diagnose-dead-global-hotkey SKILL.md skillA
diagnose-dead-global-hotkey from terrylica/cc-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/diagnose-dead-global-hotkey@git:20261015.0bb8d99Pins git:20261015.0bb8d99 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- terrylica/cc-skills
- Path
plugins/macro-keyboard/skills/diagnose-dead-global-hotkey/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261015.0bb8d99, committed Oct 15, 2026
- Size
- 11,539 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Find out why a macOS global hotkey (screenshot tool, launcher, clipboard manager) stops working only while a particular app is frontmost or running, typically a remote-desktop or VNC viewer, a VM or a game. Traces a REAL key press through the four event-tap positions to separate the causes - a Karabiner per-app modifier remap that rewrites the chord, an app's active keyboard grab (CGEventTap) that swallows it, Secure Event Input, or the hotkey owner itself - then applies the matching fix.…
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
# Diagnose a Dead Global Hotkey
> **Self-Evolving Skill**: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, an API or app option changed, or a workaround was needed: fix this file and the scripts immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.
A global hotkey works everywhere except while one app is in front (or full screen, or merely running). The press either does nothing or does something inside that app instead. This skill finds **where** on the input path the chord is lost or changed, then fixes that layer only.
## The input path (bottom to top)
```
keyboard ─► DriverKit remapper (Karabiner-Elements) ─► HID tap point ─► Session tap point ─► hotkey dispatch ─► frontmost app
rewrites keys BELOW every tap active taps here can swallow or rewrite (Carbon RegisterEventHotKey)
```
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add terrylica/cc-skills/diagnose-dead-global-hotkey@sha256:142945b10d6f350fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.0bb8d99, 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_3zjimmzayingidwt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 15, 2026.
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Source
terrylica/cc-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3zjimmzayingidwt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=terrylica/cc-skills/diagnose-dead-global-hotkey GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/142945b10d6f350f0d62ba05c6e49a9a83db49b1e94fd16bf4adf6c655ab4702
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