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detect-a-runaway-child-loop

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By jiayaoqijia/cryptoskill (GitHub) · other · 81 stars · scanned at commit 0dc9f60

Use when a subagent may be repeating work — retrying the same failure, cycling steps, or re-reading the same input. Detects the loop by step-signature repetition and breaks it before the budget is gone.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'detect-a-runaway-child-loop' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'detect-a-runaway-child-loop' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named detect-a-runaway-child-loop already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jiayaoqijia/cryptoskill' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '0dc9f60ab1f3fcae24da49c4cef09c46c589f903' -- 'skills/payments/0xklen-detect-a-runaway-child-loop' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/payments/0xklen-detect-a-runaway-child-loop' ~/.agents/skills/'detect-a-runaway-child-loop' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'detect-a-runaway-child-loop' ~/.claude/skills/'detect-a-runaway-child-loop' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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