# Fix The Fixer > Launch one durable, mutation-authorized meta-fixer to repair a failed automated fixer and its missed backstop, retrigger ordinary repair, and prove the identified epic or session advances. Use when a watchdog, repair loop, meta-repair loop, or progress auditor ran or should have run but the real chain stayed stuck, repeated stale evidence, claimed false success, or failed to self-correct. Invoke with `--target "EPIC_OR_SESSION_TEXT"`. - Skill: `peteromallet/fix-the-fixer` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 4 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add peteromallet/fix-the-fixer` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/peteromallet/fix-the-fixer/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: peteromallet (https://skillmd.com/u/peteromallet) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/peteromallet/fix-the-fixer --- # Fix the fixer Repair the repair system, not the epic symptom. Keep the failed fixer and the meta-fixer as distinct processes so the repair has independent custody and cannot certify itself. ## Invoke Require one non-empty text flag: ```text $fix-the-fixer --target "custody-control-plane-20260714 / m6-exact-contract-and-20260716-1303" ``` Render the implementation goal before launch: ```bash python "/scripts/render_goal.py" --target "" ``` Reject an absent or blank `--target`. Preserve the text exactly as target orientation; require the agent to resolve canonical IDs and current state from durable evidence rather than treating the flag as proof. ## Compose the existing guidance Read and apply `../superfixer-debug/SKILL.md` for the custody walk, four axes, failure shapes, sibling hunt, and close-the-loop method. When the target is a cloud session, also use `$megaplan-cloud` for supported status and repair transport. This skill overrides `superfixer-debug` only in these ways: - Launch exactly one implementation/recovery agent. Do not fan out or let that agent delegate further agents. - Use the current authorization envelope. Never infer push, deployment, restart, broad process control, or direct epic-state mutation authority from the desire to recover the epic. - Prefer the current supported resident/cloud commands and receipts over old literal host, branch, wrapper-copy, or process commands in historical text. Read [historical-runs.md](references/historical-runs.md) when selecting prompt language, proof gates, or precedent. It separates raw artifacts from inference. ## Launch one durable meta-fixer Use the resident-managed launch boundary when available. It preserves the origin envelope, manifest, full log, result, target ref, delivery ownership, and restart-safe continuation. Pass the rendered goal as the task; classify it as execution, git-backed when source repair is possible, and D8-D10/high. Preserve the caller's existing synthesis/delivery role instead of inventing a second user-facing owner. If the agent surface supports a persistent `/goal` API, create the rendered goal in that same single agent session. Otherwise retain the leading `/goal` and terminal contract in its prompt and manifest. Do not launch another session merely because a goal API is unavailable. Use a different durable launcher only when no resident boundary exists and it still provides equivalent manifest/log/result custody and inherited authority. If no durable implementation transport exists, stop at that exact gate; do not substitute an ephemeral chat or raw remote shell. Recursion guard: when the current process is already the one designated by the rendered goal, execute it directly and launch no child. ## Enforce the terminal contract Keep the one agent running through ordinary implementation and test failures. Accept success only when every applicable gate has raw evidence: 1. Resolve the canonical session/epic, current blocker occurrence, pinned resident/runtime target, installed boundary, and allowed effects. 2. Establish visibility, then apply TRACKED, FIXED, INTENT, and CONTEXT to the failed fixer and the backstop that missed it. 3. Implement the narrow fixer and backstop repair in a clean isolated worktree; preserve dirty launch checkouts, add regressions, review the diff, commit, revalidate lineage, and locally integrate only when authorized and exact. 4. Use supported transport to refresh/restart only if explicitly authorized and required. Record source-to-installed applicability and scoped receipts. 5. Retrigger the ordinary fixer. Do not hand-advance the epic, weaken a guard, or replace ordinary repair with the meta-fixer's direct workaround. 6. Prove from authoritative before/after state that the original blocker is cleared and the actual epic/session advanced beyond its frozen cursor. 7. Prove the missed L2/L3 backstop detects the same recurrence, or repair it and repeat. Distinguish a new blocker from failure of the original repair. A launch, PID, exit code, commit, green self-report, wrapper restart, or fresh heartbeat is not recovery proof. If authority or target lineage blocks a required effect, return the exact gate with the verified commit retained. ## Return evidence Report the target and blocker occurrence, first broken layer/axis, missed backstop/axis, raw run/request/attempt IDs, changed artifacts, tests, reviewed diff, base/commit/target SHAs, clean worktree, ancestry, installed applicability, ordinary retrigger receipt, and before/after epic cursor. Label raw evidence, inference, and unknowns separately. Report to the existing synthesis owner when one exists; only a top-level delivery owner may reply to the user.