Circuit breaker
SkillMonitoring & opsBreak a failed implementation loop by tracing attempts, identifying the real blocker, and proposing a materially different direction before further changes. Use when repeated fixes or investigations are not converging.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Circuit breaker skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by btseytlin/ultrapack in skills/step-back/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Stop the current approach. Do not make another fix until the user confirms a new direction.
- State the user-facing goal in one sentence.
- List the last three to five attempts and what failed in each.
- Name the common root issue in one sentence: an invalid assumption, unsupported capability, architectural constraint, or needless complexity.
- Propose a genuinely different approach, why it avoids the blocker, and its risks or trade-offs.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 47
- Forks
- 12
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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step-back- Source
- github.com/btseytlin/ultrapack