Dead Ends

Dead Ends is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by karanb192 in claude-code-hooks.

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Install Dead Ends

Copy Dead Ends into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/karanb192/claude-code-hooks/tree/main/plugins/dead-end-registry/skills/dead-ends ~/.claude/skills/dead-ends

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/karanb192/claude-code-hooks.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/dead-end-registry/skills/dead-ends/SKILL.md in karanb192/claude-code-hooks
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/dead-ends
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Dead Ends does

Dead Ends lists approaches that were tried and then abandoned, with the reason each was walked back and the estimated token cost. Use it to summarize prior detours and avoid repeating them.

Dead Ends is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Dead Ends comes from a repository tagged ai-tools, anthropic, automation, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Dead ends

!node "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../dead-end-registry.js" --render 2>/dev/null || node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/dead-end-registry.js" --render

The list above is this repository's recorded dead ends: approaches that were tried and then reverted or ruled out, newest first, each with the date it was tried, why it was walked back, and the estimated token cost of the detour. It is produced by the dead-end-registry hook, which mines your transcripts as you work.

Briefly summarize the 1-3 most relevant entries and, if any bear on what the user is currently doing, gently flag that they have been down this road before. If the list is empty, just say so. Keep it short; do not re-run any commands.

Frequently asked about Dead Ends

What else does karanb192 publish alongside Dead Ends?
Dead Ends is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from karanb192/claude-code-hooks, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Bounty Board, Leaderboard and Provenance. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dead Ends does, and is maintained by karanb192 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the karanb192/claude-code-hooks page.
How does Dead Ends compare to other Writing skills?
Dead Ends ranks #828 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Dead Ends against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.