mav-block-propagation

mav-block-propagation is a skill for Claude Code from thermiteau/maverick. It costs 54 tokens per session (801 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-based process that marks every downstream story as blocked when an earlier story in an epic cannot proceed. An epic is a larger body of work made up of linked stories, and downstream stories depend on earlier ones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a pull request is ejected to propagate a blocked-by marker and comment through all dependent stories. It also updates their epic status and can resume an interrupted walk through the dependency graph.
Why use it?
It prevents developers or agents from building on a change that has been rejected or ejected for human handling. It can resume after a crash and avoids applying the same block more than once.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the maverick plugin — 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after a pull request is ejected to propagate a blocked-by marker and comment through all dependent stories. It also updates their epic status and can resume an interrupted walk through the dependency graph.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thermiteau/maverick/mav-block-propagation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add thermiteau/maverick --skill mav-block-propagation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thermiteau/maverick

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install maverick, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 801 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 $0.00054 $0.00801
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00400
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00080

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9801df746545, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mav-block-propagation 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 12d 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/mav-block-propagation/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Block Propagation

When an agent-code-reviewer ejects a PR for human handling, every downstream story that depended on it is transitively broken. Without propagation, downstream stories keep branching off and stacking on top of a broken base, producing PRs that cannot merge or merge into a broken tree. The blocked-by:#N label is the mechanism that stops every instance from trying.

Running a propagation

The entire marker-write-walk-clear protocol is one idempotent, resumable CLI command:

uv run maverick bprop run <repo> <epic> --ejected <story>

It writes the maverick-bprop marker on the epic, walks the DAG's transitive descendants of the ejected story, applies blocked-by:#<story> and posts a block comment on each (skipping any already labelled), mirrors each story to blocked in the epic state, and deletes the marker when the walk completes. Re-running after a crash resumes exactly where the walk stopped — never perform the walk by hand.

If cold-start hydration finds a maverick-bprop marker on the epic, a prior instance died mid-walk: re-run the command above with the marker's ejected story before any other epic work. A partially-applied block set invites downstream PRs to merge against a broken base.

Cancelling in-flight subagents

A block is useless if a subagent is already deep into a now-blocked story. After the walk:

  1. Check .maverick/worktrees/ for any worktree whose branch refers to a now-blocked story.
  2. For each: stop the subagent, release its claim (see mav-multi-instance-coordination), do not push its work.
  3. Destroy the worktree. Do not attempt to salvage in-progress work — the base is broken; the work cannot be preserved usefully.

Block-on-entry checks

Three places must re-check block state at entry:

Location Check Behaviour on block
Cold-start target resolution Target has blocked-by:#N? Abort cleanly — report to user
Wave selection Story has blocked-by:#N? Exclude from wave
Per-story re-verify (just before coding) Story gained blocked-by:#N since wave start? Abort story; release claim

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 12d ago First seen · 80 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9801df746545

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mav-block-propagation is a skill published in the GitHub repository thermiteau/maverick (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 801 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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