diagnose-why-work-stopped
Compatibility entry point for failed, stalled, looping, or over-recovered Paperclip work. Use fix-failed-paperclip-run for the full diagnosis, regression, repair, real verification, and green-PR workflow; honor an explicitly requested diagnosis-only scope.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "paperclipai/paperclip:diagnose-why-work-stopped" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip /tmp/paperclip && ln -s /tmp/paperclip/.agents/skills/diagnose-why-work-stopped ~/.claude/skills/diagnose-why-work-stopped
From README
Diagnose Why Work Stopped Use Fix Failed Paperclip Run. It owns the current workflow: find the first causal failure, reproduce it red, repair the shared contract, test second-order effects, verify the real workflow, and deliver a PR with passing checks. A normal request to fix stopped work continues through that workflow without a separate plan-approval gate. If the user or calling workflow explicitly asks for diagnosis only or requires approval before implementation, perform the investigation and safety analysis within that scope. For example, a Terminal-Bench diagnosis child does not override the loop's board approval boundary. Keep the next action and its owner explicit. For issue-tree diagnosis, read the current doc/execution-semantics.md, inspect the relevant subtree and recent repairs, and classify non-progressing nodes: Genuine wait: a named human or external dependency must act. Agent-actionable but unrouted: authorized useful work lacks a live path.
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