hotfix

An emergency software-fix workflow intended for production incidents, where a live system is malfunctioning and needs a narrowly scoped repair.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan for serious security problems, apply and smoke-test a minimal fix, create mandatory follow-up work, and record an audit trail.
Why use it?
It shortens the repair path during an incident by limiting checks and recording which normal safeguards were bypassed.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 906 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 $0.00010 $0.00906
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00091

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ef332f39e2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.agents/skills/hotfix/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: hotfix description: Emergency fix mode. Bypasses full pipeline. Smoke test only. Creates mandatory follow-up story. color: red

/hotfix — Emergency Fix Pipeline

USE ONLY FOR PRODUCTION INCIDENTS This skill bypasses gates. Every bypass is logged. Every hotfix creates follow-up debt. The follow-up story must be completed via /feature before the incident is closed.


Activation

/hotfix "null pointer crash on checkout when cart is empty"
/hotfix "login endpoint returning 500 on all OAuth callbacks"
/hotfix "memory leak causing OOM kills in the worker pool"

What This Does

/hotfix [description]

  Step 0: Declare incident + load execution context
  Step 1: Semgrep HARD BLOCK scan (secrets/SQL injection — always active)
  Step 2: Implement the minimal fix
  Step 3: Smoke test — max 2 iterations (changed files only)
  Step 4: Commit with hotfix: prefix + bypass disclosure
  Step 5: Create genesis/hotfix-followup-*.md (mandatory)
  Step 6: Write audit entry to logs/audit-trail.jsonl

Pipeline Diagram

/hotfix "description"
     │
     ▼
[Step 0] DECLARE INCIDENT ──────── Print bypass list
     │
     ▼
[Step 1] SEMGREP HARD BLOCK ──── ERROR severity only
     │                           (never bypassed, even in hotfix)
  CLEAN                      BLOCKED
     │                           │
     ▼                           └── HALT: fix security issue first
[Step 2] IMPLEMENT FIX ─────────── Minimal, no cleanup, read files first
     │
     ▼
[Step 3] SMOKE TEST ─────────────── Max 2 iterations, changed files only
     │
 PASSING                       FAILING after 2
     │                             │
     ▼                             └── Ask: --accept-failing or abort?
[Step 4] COMMIT ─────────────────── hotfix: prefix, bypass disclosure
     │
     ▼
[Step 5] FOLLOW-UP STORY ───────── genesis/hotfix-followup-*.md (MANDATORY)
     │
     ▼
[Step 6] AUDIT TRAIL ────────────── logs/audit-trail.jsonl + logs/hotfixes.md
     │
     ▼
  HOTFIX COMPLETE

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 8ef332f39e2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hotfix is a skill published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 906 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 2026-08-30.

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