auditor has failed and the automated repair chain remains stuck.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/peteromallet/arnold/fix-the-fixer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add peteromallet/Arnold --skill fix-the-fixer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/peteromallet/Arnold

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,106 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 $0.00097 $0.01106
Opus 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00442
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00111

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9740f2def4fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fix-the-fixer 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/render_goal.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

arnold_pipelines/megaplan/skills/fix-the-fixer/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fix the fixer

Repair the repair system, not the epic symptom. Keep the failed fixer and the meta-fixer as distinct processes so the repair has independent custody and cannot certify itself.

Invoke

Require one non-empty text flag:

$fix-the-fixer --target "custody-control-plane-20260714 / m6-exact-contract-and-20260716-1303"

Render the implementation goal before launch:

python "<skill-dir>/scripts/render_goal.py" --target "<epic/session text>"

Reject an absent or blank --target. Preserve the text exactly as target orientation; require the agent to resolve canonical IDs and current state from durable evidence rather than treating the flag as proof.

Compose the existing guidance

Read and apply ../superfixer-debug/SKILL.md for the custody walk, four axes, failure shapes, sibling hunt, and close-the-loop method. When the target is a cloud session, also use $megaplan-cloud for supported status and repair transport. This skill overrides superfixer-debug only in these ways:

  • Launch exactly one implementation/recovery agent. Do not fan out or let that agent delegate further agents.
  • Use the current authorization envelope. Never infer push, deployment, restart, broad process control, or direct epic-state mutation authority from the desire to recover the epic.
  • Prefer the current supported resident/cloud commands and receipts over old literal host, branch, wrapper-copy, or process commands in historical text.

Read historical-runs.md when selecting prompt language, proof gates, or precedent. It separates raw artifacts from inference.

Launch one durable meta-fixer

Use the resident-managed launch boundary when available. It preserves the origin envelope, manifest, full log, result, target ref, delivery ownership, and restart-safe continuation. Pass the rendered goal as the task; classify it as execution, git-backed when source repair is possible, and D8-D10/high. Preserve the caller's existing synthesis/delivery role instead of inventing a second user-facing owner.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 9740f2def4fe

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fix-the-fixer is a skill published in the GitHub repository peteromallet/Arnold (98 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,106 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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