unstuck SKILL.md skillA
unstuck from ribato22/vibecheck is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ribato22/vibecheck/unstuck@git:20261028.80a69d7Pins git:20261028.80a69d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ribato22/vibecheck
- Path
skills/unstuck/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261028.80a69d7, committed Oct 28, 2026
- Size
- 6,574 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Breaks the AI "fix loop", where the same bug keeps coming back, every fix breaks something else, or the agent keeps guessing. Stops editing, checkpoints the code, reproduces the bug, proves the root cause with evidence and one-change-at-a-time experiments, removes leftover failed fixes, and goes back to the last working version if that's faster. Use when the user says it's still broken, "same error again", "you keep going in circles", "nothing works", "it worked before", or after two or more…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# unstuck: break the AI fix loop Signs of a loop: the same error after two or more attempts; fixes that move the error somewhere else; edits to files unrelated to the symptom; "this should work now" without anyone seeing it work; a growing pile of try/catch, retries, `any`, `// @ts-ignore` and commented-out code. **The rule that ends loops: no more edits until you can explain the bug with evidence.** ## 1. Freeze and take stock (no code changes) - Write a short ledger: the symptom (exact error text and *where* it appears: browser console, terminal, server logs, hosting logs), each attempt so far, and what happened after it. - Run `git status` and `git diff --stat`. How much has changed since the last commit? - Offer a checkpoint: `git switch -c unstuck/<short-name>` plus a commit, so nothing is lost and you can compare. Ask first. No git? Say so: it's the #1 safety net for AI coding. Offer `git init`. ## 2. Reproduce it - Get the exact steps and the exact error. Read the **full** stack trace and find the top frame in *their* code, not the library's. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ribato22/vibecheck/unstuck@sha256:aeb6927de8adf80fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.80a69d7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2digilncogq7bljo)
3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6574 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ribato22/vibecheck · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2digilncogq7bljo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ribato22/vibecheck/unstuck GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/aeb6927de8adf80f8e7e04133c90b3f114f2298e493304ab90ef4a2287a5726a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
More from ribato22/vibecheck
Every file in ribato22/vibecheck