continue-on-fallback SKILL.md skillA
continue-on-fallback from haiggoh/free-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add haiggoh/free-agents/continue-on-fallback@git:20261031.530a28ePins git:20261031.530a28e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- haiggoh/free-agents
- Path
skills/continue-on-fallback/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261031.530a28e, committed Oct 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 13, 2026
- Size
- 4,444 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use WHEN work must keep moving but the current model is unavailable — the cloud budget is exhausted, the local model is down, or a session is dying and needs to hand off. Triggered by a budget wall, a dead local endpoint, or the need to preserve in-flight work for another agent. Do NOT use for a normal in-budget turn, for choosing between equally-available models, or for verifying already-produced output (that is verify-delegated-work).
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
# continue-on-fallback — keep the work moving past a dead lane You are mid-work and the lane you were running on just stopped: the cloud budget is spent, the local MLX endpoint died, or the context is too large to continue. The goal is to **keep producing** on whatever lane is actually available — local first, then an explicitly-approved remote free allowance — and, if you must stop, to leave a handoff that another agent can resume exactly where you stopped. ## Decide the routing mode from the situation, not from habit Pick the mode that matches what actually stopped. Local is free and private; remote is the emergency, and it is your data leaving the machine. - **Budget spent, local MLX alive** → `local-first-free`. Local does the work for $0; a remote free tier is the backup only if local fails for a clean reason. - **Budget spent, local MLX also dead** → `remote-free-only` (a remote free allowance is the only thing left that isn't spending a dollar). - **You will genuinely stop and resume later** → build a handoff (below) *before* the context is too large to carry the state. Default to the least-permissive mode that still makes progress. Do not reach for …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add haiggoh/free-agents/continue-on-fallback@sha256:4d26683f7cdc5d58The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.530a28e, 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_pb5vxv7nm6s5hawl)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 13, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 48 days.
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| git:20261031.530a28e latest | 2026-10-31 | 530a28e | 4,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.7fe0005 | 2026-09-13 | 7fe0005 | 4,237 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4444 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
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- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
haiggoh/free-agents · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pb5vxv7nm6s5hawl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=haiggoh/free-agents/continue-on-fallback GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4d26683f7cdc5d584bc656fe93e6e78c4f41e013ec21bacf4b82e587752a836b
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.